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Hi there

 

I am addicted to slide film - I just love the colors and the saturation of Velvia 50 when I push it through my lovely Leica M6 camera. I find it hard to believe that it dies slowly but surely. I am this week in San Francisco and cannot find decent slide film in this city nor a lab which can process it. Is there a chance that good slide film survives along with the black-white community? Give me hope, dear community!!

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Hi there

 

I am addicted to slide film - I just love the colors and the saturation of Velvia 50 when I push it through my lovely Leica M6 camera. I find it hard to believe that it dies slowly but surely. I am this week in San Francisco and cannot find decent slide film in this city nor a lab which can process it. Is there a chance that good slide film survives along with the black-white community? Give me hope, dear community!!

 

 

What do you mean, I use slide film ALL the time.....buy the way..there are signs everywhere that film is slowly making a comeback and many are getting a "digital hangover"

Polaroid just made an announcement last week

Polaroid Announces Relaunch of One Step Camera and New Instant Film in 2010 | camera, News, polaroid | GeekSugar - Technology & Gadgets

 

Film is getting a new lease:)

 

Cheers, JRM

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Hi Everyone,

 

I use slide film, formerly all the time, now about 50% of the time, and the other 50% is Kodak's new Ektar 100.

 

I regret that I'm not using my projector lately. It's stored in my house in Maine, which has no electricity, and I am living mostly now in my house in Thailand.

 

The result is that I am scanning my slides and negatives in Thailand on a home film scanner (Konica-Minolta Scan Elite 5400 Mark II) and then publishing the results in books with Blurb and then mailing the books out to friends and family.

 

Between the scanning and the publishing the loss of quality in the printed results is substantial, and I regret this greatly, but there seems to be little that can do about it, and at least the people I want to have see the photos have them.

 

Cheers!

David

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I've only found E100VS and Velvia 50 at B&H and Adorama, etc. here in the States. Processing and full roll scan with NCPS (San Diego) North Coast Photographic Services

 

Could probably find someone downtown NYC, but it doesn't really matter if it's all mailed anyway.

 

Not even the big houses had slide E100VS or Velvia 50 in stock last week - there were some rolls available from Thailand on Ebay. Millions of great 35mm cameras out there and there are only a handful of sellers and processors.

 

- Charlie

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I buy my film from Glazer's in Seattle (my local shop); Provia 100 and 400.

 

Color processing local at Panda.

 

B&W negs film (HP5 and Delta 100) cross-processed as slides at DR5.com

 

I have a Leica 35mm projector and a Hasselblad medium format project. Tremendously satisfied with it all.

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Still happily using slide film here in Adelaide, S.Oz. We have one place left that develops the stuff. I've really come to love 50 Velvia and always have a brick or two in the freezer though I buy it from Freestyle. It's still cheaper with shipping costs than getting it anywhere in Australia.

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Plenty of Velvia 100 in my fridge but that's mainly because I've gone off it a bit as I can never get satisfactory scans with my Epson V700.

 

Another who is now using Ektar 100 for most colour, scans beautifully and easily as well I find but there's nothing like the colours you get from Velvia though as good as Ektar is. :(

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I still shoot Velvia 50 every week. No digital camera can come close to the fingerprint or the color palette of this film, especially when it Leica lenses are used. There just isn't anything like it.

 

B&H photo in New York will be happy to sell you Velvia - or about any other E6 film - by the truckload.

 

Awhile back, Fuji made it clear that they have no intention of discontinuing their E6 films - in 2008, they opened a new production facility for E6. If we jkeep buying Velvia, Fuji will be happy to keep making it.

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In Italy, especially in small towns, is quite easy to get and develop all Kodak and Fuji slide film and they represents a more than significant percentage of my shots. I also scan with a KM 5400 II and I do not found "large degradation" in the image quality IF the film is properly scanned by a such high (true) resolution device and properly processed (I am an image processing academic researcher and professionally work in image/TV quality assessment). Many people was surprised in seeing 40 x 60 cm and 30 x 45 prints clearly blowing out any digital counterpart for colourfulness and details. In particular, I am firmly convinced that "scientific" scanner focusing/image denoising and sharpening are the key points of success, in addition to mostly working in wide gamut color spaces. However I scan a small percentage (5%) of all slides and mostly I project them (with a Pradovit-IR/Super Colorplan and a Weber 5400/Colorplan). This is the most reasonable workflow for me.

 

Sincerely

 

Elio

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