sunbird Posted December 30, 2010 Share #1 Posted December 30, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Going back to film for a while. Having looked back at the first results I shot with my M6 a few years ago, they have so much more depth and warmth than anything I have shot on M8 (purchased 6 months after M6). I was shooting Kodachrome - colours / tones just amazing. Q. What's the state of play with transparency 35mm these days? I'm aware of Kodachrome and Sensia being discontinued. Is the writing on the wall for 35mm colour transparency film? Cheers Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted December 30, 2010 Posted December 30, 2010 Hi sunbird, Take a look here Going back to film - what's left to use?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
hoppyman Posted December 30, 2010 Share #2 Posted December 30, 2010 Yes However currently you can still obtain the superb Fujifilm Pro transparency emulsions. (Provia, Astia, Velvia) I think that the Provia 100F is an extremely fine choice for many purposes. Depending on where you are they can be very expensive vs. the consumer emulsions. You need a high quality scanning solution to take advantage of the quality obviously (and firstly a reliable high quality processor to develop it for you). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZDavid Posted December 30, 2010 Share #3 Posted December 30, 2010 I hope not! +1 for those film choices. Astia 1000F has almost invisible grain. E100G is also worth trying -- nice bright colors but not over-saturated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alun Posted December 31, 2010 Share #4 Posted December 31, 2010 THere's a ton of good films left to shoot. While it's true that the industry is widely predicting the now-foreseeable end of E6 processing, there are -- as others have said -- still great films out there, including Fuji's Provia, *the* most pushable film next to Tri-X, but increasingly expensive. On the other hand, lots of great and very good colour print films including Fuji (virtually any of them, really, including the excellent value consumer line, Superia), Kodak Portra (both in the existing and the newly reformulated versions). And then there's more B&W neg film than you can shake a stick at, including Tri-X, all the Ilford films (including the wonderful C41 processing XP2 Super), theFuji B&Ws.... And many of these films engineered to a level that would have been merely a dream twenty or thirty years ago... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted December 31, 2010 Share #5 Posted December 31, 2010 Astia is being discontinued. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchontoast Posted January 1, 2011 Share #6 Posted January 1, 2011 I hope not! +1 for those film choices. Astia 1000F has almost invisible grain. E100G is also worth trying -- nice bright colors but not over-saturated. David I assume you're talking Astia 100F? Also - nothing wrong with a bit of grain! kai Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZDavid Posted January 1, 2011 Share #7 Posted January 1, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) David I assume you're talking Astia 100F? Also - nothing wrong with a bit of grain! kai Well spotted, the 1000F with invisible grain would be novel; an inadvertent extra 0! I'd prefer to avoid grain myself, and big blow-ups on Astia appear as grainless as digital. There appears to be plenty of film still in stock via mail order from B&H in NYC -- a very good source. 100G has more saturated colors. A lot depends on processing and scanning. A projected slide is still unbeatable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunbird Posted January 2, 2011 Author Share #8 Posted January 2, 2011 Thanks for the replies... (As said in my earlier post I had a short time where I was shooting transparency film on an M6 before being tempted by the M8) Thinking about it from a different angle, is there any reason to shoot transparency over negative film given that the end result isn't necessarily going to be projected or printed as in the conventional analogue way? My desire to revisit film is for the depth and 'warmth' that colours are rendered. Perhaps those results could be achieved using negative film / process and scan. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZDavid Posted January 2, 2011 Share #9 Posted January 2, 2011 Projection is fun, but even if you don't, slide film has some advantages: - archiving: easier to find and view slides in plastic sleeves than orange-hued negatives. - what you see is what you get. Easier to match original against scanned version. - easier to scan (maybe) - richer colors, clarity, luminosity, contrast (but subjective). - price, maybe, probably close. It's worth trying several films to see which you prefer. For example, Kodak E100G, Fuji Astia 100F (slides), Kodak Ektar 100, Fuji Pro 400H (print). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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