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
Actually I shoot 70% slide and 30% B&W (I feel a certain revival for this!)
I also shoot a few Scala, which give excellent result in projection (and where very good to be print in Cibachrome, when it was available). I also found some of htme very difficult to scan, let say impossible! and also very expensive. I used the 35mm with a large format mentality !!!
Sensia is my multipurpose slide film, good ratio quality/price but when I need/desire sharp vivid colours i go to the Velvia (now 100 F) .
robert
 
I only shoot slides when I'm going to do color landscapes. Then I shoot Velvia.

Other than that, I dislike E-6 because it is finicky, expensive, and not the best for scanning.
 
shutterflower said:
Other than that, I dislike E-6 because it is finicky, expensive, and not the best for scanning.
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Depends on the film. Kodak's E200 is my current favorite for slides; decent, versative rated speed; pushable; pretty fine grain; and (in my experience, anyway) pretty easy to scan (for the record, most of the scanners I've worked with are from Minolta).


- Barrett
 
Right now I am enjoying experimenting with as many different films as possible. I use Velvia, Sensia and I am now trying Fuji Fortia, which I picked up in Japan... supposidly more saturated than Velvia.

I will also try out some EliteChrome and Kodachrome just to have a look. Whenever I see some film I havn't tried, I pick some up for the hell of it. I actually like the cheap Konica film, and just picked up some Agfa from the Big W.
 
I picked up a couple of (120) orders a while back - at the supermarket (they send to a good lab in Germany) - and said to my husband: "Look! They didn't print this roll!" "Duh"", he said. "Those aren't negatives."
I grab, sometimes, from my vegetable drawer, and sometimes, apparantly, I don't Read.
The results were special enough to send me shopping for 6X6 slide mounts (labs in the Netherlands prefer mounted positives for printing purposes..) but what I really need - I fear - is a good MF scanner.
 
Aurelius said:
I use Provia 400.

My first and last Sensia 400 in my Epson 4990 to day. And I did not like it at all.
http://www.fotosidan.se/gallery/view.htm?ID=118272
I even converted one to B/W ... and lot of USM to others. Sorry.
Bessa R + Ultron 35mm

Provia for the street!
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Hm, looks very diferent to my Sensia 100, haven't tried Sensia 400 yet.
 
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Aurelius said:
I use Provia 400.

My first and last Sensia 400 in my Epson 4990 to day. And I did not like it at all.
http://www.fotosidan.se/gallery/view.htm?ID=118272
I even converted one to B/W ... and lot of USM to others. Sorry.
Bessa R + Ultron 35mm

Provia for the street!
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The last time I used Sensia (200, I think), it didn't play well with the film scanner I had at the time (Minolta Scan Elite 2900/Elite I). Needed more than a little tweaking in PS to set things right. Never had this problem with, say, Kodak E200 (or, for that matter, Provia 400).


- Barrett
 
I use slide more often than neg, especially with the Bessa L and CV 15 or 25. Often I'll use PS to see what the image looks like in monochrome - mst of my B&W gallery shots are monochromed trannie. Quite often the image looks better in B&W than Colour IMHO.

Though I'm just getting into processing B&W neg again, which will be fun.
 
My opinion if you need a 400 ISO slide the choice is PROVIA 400 F ! It s one of the few things where I have no doubt ! Of course , personal idea !
ciao
rob
 
Slide film is the only type that I shoot with my Stereo Realist. This is a practical matter as I'm using a tranparency viewer to see my results as a stereo image.

I only shoot with ASA100 film - Sensia or Elite chrome. The Realist has a top shutter speed of 1/150th sec and a higher ASA is just too fast to use outdoors (I don't have ND filters in Series V). The Realist and other Stereo cameras of the 1950's were in use when color trtnsparency film were ASA10. Eventually I'll try B&W slides by reversal processing of T-Max 100, I'll enjoy producing slides in my B&W darkroom.
 
Kodachrome Reminder

Kodachrome Reminder

Always have Kodachrome 64 loaded in a body, usually the Electro 35 which meters almost perfectly. The old Canon FTb's/T70 meter OK too. Astia 100 is great for MF and LF, doesn't look like the other Fuji films.

Regards

PS: Jorge, why do the Gallery management procedures keep changing? For example, an image last night loaded ok, today, changed and not working, oh well.

Ok, Ok.
 
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I find slide film easier to scan. Even though print film has more latitude, I like having the color reference right there on the lightbox.
 
Rhoyle said:
I find slide film easier to scan. Even though print film has more latitude, I like having the color reference right there on the lightbox.
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Same here. I usually have a devil of a time scanning color negatives; true black and white or C-41 B&W comes out OK but I have to fuss with it more than slides.
 
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