hamey Posted December 22, 2009 Share #21 Posted December 22, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Slide Film, simply the best medium, anything else is secondary. Ken. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted December 22, 2009 Posted December 22, 2009 Hi hamey, Take a look here slide film - anyone out there still using them? . I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
sulskyr Posted December 24, 2009 Share #22 Posted December 24, 2009 I've just switched to Fuji Velvia 100 from the late, lamented Kodachrome. The color strikes me as much too artificial. Any suggestions for a better substitute? I nurse along my 40 year old Pradovit 250 and pray that nothing worse happens to it than my current problem with the dark slide sticking open between slides. In the meanwhile, until I can walk up to a 70" screen and see the kind of detail I get with film, I am not switching to digital. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZDavid Posted December 24, 2009 Share #23 Posted December 24, 2009 Even if you're on the other side of the world, B&H in NYC is a good source for slide film -- good price, and reliable service. Fuji Astia 100F has to have the finest possible grain, superb rendition of highlights and shadow, with neutral colors, especially whites. I also quite like Kodak's E100G and Elite range -- good blues and greens for landscapes. Merry Christmas! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiasgd Posted December 25, 2009 Share #24 Posted December 25, 2009 I shoot slide, my last kodachrome K64 & K25 rolls , kodak E100G, fuji Provia 100F & Astia 100 F. I buy slide fim online ( Freestyle) and the kodachrome film process at Dwaynes. Nothing compares with slide film Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oculus_ny Posted December 26, 2009 Share #25 Posted December 26, 2009 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!! Not only am I still using transparancy film, my favorite is still B&W Agfa SCALA. We are down to one known lab, dr5-lab, Denver, after getting ripped off by Color Reflections, Miami, operation that closed out of Scala last year. (They offered to buy back their prepaid mail bags, and then didn't after I sent mine). So we must be careful. But I just sent out my Christmas "cards" and used a Hudson River scene on SCALA, taken with my M6 TTL and Summacron 28 asph. Nutten Hook Tree (south): Photo by Photographer Oculus New York - photo.net Nothing like the stuff and the freezer is still stocked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim123 Posted December 29, 2009 Share #26 Posted December 29, 2009 Slide film is the only film I use. Fuji Velvia, Kodak Elite Chrome usually 100 or 50 FANTASTIC!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gberger Posted December 29, 2009 Share #27 Posted December 29, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Began with Kodachrome in early 1940s. Still shooting 90% trannies. Buy from B&H in NYC, send to A&I in California for excellent processing. P2002 projector with matte screen. Use Astia and Provia with a little bit of Velvia for fun. Given up on Kodak. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_S Posted December 29, 2009 Share #28 Posted December 29, 2009 I mainly use slides (Fuji Provia, Kodak Elite Chrome) when my Sigma cameras are too slow. The look of bayer sensors I simply do not like; flat - end of story; making bayer photos live would costs me too much money (good lenses, larger bodies than I use today, etc) Just framed some older slides yesterday and looked at them through a slide projector. What an enjoyment for the eyes after looking at screens all the time, and man, what charme some of the photos have. No way digital would produce that. Another reason I still like film at times: my best photos were ALL shot with film, no digital camera could have produced that special touch. That said, Foveon is getting there (if they would build a nice camera around it I may largely set aside analogue for good perhaps) and a nice digital alternative, without wanting to spark a discussion. I am simply saying is that I like foveon and film - for the same reasons I suppose: charme, liveliness, colors, b/w abilities. And - being able to fire a few good slides into the projector is always nice. More memories seem to come up than with digital photos I find. In the end it is all about the balance. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted December 29, 2009 Share #29 Posted December 29, 2009 Rarely, I tend to shoot B&W when I shoot film. Still have a few rolls of Astia, Provia and Velvia, but I haven't shot one in about a year and a half. Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
norsk Posted December 29, 2009 Share #30 Posted December 29, 2009 Hello, I use film- and digital bodys. My first choice in film is the Velvia 100F. I use it for my slideshows showing in different cities - but also for scanning with my Nikon COOLSCAN 9000 ED. Problem now is that the number of good laboratories here in Germany become smaller and smaller. So I had to change to a very professional one, and have to pay now really more. So - I use my digital camera (Nikon D200) more often then before. And on my next journey I have both with me, digital- and filmbodies. And - I´m waiting after a cheaper "D3x" - for example a "D700x". Regards Heinz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
holmes Posted December 30, 2009 Share #31 Posted December 30, 2009 I live in a university city, down near the border with Mexico, pop 90,000. We do not have a camera store. There are a couple of 'so-called' studios for h.s. pics and they do do machine processing. Color only no B&W. In the shorts it is a sorry state of affairs. I shoot film 95% of the time. Chromes, negative color and B&W. I buy it all out of NYC and mailers to a particular lab in California. I shoot mainly slides but with my new film scanner it works equally well with B&W prints and color neg prints. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicaman94044 Posted December 31, 2009 Share #32 Posted December 31, 2009 For those still looking for an E6 lab in San Francisco, try: Light Waves Imaging 130 Russ Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 431-9651 http://www.lightwavesimaging.com In the North Bay there is also: Tha Lab 400 Tesconi Circle Santa Rosa, CA 95401 (707) 575-5553 The Lab: Custom Photographic Lab & Digital Imaging I process my own E6 but a quick google search indicated that these are two labs that still do E6. I've personally used The Lab and they do good work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leitzmac Posted January 8, 2010 Share #33 Posted January 8, 2010 I was in SF a few months back and recall a photographer telling me it was becoming increasingly difficult to find transparency in the city, so I'm glad to Leicaman has provided some info - the beauty of the Forum! In answer to the question in the title of your thread the answer is yes, all the time! I am currently on a trip and have a couple of bags of tranny ranging from Astia to Ektachrome to Velvia 50 to GX in addition to some Ektar and plenty of black and white. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpattison Posted January 8, 2010 Share #34 Posted January 8, 2010 I always shoot Kodachrome 100G. Two rolls so far this year (2010!) It is perfect for mixed light, not too contrasty, or over saturated. Develop and mount it myself, usually 2 films at a time. I use the Tetenal 3-Bath process in a Jobo proccesor. Tetenal : Colortec E-6 3-Bath Kit : PHOTO IMAGING John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulpp Posted January 8, 2010 Share #35 Posted January 8, 2010 The Photographic Society (Club) I go to is determined to keep slide film alive and for the 3 or 4 slide competitions per year will get 60 images in each. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drums1977 Posted January 8, 2010 Share #36 Posted January 8, 2010 I used to shoot slide, until recently, when the processing price of one 135 roll went up to 14 euros in my town! Can't afford it and I'm too lazy to develop it myself, so now I only shoot BW (selfprocessed) and kodak portra, which by the way scans beautifully in my V700. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalLee2001 Posted January 8, 2010 Share #37 Posted January 8, 2010 I would just keep watching B&H, I have gotten very good deals there. also E100G is avail in roll format. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StS Posted January 10, 2010 Share #38 Posted January 10, 2010 It seems I have a silent comeback of slide film, which I abandoned sometimes in the 90s. Recently I did three rolls of Kodachrome 64 to wave it goodbye. I used to like the "black" of Kodachrome but found the colours difficult for scanning, didn't see the use of doing the effort to learn to scan it properly. Over christmas, I tried a roll of Fuji Astia and liked it very much for it's natural colours, smooth and deep "black", very good skin tone reproduction and grain below the resolution I ordered at my lab (12Mpx scan, giving 36MBit TIFFs). Stefan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Joachim_I Posted January 11, 2010 Share #39 Posted January 11, 2010 I only use slide films (35mm and 120), mostly Provia 100F, Provia 400x and Velvia 50. I usually mail order my slide films once per year. I can have my films developed at the same day for a reasonable price by a local lab. I am happy with this procedure and very much enjoy my projected slides. However, I miss some films like Kodachrome 64, Ektachrome 320T (just shot my last two rolls) or a local possibility to develop Agfa Scala. I hope Fujifilm continues to supply their current slide films. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maciel Posted January 11, 2010 Share #40 Posted January 11, 2010 Velvia 50 Provia 100 Scala Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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