Fujicrome iso 400 slide film!

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Hi there! despite knowing quite a bit about B+W photography, Ive just been given a few rolls of fujicrome iso 400 colour slide film by my old photography tutor.

Ive never used slide film before (and rearly shot on colour), so was wondering if anyone could give me some advice about how to shoot with it, what kind of things to expect, the type of colours this films good at etc...

also the camera! I have the choice of my good old trusty Praktica and some lenses, or the nikon F3hp that I was about to sell (would be a good test!) and i'm not sure what lenses!

any advice would be really appreciated!

as a thank you, have a :beer:! :lol:
 
HMM!! Been a while since I have used Fujichrome 400.

I would rate the film at 460ISO (or there abouts) this under exposes the slide film slightly giving a more saturated colour. All Fuji have a biase towards the green end of the spectrum so good for landscapes, but hey never stoped anyone using it for everything else.

Slide film has a narrow exposure window, black and white film can have upto 7 stops latitue, slide film less than a stop, so you need to make sure your metering is good.

Personnaly I would use the NikonF3 as it will have a better metering than the Pracktica. The F3 altough it uses centre weighted metering is infact 60-40 biase towards the centre, so bit like using partcial metering.

On the other had you could just ignore all that use the Pracktica and get ace pictures :D

PS sorry about the spelling I have a fair amout of wine in me.
 
cheers for the advice! I think i will use the praktica (i have more experience and feel with it) i think the glass is better too.

my other issue is what to do with the film after! I can get it developed no problem, but what next? forgive me for the noobness, but can't I turn them into "transparencies" on light boxes (if I enlarge the images?)

And don't worry about spelling! im dislexic:lol:, and wine is a perfect excuse!
 
AleksanderLoesch said:
my other issue is what to do with the film after! I can get it developed no problem, but what next? forgive me for the noobness, but can't I turn them into "transparencies" on light boxes (if I enlarge the images?)
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Slide film can also be called 'transparency', same thing diferent name :suspect:. Think it is becuase you can hold them up to the light and see through them, hence transparency

When developed what you will get back is a 'film strip' or mounted in little plastic holders, for easy storage, projection or scanning.

If you stick them on a light box there will be no enlargement (unless you look at them through a loop or magnifiying glass) but you will be able to marvel at the sharpness, colour etc etc. I think the only way to enlarge them is to scan and print or project them via a film projector (only way yo get one of those these days is off flea bay me thinks :thinking:)

If the place you send to to get the film developed offers the service 'to scan to CD' then that may be something to think about. Mind you I have no idea how much it would add to the cost.

"Noobess" :lol: no such thing every one has to learn and to ask questions is one way of learning.

AleksanderLoesch said:
And don't worry about spelling! im dislexic:lol:, and wine is a perfect excuse!
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Cool but now I hvae no wine the spelling is better but the grammer sucks :bang:
 
I'd use it in your F3. Your Praktica's exposure meter may not be very accurate due to age. This will show up on slide film as it has very little exposure latitude.
 
trinitronfan said:
I'd use it in your F3. Your Praktica's exposure meter may not be very accurate due to age. This will show up on slide film as it has very little exposure latitude.
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how dare you suggest my praktica's light meter is isn't of worthy accuracy!:lol:

Ive tested it (reasonably recently) and I find it works better than most other cameras I have used (other than the 40d). sorry, I love my old east german mass of steel and glass. its hardier than an old war horse!



I know about mounting them on a light box to look nice, but I would like to enlarge the transparencies. I know its dooable, but I dunno how to go about getting it done. I mean something like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesusthatscrap/2542103626/ (the 3 images mounted on lightboxes on the left). I know he used 35mm and had em enlarged! thats what I would like to do.
 
I didn't know you could print on acetate!

I will probably get scanning done at processing, but I have a scanner capable of it at home just in case!)
 
I have loads of old Prakticas. They are actually chrome plated plastic covering a well made diecast chassis. I'm not knocking them at all.
I must admit that I'd like to sell them but they are pretty worthless these days.
I've got LTLs, MTLs, LLCs and PLC3s. I think it's time to put them on that famous internet auction.







AleksanderLoesch said:
how dare you suggest my praktica's light meter is isn't of worthy accuracy!:lol:

Ive tested it (reasonably recently) and I find it works better than most other cameras I have used (other than the 40d). sorry, I love my old east german mass of steel and glass. its hardier than an old war horse!



I know about mounting them on a light box to look nice, but I would like to enlarge the transparencies. I know its dooable, but I dunno how to go about getting it done. I mean something like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesusthatscrap/2542103626/ (the 3 images mounted on lightboxes on the left). I know he used 35mm and had em enlarged! thats what I would like to do.
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haha, I know. i was only joking around.

youve got lots, and i would love to buy lots, but sadly money, and what to spend that money on has other priorities :(
 
I dunno how they do it but CCimaging can put a digital file on to a a 35mm neg.

"Along with hand printing, we offer a copy & duplication service and also the facility to transfer a digital image onto 35mm transparency. Not a lot of people know that we do that, but we do!"

maybe they do print on acetate for really big stuffs......:shrug:

I think shooting 10x8 transparencies with a LF camera would be more fun personally. :)
 
thats not it either (i think...)

perhaps little elves come and do it for you while you sleep.

I would love to have a go at doing some LF transparencies! but if I could afford to, I would have a huge dilemma between that and a leica!

decisions decisions.....

still doesn't make sense though the enlarging of transparencies!

also speaking of 10x8, during my "history of film" unit in my film studies course, they briefly tried to use LF and MF for film production! The quality was way better than HDTV and you could project things onto the side of a mountain from over a kilometer away. the only problem is the cost, and that the bright light needed to project it also burned/melted the film!

good old 35mm...

sorry, random pub-quiz fact there!
 
When shooting slide film I always use a handheld meter as they are far more accurate even if the camera does have its own meter. Also, have a look at BPD Photech as they can print your slides onto cibachrome which look just stunning!! :)
 
i do have a hand-held, but im not so sure on its accuracy (old jessops one with a needle)

will have to replace it when I have the cash!

cheers for the linky! ilfochrome looks amazing!
 
Slides can be duplicated by taking photos of them on slide film!

I don't think it's common practice now but it's certainly "done" to print large/medium format slides on to 35mm slides for reference/distribution purposes.

I'm not 100% sure how slides are made from digital images, but I'd guess they're projected on to the slide.

To make huge transparencies they're normally printed on to acrylic. There are probably other methods but that's the only one I've seen the results of.
 
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