The year there slide (positive) film has declined in use?

[Ko.Fe.]

Thirty years ago all pictures taken with my family FED-2 were taken on slide film from ORWO. Just for practical reason to avoid expensive prints.

Recently, I was thinking of slide on same FED-2 again. Just for fun.

Not sure if I could buy positive film locally here, but B&H would helps as my usual place for film.

I have contacted lab nearby to see if they still develop slide film.
The answer was:

"We had to stop processing E6 approx 6 years ago as the amount of film dropped off and everyone started shooting digital."

Interesting, around same time my family purchased our first consumer level DSLR.
In 2008-2009, one of them became affordable for our limited budget, it was priced under $1K.

 

[mrak]

I would like to use some more slide film but it costs almost twice as much as other films. I am also intimidated by the narrow dynamic range. You need a high-end scanner to get all the details out of shadows. Looking at slides, especially medium format and bigger is fun. Sadly most slide films are discontinued. I miss Astia, Kodachrome and the Kodak slide films.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

My scanner was priced well bellow $200.
But it shouldn't be a problem with 48-bit scanning mode.
Post Processing is also very important to support same color depth as the scanner.