Slides - Are you shooting?

I have been shooting slide film, then C41 cross processing it. Is that cheating? Works best with film that is outdated several years.
 
There is nothing like slides. I don't really completely understand the demise of slide film. With scanning it just same as C-41 when preparing for the web or prints.

Lowly Elitechrome:

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I love sides and probably shoot more of it than C41 and b&w combined. Yes, it's tougher to expose correctly, but I try to expose even Tr-X correctly, so I see no difference really. I plan to shoot even more this summer than usual, especially knowing that slides may not be around for too much longer.

I think they all have their strong suit, but I have really begun to like Provia 100F. It doesn't oversaturate skin tones but can be bumped up in post if necessary, and it lends itself well to long exposure shots.

No, you are definitely not crazy. C41 and b&w have their place, of course, but a perfectly exposed slide is second to none.
 
I normally shoot 400 speed B&W in a Plaubel 670 as I need something flexible enough for both indoors and out. However, after using a Polaroid 195 with Fuji FP100c for a while I fell in love with color again -- especially film with such nice saturation/intensity. I'm not sure if there are other 400 slide films, but I was really impressed with the Fuji Provia 400x on a recent trip to NOLA. And for all the talk of how hard it is to expose, I didn't run into any particular problems -- 20 out of 20 for exposure, probably 12 out of 20 as far as overall keepers.

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Harry Caul said:
I normally shoot 400 speed B&W in a Plaubel 670 as I need something flexible enough for both indoors and out. However, after using a Polaroid 195 with Fuji FP100c for a while I fell in love with color again -- especially film with such nice saturation/intensity. I'm not sure if there are other 400 slide films, but I was really impressed with the Fuji Provia 400x on a recent trip to NOLA. And for all the talk of how hard it is to expose, I didn't run into any particular problems -- 20 out of 20 for exposure, probably 12 out of 20 as far as overall keepers.

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Nice!

The thing is, I don't see slides as being any harder to expose than digital. Just meter the highlights and shoot away. In fact, the highlights roll off much nicer on slides than on digital, so it's actually less difficult.
 
For those of you who have heard that it's hard to expose for should try their own developing of E-6 with an Arista kit!!!!!!!!!! That is HARD,but it's extremely satisfying ( and reading the supplied instructions is a treat).
Regards,Peter


 
When shooting E-6, I shoot Fuji Velvia 50 almost exclusively for landscapes and nature.

For urban work I will sometimes switch to Velvia 100, particularly for long exposures on a tripod with my XPAN or if I am working handheld and need the extra stop that Velvia 100 gives me.

For B&W, it's Kodak Tri-X 400 almost exclusively but there are some other interesting B&W emulsions I want to investigate.
 
bjornkeizers said:
Dave, if we're crazy... I don't want to be sane.
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I'll go along with that.
charjohncarter said:
There is nothing like slides. I don't really completely understand the demise of slide film. With scanning it just same as C-41 when preparing for the web or prints.
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Precisely, and you also retain the ability to project them, something no C-41 film offers.
edge100 said:
Nice!

The thing is, I don't see slides as being any harder to expose than digital. Just meter the highlights and shoot away. In fact, the highlights roll off much nicer on slides than on digital, so it's actually less difficult.
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Indeed, that's been my experience, and an accurate incident light reading makes setting exposure straightforward.
I'm working my way through 100 feet of RVP at present.
Regards,
Brett
 
I will be shooting what's left of my Astia 100F in 35, 120 and 4x5 this Summer. I was shooting Kodachrome and Ektachrome until Kodak stopped production. I never took a liking to Velvia - the color saturation does not seem natural to me so Provia will be my next emulsion.
Kodachrome and Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) were a match made in heaven.
 
I shoot it all in film: IR, B&W, neg & pos. Coming from digital I used not to rate them so high (despite looking those bright vivid colourful slides agains the light gives me the goosebumps!) because of using cheap crappy flatbed scanners but after working with photomultiplier tubed scanner lately - now all of a sudden I just LOVE the E6 slides!!!

I think both Kodak and Fuji had their place and own kind of "feel" in their films, just pity Kodak is no more. But at least half of the good stuff remains - Fuji and I heard Agfa is planning coming back with some E6 films too.

It's a pity that the Cibachrome (Ilfochrome) dissapeared, I always wanted to try that process myself - the ultimate 100% colour analog workflow IMHO. Now it's just digital scanning and printing of E6s, but at least the source of the signal is a proper analog. 🙂


Some E6 scans:





Cheers,
Margus
 
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