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
I enjoy using a Kodak Retina 2a whenever I can. A roll of Sensia (!00 speedFuji) is in this camera right now. Other rangerfinders in my arsenal include a Retina !a and a CAnon QL17. Each one gets a roll of transparency at least once a year. Aids the digestion.

Tom
 
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haven't shot a roll of slide film in twenty years or so. Haven't realy shot film in 5 years either. Maybe I will try a roll of slide again just for fun. John
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How come you've got film cameras then? :) Can I have them?

I've only recently discovered the joys of slide film, however it is expensive compared to C41.

Actually, since I started developing myself HP5+ is all I use.

Still I've got ten rolls of Provia 100F and 400F each in the freezer for my two-week holiday starting Saturday. B&W is cool, but sometimes you want to know what colour things were too.
 
Do I use slide film? Absolutely!

Do I use slide film? Absolutely!

Hello All,

This is my first reply/post/whatever, so I hope I follow correct ettiquette. Yes, I use slide film at least 75% of the time in my rangefinder cameras. I still love giving slide shows, guess it is the "old school" in me. I use Fujichrome Velvia and Provia exclusively with wonderful results. I have not used the venerable Kodachrome 64 in many many years-shall I try it again?

Hope this helps. Glad to be a part of the RFF!
 
For years, I shot a lot of slide film. I would buy 35mm slide film in 100-foot rolls, E-6 chemistry in 5-liter kits, roll my own film, and processed my own 35mm and 120 slides. However, finding E-6 chemistry locally has become impossible and shipping “hazardous chemicals” has become cost prohibitive.

I now shoot a lot more print film.
 
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Yes

Yes

Yes I do, I have just gone back to slide film after a few years shooting digital. I much prefer the vibrant colours of slide film. The scans also seem so much smoother, with more natural colours, when printing on an inkjet.

Also there is nothing that compares with a projected slide for colour and detail!

Regards, John.
 
I was avoiding slide film for a while since the processing cost is 2-3 times that of C41.. but having recently revisited 'chromes, I remember what makes them special.. virtually no grain, and amazing colors.. slides have a depth to them that print film can rarely capture
 
I do shoot slides occasionally, but pretty rarely these days. I'm a big fan of Provia F. I went through a phase of shooting it almost exclusively a few years back. I also love Scala and, when I was living in Toronto, was lucky enough to have a lab near by that would process it. But these days, it's mostly B&W prints for me. And, as I only have one RF body, I can't load two films at the same time (I don't really enjoy lugging my two EOS 1n bodies around for a day of shooting). But this thread has got me thinking that maybe I should get back to shooting slides more often.
 
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Slide film rules... It's simply the best there is.

Problem is... if you can't project the stuff, viewing slides in one of those small viewers is kind of a pain for others. And they get dirty very easily too (the viewers, I mean).

But then... there's nothing like them! :)
 
I just got myself twelve rolls of Kodachrome 64 to say a farewell to film in style (well, not quite, I am keeping my M6TTL and it likes to be used) Now I'm hunting for suitable subjects, but sadly with a strongly diminished lens arsenal, my Summaron 3.5, 3.5cm and Elmar LTM 4.0/9cm. All the rest I sent on vacation to Solms to be coded.
 
For me, one of the relaxing/stisfying moment of my life is when I put on my table the light box (my one is reasonable wide) and I pt on it the slides. Then with a lens I start looking at and commenting this is good. this one s..t I should heve focus better, that bis great etc etc. This is a moment than even when I have some personal trouble let me forget other things, and it is simply...magic.
Magic ? I also (re) discover the pleasure to project slides on a screen and comment them together with my wife. Photography is important as part of our life, is great, is magic. The ongoing competition betwen me and my wife in taking pleasure adds something... grande ! LONG AND HAPPY LIFE TO SLIDES !
 
I shoot it all the time, both E6 and Kodachrome. Walmart will process and mount a 36 exposure roll of either E6 or Kodachrome (yes, Kodachrome) for $4.75 plus tax. I also use mailers like Fuji, purchased on eBay for about $4 each. Film can be had on eBay at very modest prices. If you go to the big camera stores, you can expect to get ripped off, especially with processing, and particularly with Kodachrome.

Also, some other chains like Rite Aid and Ritz Photo (here in California) have reasonable slide processing prices (like about $7-8 a roll) - this is sometimes more convenient since Walmarts are fewer here than in other parts of the USA since local politicians have decided getting such good deals from Walmart is harmful to us.

I scan my slides with a Minolta diMage scanner and incredible color images are the result !
 
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never shoot colour print, only B&W and slide (usually astia or velvia) and nearly always shoot a roll of one and then swap to the other and always have one camera loaded with one and another with the other that way all bases covered (sort of)
 
Color print film goes in the point n shoots, slide and bw in the proper cameras. I really hope kodak will do something like sell the kodachrome gear to poland or something so it will continue to exist at least a little bit..
Some of those newer t grain kodak films seem ok though.
 
I use if for cross processing mostly. To me cross-processed grainy slide film is kinda more like the black and white version of color film.

Just bought some Kodak Elite Chrome to check out the Chihuly thing up at the New York Botanical garden with the intent of cross processing it. I like the way it looks XP'd.
 
Like some others here I still shoot transparencies regularly. If I'm looking for a good all-around slow film I go with Provia 100F. But (ready your tomatos) I also love Kodak E200 pushed to 400 or 800. I find it's fantastic for dusk shots which is when I do a lot of my shooting, because it takes on a warmer more purplish cast that tends to emphasize the dusk colours I already love. As a word of warning though it isn't as sharp as more "modern" transparency films and has a definite grain to it when pushed. I've gotten some fantastic prints from it, though you mileage might vary...
 
Slides is what made me go from digital to film. The funny thing is that wasn't me who decided, but my girl, that hates to look at photos on a computer.
 
For color I shoot Kodak portra (vc, nc) and got addicted to the Kodak 100UC on trips to San Fran, (my wife loves the way she looks in it). I shoot E6 rarly and only on my 645's, 'cause they look cool on the light box. Otherwise its all B&W
 
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