Cheapest way to get prints out of slides?

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I sent my elite chromes to Dywne's to get developed. It came back in boxes of mounted slides. They are very cool and all. But how do I make prints out of them? I don't have a projector either so I don't really know what to do with these (half) developed films.
 
Most labs which develop slides can do that. As a plus, the slide serves as a guide for how the print should look, so prints from slides tend to have fewer surprises than prints from print film.
 
Sorry, but your film is completely developed. Running it through more chemicals won't do any good, in fact, it will make things worse!

You can scan and print to any inkjet. If that doesn't sound fancy enough for you, call it a glicee image.

Were you looking for cibachromes/ilfochromes? Good luck.
 
This is my first time shooting slide films. I was hoping it would come back with stacks of 3x4 prints along with the positive slides. I don't have a scanner nor printer. Where do I go from here to show my pictures to friends without using a projector.
 
No one has told you the really easy way, so I'll do it. Find a one hour lab that has a Fuji Frontier digital minilab. These work by scanning the film, then using lasers to expose traditional silver-based photo paper to make real photo prints. They work just as well with slides as with negatives and give far better prints from slides than the old-fashioned processes that used special positive printing paper. The prints are good, and cheap. Walmart and Walgreens both have these in most of their stores, and they charge something like 20 cents a print.
 
I have an accessory called a zoom slide duplicator, which replaces the lens on an slr. You load a slide into the barrel ahead of its diffuser and then the camera's meter generally takes care of the exposure. The result on standard neg film is a neg of the slide. These dupers used to be very popular and several photogs were known for using them to produce original work, multi-exposures and the like.
 
exe163 said:
This is my first time shooting slide films. I was hoping it would come back with stacks of 3x4 prints along with the positive slides. I don't have a scanner nor printer. Where do I go from here to show my pictures to friends without using a projector.
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Hi,

the easiest, best quality and cheapest way to show your slides to friends is using an excelllent slide loupe and a small slimline lightbox:

The quality with an excellent slide loupe is outstanding:
Excellent sharpness and resolution, no distortion, the full tonality the slide offers (in contrast to computer monitors, if scanned), and an almost three-dimensional effect.

I am using the Schneider 4x (for 35mm) and 3x (for medium format 4,5x6, 6x6, 6x7 and even 6x9: the image field is 8cm x 8cm, so with 6x9 you only loose some millimeters left and right, which is irrelevant).
I am very satiesfied and can highly recommend them. You can also use them for negatives and prints (there is a transparent foot for prints and a dark one for slides included, the foot is changeable).
http://www.schneider-kreuznach.com/f...hoer_lupen.htm

The Rodenstock loupes are also very good:
http://www.rodenstock-photo.com/en/m...al-magnifiers/

From my experience (in my environment) it is much easier and convenient to use the lightbox and loupe instead of the computer:
- no need to scan (saves lots of time or money, if you use a lab service)
- much faster: To look at the slide I just have to take the slide and the lightbox. It's just a few seconds.
With computer monitor I first have to boot my computer, which takes much more time.
- much better quality with the loupe and lighttable: The computer monitor only delivers an extremely low resolution of 1-2 MP, with the original slide you have the full package.
And you have the full color brillance and tonality with the slide on the lighttable. No losses like with the monitor.

Good new daylight lightboxes / lighttables are quite cheap.

Examples:
http://www.kaiser-fototechnik.de/en/...timent.asp?w=5

http://www.doerrfoto.de/Produkte/index.html

They are not only excellent for viewing color and BW slides, and BW negatives.
They are also excellent for calibrating BW film / developer combinations (taking the shots for the Zone series / evaluating the characteristic curve).

A daylight lighttable (with about 5600°K color temperature) and a very good loupe should be in every film photographers household.

And I highly recommend to also buy a very good slide projector and a screen: A projected slide on the screen with a very good projection lens is absolutely breathtaking!
With no other photographic medium you can get such a brilliance.
Slide projection is a league of it's own.

Cheers, Jan
 
I just came back from my local Walgreen to pick up 1 picture printed from their service. The quality was terrible and it cost me 50c for the 4x6. The color was washed out and the image was quite blurry. Good thing I only give them one to test it out. It was the only drug store that does it out of the 4 photo labs I've been to.

As a student, my pocket is not that deep. I would very much love to have the ultimate film experience but it is already too expensive for me to buy and develop slides, let alone the extra hassle of getting it printed.

Out of the 4 rolls of e6 I shot, only ~15 I have any interest in looking at them again. Ideally getting them on print would be the best. But it seems that I've already exhausted any cheap option of doing it. Along with my film camera, I also have a Nikon APS-C SLR. Is there any relatively cheap zoom slide duplicator that works with this format?

I also stumble upon this:
http://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-F2D...88&sr=8-3-fkmr0&keywords=scane+film+wolverine

I am quite skeptical about its quality. But from the reviews it seems to be pretty decent. Any one with experience using it?
 
exe163 said:
As a student, my pocket is not that deep. I would very much love to have the ultimate film experience but it is already too expensive for me to buy and develop slides, let alone the extra hassle of getting it printed.
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As written in my first post, get the Schneider or Rodenstock slide loupe and a slimline daylight lightbox (you can also use a 50mm normal lens as a 4x loupe, but it is a bit less convenient compared to the special slide loupes).
That is a once in a lifetime buy, and only about 160-180 bucks.
Then you don't have any costs for prints, and the quality is much much better than scanning and 4x6 prints.
And it is the real slide film experience.
And good slide film projectors are extremely cheap on the used market.

Keeping costs down: Look for AgfaPhoto CT Precisa 100 slide film. Here in Germany for example this film is much cheaper than Kodak Ektar or Fuji Reala. It's excellent stuff.
Look for online film distributors.
Compare prices of labs for E6 developing. Often using a lab in an other town and doing mail order is the most cost effective and convenient solution.

Cheers, Jan
 
I have given up printing my slides from the photolab. They make a cheap scan of the slides and print it directly, the results are awful, desaturated (i use Velvia), grainy, blurry. It looks like a print from a cheap flatbed scan. Now, i just wait until i have several hundreds slides to scan, and rent a decent scanner (ex. Nikon coolscan) and send the retouched scans to an online printing service. That way my prints look like the slides.
 
Take them back to the shop you had them developed in. Many will have a large specialised Fujifilm or other scanner which can do it for you at the same time. I always get a CD of scanned images with my film each time I take them in.

You can then print those images whenever and however you wish.
 
If film is your hobby, buy a scanner like Epson V500, V700 or Plustek 7600. It might be expensive in the beginning but you will save tons of money over the next few years.

Scan them in to the computer yourself according to your own expectations, then bring them to walmart to print for 10c a piece.
 
It's too bad you can't find any of those Minolta film scanners now. I bought one new for about $200 a few years ago. Using Vuescan you can get great results from negatives and transparencies.

Wish I had purchased a back up.

Edit- apparently they can still be found in various places. They will be in various states of newness/condition or at very high prices.
 
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