Poll: Do you use slide film?

Poll: Do you use slide film?

  • Never

    Votes: 135 19.0%

  • Occasionally

    Votes: 261 36.7%

  • Frequently

    Votes: 254 35.7%

  • Other: e.g. I shoot slides but in my SLR instead

    Votes: 61 8.6%
  • Total voters
    711
B&W almost exclusively in my rangefinders. But when my wife and I go on vacations, I always carry my delightful little Contax Aria, with a 28-70mm zoom, loaded with Fuji Astia 100F. While it's supposedly a "portrait" film, I find its true colors, realistic saturation, and low contrast marvelous for general travel photography (though it obviously has its limitations in low-light situations). And nothing beats projecting the slides when we get back home.
 
I'm with Peter_n here

I'm with Peter_n here

peter_n said:
I'm afraid I'm a bit of a barbarian. I only shoot B&W neg in the RFs. Color with the digi P&S.

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I shoot B&W exclusely with my rangefinders, and Slide film in my SLR. Usual vacation gear would be either a CL or Canonet with B&W, the Canon SLR loaded with slide film, plus a digital camera.
 
My two favorite films are Fuli Velvia and Kodak High Speed Infrared. Both get plenty of use in my Bessa R. I also appreciate Tri-X and Kodak's chromogenic B&W film. I am looking to buy a Bessa-L and 25/4 so I can have two cameras--one loaded with Velvia and the other with B&W.
 
I use slide film almost exclusively, primarily Fuji Sensia or Provia. The photos I've posted to my gallery are on Provia.

Over the weekend, my wife and I have been going through about 60 years of slides that my father in law took. This is for a Christmas present project. I was surprised by the Kodachrome shots from the forties. Many of them are still nearly perfect from a color perspective. Many of the Ektachrome slides from the ensuing decades are badly faded, although the ones from the late 70s to present are just fine.

The Minolta Dual Scan IV that I bought the previous weekend has worked great!
 
I'm using up my stock of Agfa RSXII from the freezer, a lovely film with great saturation, one of the few that give really good greens, but Agfa is no more, alas.
 
Before I started working with a RF I shot slide film almost exclusively in my SLR. More recently, I've been dividing my time b/w color slide and B&W negative.

What I like to do, whether using RF or SLR, is to carry two bodies that can interchange lenses - then I put color slide in one and B&W in the other. This is what I did when I went out to "shoot" for my RFF Book 2 submissions - which is why I have been able to send in one color and one B&W.

OTOH: I hardly ever shoot color print film - but my "better half" likes it because then she can get two print sets made up and "share" prints with her family & friends. [We could "solve" that by having her go digital and getting a good color printer .... but I'm resisting!]
 
It appears that slide film is still holding its own among our membership. I've stocked up on some Sensia 100 to get back into it -- then I'll branch into other emulsions.

Yesterday we bought a projection screen -- we have NO suitable walls in our house for projecting slides. I have an old Ektagraphic projector in the closet and a bunch of slides from the 60's and 70's. We're going to have some family fun with this! :D

I suspect I'll mainly be using SLR gear for slides, but I might sneak a roll or two into the Leica as well ...

Gene
 
I'll likely bite the bullet for a dedicated film/slide scanner in the next week or so, because I really like slides and E6 is so easy to get processed here. The C41 color is good stuff, I don't want to seem a snob-but I just like slides.
 
I shoot it mainly in my SLRs, don't ask me why 'cos I really don't know :p

I also ran a couple rolls thru my Canonet some months back and I remember being amazed at how well the back then recently acquired canonet performed with them :eek:

I'm curious as for slide film thru some classic lenses (ie Summitar), and with that 100' roll I got from Stephen a while ago I'm sure I could try something...
 
In the past I have only shot slides when I shot for presentations, either for work or, church.
nothing like having 2000 people come to a special service to see YOUR vacation pictures.....

2 weeks touring ISRAEL, gotta get those scanned
 
... most recently Ektachrome through a 6x9 folder. I miss Kodachrome 25 though --- I have boxes of slides from the 70's that still have brilliant color...
 
The only slide film I shoot is 4x5, when I can afford it.

Currently I shoot only B&W in 35mm, a mix of color and B&W in 6x6, and mostly color in 4x5.
 
Gene: I think you'll like the results of slide film in the Leica. But I do have to admit that when I shoot chromes I tend to think of the SLR. It's only been lately that I've forced myself to shoot some chrome in the RFs. It's been an interesting experience. Metering seems to be even more critical than in my OMs, and I'm glad I've got the spot meter in the SPs. The results are worth it as sharpness is not affected by any mirror slap or aperture actuator. And as the 35 SPs use lens in shutter, there's even less vibration in the camera body. I'll save a K64 roll for you. ;)
 
GeneW said:
It appears that slide film is still holding its own among our membership. I've stocked up on some Sensia 100 to get back into it -- then I'll branch into other emulsions.

Yesterday we bought a projection screen -- we have NO suitable walls in our house for projecting slides. I have an old Ektagraphic projector in the closet and a bunch of slides from the 60's and 70's. We're going to have some family fun with this! :D

I suspect I'll mainly be using SLR gear for slides, but I might sneak a roll or two into the Leica as well ...

Gene
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Gene,

I'm sure you'll enjoy those slides. Mine date mainly from the 70's to present (with gaps) and I've been scanning them as a winter project. I am amazed at the continuing fidelity of the colors even in the oldest ones.

I still prefer slides for color (mainly SLR but also slip the occassional roll in my S2) and B&W negative. If AGFA wasn't on the ropes, I'd be tempted to try some of their B&W slide film. Wish Ilford made some. I like the slide format for hard copy image storage (although with DVD and HD back-ups these days).

George
 
To those of you shooting Fuji Velvia, does it look terrible if there are some people in the images. In other words should I avoid photos with my children? I know the skins tones are not optimized in Velvia but do faces look alien??

For that reason I have a couple of rolls of Astia in my fridge but would love to give Velvia a go eventually.
 
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Bit of a mixture at the moment. Results so far from the slides have been poor, although not afflicted by the graininess problem of B&W when scanning I've had quite a few with colour shifts, and poorly exposed. Mind you I think that might be something to do with a 12mm Heliar and extreme conditions like snow.

I'll persevere though as I've just got 8 rolls of Provia to put through.

All this talk of Kodachromes has whetted my appetite. Must dig a few out and scan them in.

Andy
 
jaapv said:
I'm using up my stock of Agfa RSXII from the freezer, a lovely film with great saturation, one of the few that give really good greens, but Agfa is no more, alas.
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I'm still scanning my Madrid pictures and haven't resized anything for the web yet, but the greens from Elitechrome 100 are pretty good.
 
I nearly exclusively use slide film nowadays.

Kodak EBX 100
Fuji Sensia II 100
Fuji Velvia 100F
 
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