Topic: Slide Film Usage

[Phil Bebbington]

Up until about 7 years ago I shot almost exclusively Provia 100 when I shot colour. I'm assuming that the difficulty in processing pushed me away. I always loved it.

Oddly, there is an exposed 35mm Provia on my desk! I haven't shot 35mm since about 2007 - I guess I ought to get it done really!

[Peter84]

I'm starting to like this guy. I've read some of his posts on 4nanlog and some things are starting to make more sense now. I've complained in the weekend thread that my velvia had some purple hue over it and that i've been trying out some filters....

http://4nalog.blogspot.nl/2013/06/your-photos-look-over-edited-aka-using.html
"The problem with the cheap filters are their color-cast. While Cokin are considered "a middle ground" between cheap Chinese filters and high-quality filters (Schneider (B+W), Lee, Marumi, Tiffen, Hoya, Singh-Ray etc) they still have noticable color-cast, especially Cokin's graduated natural densities have a well known purple cast"

Hmmm that does explain some

and when I bought my RB67 set it came with a pentax spotmeter. I always use a iPhone app for lightmetering and that works in most cases reasonably well (I also bracket so....) I looked up a manual how to use the spotmeter but that gave very different valvues compared to the app.

http://4nalog.blogspot.nl/2014/02/pentax-spotmeter-v-analog-spotmeter.html

this article gives a nice insight in how to use them so I should really give it another try

[limr]

I have...um, well, it was...okay, uh....I'm a slide film virgin 

Never really gave it much thought. I got my K1000 straight out of college and knew nothing - just shot with film I could find in the stores and made sure the light meter needle was in the middle. I did buy a book to learn about Photography (with a capital P) but never really made it all the way through. I found myself working hard on composition but not thinking as much about metering or film stock. Then I was off gallivanting: to grad school, to teaching overseas, back to the States to figure out if I was cut out for living in my own country...the K1000 came with me through it all, but mostly just for pictures, not Photography.

By the time I finally settled in to be more serious, film was harder to find, developing labs were getting harder to find, and I was...well, er, still am...poor, so the time and cost involved in E6 developing was daunting. I stuck to color negative film that I could get developed at my local lab and b&w that I could develop myself.

Color developing at home is more trouble than it's worth at the moment, especially since the lab I go to is not expensive, but they don't cross process so I can't even shoot slide for cross-processing without sending it out somewhere.

I do have one roll of Kodachrome 64 in my fridge. It came in the bag that my brother-in-law handed to me one day containing his entire Spotmatic kit (including half a roll of Tri-X still in the camera.) I am going to shoot that one day to process it in Caffenol. And one day when it makes sense to start developing color at home, maybe I'll finally get around to grabbing an E6 kit and shooting some slide film. I do think it's quite beautiful in ways that color negative film isn't, but at the moment, it's just not a practical thing for me to use.

[Indofunk]

I do have one roll of Kodachrome 64 in my fridge. It came in the bag that my brother-in-law handed to me one day containing his entire Spotmatic kit (including half a roll of Tri-X still in the camera.) I am going to shoot that one day to process it in Caffenol.

I hope it turns out this blue!!

[limr]

I do have one roll of Kodachrome 64 in my fridge. It came in the bag that my brother-in-law handed to me one day containing his entire Spotmatic kit (including half a roll of Tri-X still in the camera.) I am going to shoot that one day to process it in Caffenol.

I hope it turns out this blue!!

Me too!!

[Francois]

Just like the old Polablue film
I do miss those 35mm instant films... I so wanted to use them and then they were all gone.

[Chalky]

I pretty much always cross process it in the holga myself... have loads of provia (I think) in my freezer, not sure how I got so much of it! May sell some as pretty much only shoot polaroid and BW120 really.

But on the occasions I have shot and processed it as E6 it is pretty special! But yes getting very pricey now. I've used these guys before and they were fantastic http://www.spectrumphotolabs.co.uk/

[gsgary]

I pretty much always cross process it in the holga myself... have loads of provia (I think) in my freezer, not sure how I got so much of it! May sell some as pretty much only shoot polaroid and BW120 really.

But on the occasions I have shot and processed it as E6 it is pretty special! But yes getting very pricey now. I've used these guys before and they were fantastic http://www.spectrumphotolabs.co.uk/

Is that Tehidy Woods ?

[Chalky]

No not tehidy, a path in St Agnes, but tehidy is close and we do go there quite a lot...

[gsgary]

No not tehidy, a path in St Agnes, but tehidy is close and we do go there quite a lot...

I'm coming down on Thursday

[Chalky]

Ohh cool! Unfortunately Im off to wales on fri so will be out of Cornwall for a week... have a great time though...

[Jordi]

In 35mm, I've pretty much only been shooting slide film for the past four or five years. I don't really see the point of shooting color print film in that format. I like the colors, I like the contrast, I like the crispness, and I like that I don't have to fiddle with anything. I don't agree that digital looks anything at all like slide film. You can tweak digital to approximate the look, but then you're still using a digital camera and monkeying around with the shot "in post" - the beauty of slide film is just getting it in one go.

The most captivating part of shooting positive film is the aspect of authenticity about it. Because each slide was film that was in the camera, exposed to light that reflected off of the actual subject photographed. There is a direct tangible connection between the slide and the location/subject contained on the slide. That is what makes finding old slides so interesting - because they were there.

Ditto.
My only regret is to have discovered slide film only too late. Given current prices it is no wonder not many of us do shoot slide film. And call me pessimist, but I do not think Ferrania will be able to change this ...

I shoot mostly bw, but when I resort to colour, it is mostly E6. The blue skies and waters that I take in summer keep me going for the rest of the year. And hey, sometimes overexposing it a little bit does not harm either ...

[Francois]

Et bienvenue Jordi