Anyone tried Velvia 50 with flash for Christmas?

[dave lackey]

So, I have everything loaded with b/w film except for my Nikon AF camera. I need to finish a roll of Velvia 50 with the flash for Christmas. Has anyone tried this for indoor shooting for Christmas? I have never used slide film with a flash for indoor shots, only outdoors.

If it works, then, I need to shoot up a ton of slide film, all 100iso, Velvia/Astia/Provia....:angel:

 

[ferider]

Works great, Dave.

 

[dave lackey]

Works great, Dave.

That is what I am thinking. Instead of the on-camera fill flash, I will use the SB-24 bounced on automatic. I think the 4004s will do TTL according to the manual but never tried it. I am also using the 50mm 1.8 lens but may try the 28-105 zoom which is very sharp in its own right.🙂

 

[bob338]

I have used Velvia 50 with a Metz flash for years in my stereo cameras. It is beautiful film.

 

[HHPhoto]

Hi Dave,

I am regularly shooting Christmas with slide film and flash.
Results are outstanding! The slides are shown to the whole family afterwards in a slide show. Family love it, especially the children. It is so much fun for them watching themselves being even bigger than in reality on the big slide screen!
And the brillance of projected slides is unique and unsurpassed.

I'm using Provia 400X: Excellent skin tones and natural, vivid colours. Very fine grain for an ISO 400 film (finer than the new Portra 400), excellent sharpness and resolution.

With ISO 400 and SB-800 flash on my AF-Nikons I can illuminate even bigger rooms. I use the flash with the original diffusor and mostly use longer shutter times of 1/30 or 1/45. In this way I get a very natural light, soft and homogeneous. And no "black holes" in the room corners (using the ambient light as well by the longer shutter speeds).

Cheers, Jan

 

[Stelios]

Not for Christmas I haven't. Have used Kodachrome with flash, turned out not too well, because I'm useless with flash.

David Alan Harvey has shot his Divided Soul book with Velvia 50, and flash (when needed, for fill or in dark). With a warming gel (band aid stickers, beer and other things).

+1 for using ambient light for the background