Slide Film

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Hey guys,

Just wondering if anyhody has ever used slide film before. Its something I've got to do for one of my assessments at college, and I was wondering if anybody knew anything about it. Such as, where is the best place to buy it? Where is a good place to get the film turned into slides? Does it work just like normal film? Any Information is greatly appreciated.

Thank You :)
 
Slide film has a narrower exp range than normal film, so don't go for highly contrasty images

Unless you 'cheat' what you shoot is what you get

Buy process-included film as it's overall cheaper (if i remember rightly)

It's wonderful stuff, and these days a waste of space/time/money

HTH!
 
any photographic shop will do it, maybe even boots??

Thing with Slide is its not very tollerent.. with neg you can over expose / under expose and correct in printing, but slide isnt as nice...
i like slide though..
 
I used to like shooting slide (reversal) film. There's no printing stage, which is where your average high street processor is likely to cock things up, so pretty safe in that respect. It used to be considered good practice to under-expose slide film by about half a stop for good colour saturation due to the fact it was viewed by projection. In practice to achieve that you'd just set the ISO for half a stop under exposure and forget it.. for example 200 IS0 film, you'd set the ISO to 300

If you buy slide film suitable for E6 (home) processing, you can develop it yourself. Once the film is in the developing tank, you can complete the whole process in the light in the kitchen or bathroom. Apart from the tank you'd just need a thermometer and two or three measuring beakers. You can get E6 chemicals in a complete kit from any decent photographic shop and the same with the slide mounts.

The biggest trouble with slide film is there's a much narrower temperature tolerance throughout the process than negative film, but it's something I reckon you just might enjoy having a go at.
 
I love slide film- but as others have pointed out it's usefullness in these digital days is questionable. Fujichrome Velvia 50 used to be the film of choice for the landscape photographer because of it's fantasticaly vivid colours. Before that Kodachrome 25 & Kodachrome 64 films were popular amongst pro's. Kodachrome 25 has been discontinued, Velvia 50 was discontinued but has been bought back by popular demand- that's how good it is! You should be able to buy the Fujichrome Velvia 50 in any good photo store. I still buy mine online from 7dayshopper where it is very cheap.

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/pro...83&PHPSESSID=aa4a7fd572afcd4f15f87b02626bc7ab

Chewyuk supplied me a slide scanner recently which I'm still getting to grips with but here are some of my initial slide scans with Fuji Velvia 50 slide film:
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A good quality 35mm slide scan should give results like a 20Mp camera!
 
Boots do process paid for £7.99 (36 exp). I shoot about 2 rolls a year as our camera club still has slide battles with neighbouring clubs.
 
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Slide film is beautifull, and its actually real.
If you plan on processing your own, I'd recommend doing some b/w first, just to get the hang of....stuff, it can be developed at room temperature 20 degrees.
Slide film (transparencies) does have a narrower exposure range, but you can bracket and virtually guarentee a decent exposure, the real difficulty is the temperature its developed at, 35 degrees, so you need some way to maintain this temperature very accurately in all the baths during processing.
If your gonna send it out, choose a pro lab, dont use Asda, snappy-flippin-pics or any of those other crappy places.
It might be a quid dearer but at least they know what they're doing.
Anymore irrelevant film narks, like "waste" & "not usefull" and I shall unleash the death of digital verbal doomsday rocket....and smite thee satans with great vengeance and furrrrious anger, those who would attempt to poison m.....eh....ehem.......:)
 
Im with lj99 kodachrome 25 & 64 were my fav's and i even miss it, but you have to move with the times and thats digital. If you get some underexpose by a third to half stop
and think about what you are shooting do your homework first , get it right first time and youll love it . yours gwh
 
I buy film from 7dayshop and processing at dlab7. they're about the cheapest i've found so far. sorry both sites are down at the moment but a quick google should find them easily. hope this helps, ben:)
 
joxby said:
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Because you've been told to and we all have to bow to the superiority of digital over the archaic chemical processes we used to use in the dark ages. :bat: :rules:

You just need to forget that it it still produces a vastly superior image to a digital file, even from something as small and pointless as a 35mm camera. You might as well, while you're at it, forget about how much fun it is to use and the enormous buzz of having to wait to see your images and then getting those beauties onto a lightbox for the first time.

pffft, really. How could you even ask? :shrug:
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Don't encourage him Cheryl. :D
 
Thank you for all your help. I think I am going to send it off for processing because there is a massive chance I'll mess it up. :D
 
dazzajl said:
Because you've been told to and we all have to bow to the superiority of digital over the archaic chemical processes we used to use in the dark ages. :bat: :rules:

You just need to forget that it it still produces a vastly superior image to a digital file, even from something as small and pointless as a 35mm camera. You might as well, while you're at it, forget about how much fun it is to use and the enormous buzz of having to wait to see your images and then getting those beauties onto a lightbox for the first time.

pffft, really. How could you even ask? :shrug:
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duh.........ok...

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