Do you still shoot 35mm transparency and why?

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Kids in the equation, huh? You can have one passion or the other, but not both!

And...$20 for a roll of 120 E6?? I wold leave E6 altogether if it cost that for processing. What are you asking for additional to straight processing and no cutting/mounting?
Still, the revelation, however uncomfortable, that Velvia can be dipped in coffee as a substitute process is quite...'out there', innovative if you like. As I write this I can hear my cache of Velvia whimpering in the fridge...
 

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well, 20$ was a bit of an exaggeration, but if you count shipping both ways ? who knows
maybe it is more like 12-15$ ... ( i have like 75-100 rolls !)
yeap, my kids are eating me out of house and home ..
and with the rising price of fresh fruit and veggies YIKES !
its a good thing i only buy fresh chems, i wouldn't be able to afford this rich person's hobby
unless i was loaded.
 

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I use 35mm transparency film regularly (Elite Chrome, E100G, Velvia 50) and will do so until my Kodak hoard runs out or Fuji cease production. I adore the colours and I love the way the red colour layer leaps out when viewed through a mini-viewer. Projected slides are amazing and I doubt I'll ever get the equivalent resolution through any LCD projector or UHD TV screen I'll ever be able to afford. I like to hold them up in the daylight and look at the details close-up with my enlarging lens. Dare I say I really enjoy the smell of fresh transparency film? There's something mmm that I don't get from negative and b/w film.

I've had several rolls of Agfa VistaPlus 200 cross-processed to transparencies with some encouraging quirky results.

I'm new here, but I think I'm in the right place judging by the comments above.
 

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Diapositivo said:
I use slide film for stock photography. I don't mount any more, only scan them. Lightbox and loupe are a very satisfying way to look at them. Negatives can't offer that.
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I've started experimenting with Ektar neg film for stock. Slide film, especially Fuji is just getting too expensive (£9 a 35mm roll in UK, and that's without processing). ....Am also trying out Agfa Precisa 100asa, which is still reasonably priced. Since the financial return from stock photography has declined dramatically, film cost has to come into the equation.
 

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LEAFotography said:
Dare I say I really enjoy the smell of fresh transparency film? There's something mmm that I don't get from negative and b/w film.
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Oh my goodness. I thought I was the only one nuts enough to enjoy the smell of fresh transparency film.

Welcome home to APUG, I think you're gonna like it here.
 

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I plan to as long as the cost per roll is fair. Last month I bought 3 5 packs of velvia 50 and 3 5 packs of velvia 100 for $34 each from amazon. Looked today and they have gone up $7 per 5 pack. at this rate I'll be out soon. I love shooting film but I have my D700 process down to the point of taking and producing great pictures and prints. Nothing can compare to a great slide show but at what cost. Do I really want to pick up $500-$1,000 worth of film?
 
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I really don't shoot enough 35mm slide. I found I tended to use my 35mm (Nikon F4) like a medium format (tripod, mirror lock-up etc) and so moved to medium format. The problem being that the medium format is heavy, so I don't take it out as often as I used to when using 35mm. I recently had another look through John Shaw's Close-ups in Nature, which always inspires me, and of course all that is taken on 35mm slide, much of in on the much-missed Kodachrome 25. There is still one of my slides taken on an Olympus OM-1 with a tamron 28mm on K25 blown up to about 16"x20" in the foyer of a college that I visit sometimes, and it still looks great. Must do more...must do more....
 

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LEAFotography said:
I use 35mm transparency film regularly (Elite Chrome, E100G, Velvia 50) and will do so until my Kodak hoard runs out or Fuji cease production.
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Welcome to Apug!


Aside transparency films by Kodak and Fuji there is also fresh Agfa 200ASA transparency film available: rebranded in 35mm long roll, types 135, 120 and 127.
 

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I keep film cost low by buying on the internet film in bulk quantities with a near expiry date, or alreday expired since a little time, by a reliable (professional) seller. The last batch of films I bought were Fuji Sensia 100, I paid some €3.40 per roll, shipping is spread on the large purchase and so becomes a little aggravation to the total cost. I keep film in the fridge (both virgin and impressed).

The next bulk purchase will probably be Agfaphoto Precisa but I do have some Rollei 200 CR in the fridge that I have to develop, I'll see how those perform, they are supposed to be much grainier than ordinary 100 ISO film (and also grainier than more modern 200 ISO film) but that is not necessarily a problem especially for stock photography. Rollei 200 CR is also available as bulk film (100ft rolls) and that begins being quite inexpensive indeed.
 

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The AgfaPhoto Precisa may be not Agfa film at all.
 

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AgX said:
The AgfaPhoto Precisa may be not Agfa film at all.
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It is believed to be Fuji Provia with less stringent quality controls.

AgfaPhoto is just a brand and is not to be confused with Agfa-Gevaert, which is the producer of the aerial film sold in the photographic market with the Rollei brand. So Rollei is not Rollei but Agfa, AgfaPhoto is not Agfa but Fuji...
 

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Funny. I was scanning some ancient kodachromes recently and decided to actually project some. I had not done this in years. What was telling was that a young guy who had not really seen Kodachrome before was blown away. I was too. I had recently scanned a lot of them on a V700 at a high res, and thought they looked good until I projected them. We have bunch of nice 60" displays here but the kodachromes looked nicer on our old projector in our opinion. Kodachrome is gone but the fuji E6 I have kicking around will be saved from Xpro as I will make it into slides.
 

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I've shot about fifteen rolls of 35mm transparency this year. Sadly, my preferred Kodak Elite Chrome stock is about to run out, so it will be over to Fuji. I use transparencies for holiday, travelling and industrial archaeology recording (some of which overlap). I use transparencies as these lend themselves to showing to groups, sometimes four or five family members, sometimes 25+ for club/group lectures and occasionally 100 or so. Though transparencies can work out expensive, in practice I don't get the opportunity to shoot transparency-type subjects too often, so the expenditure is by necessity limited. Other (arty, or so I like to think!) work is b/w, home processed.
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I prefer slide film when doing landscape photography which is mostly what I take. Otherwise I do black and white, mostly because that seems to be the only film that has any variation in it anymore. The Kodak Chromes are gone, Fuji is the only company left, and they are paring back their offerings. Fall foliage shots are by far the best way to show off what chromes can do. When I can afford it, I would love to get a large format camera and see what chromes do at 8x10.
 

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Besides costing a metric arse-ton of money to create?

They're impressive on a light box but that's hardly a good display medium. And even if you put them on a backlighted frame or the like, E6 will fade pretty rapidly if continuously lighted. You can get, or used to could get and I think maybe still can, RA4 material for backlit display.

Or of course you can scan and do anything you can do with any other scan, but then there's not that much advantage to the 8x10 over the much more affordable to produce 4x5 (or maybe, depending on the scanner, medium format, but a flat bed does a decent job with LF. Not a drum scan, sure, but pretty good none the less.)
 

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Roger Cole said:
Besides costing a metric arse-ton of money to create?
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Awww now Roger... Don't be scaring everyone off.

8x10 Fujifilm Provia 100F at B&H is only US$11.00/sheet, less shipping. And Dead Link Removed in your own Atlanta, is only an additional US$6.00/ sheet. No shipping as you could likely deliver and pick it up yourself.

That's only US$17.00/sheet. Not inexpensive, to be sure. But if you already own an 8x10 camera and don't have a 250-exposure motor drive attached to it, that's not really very much. Especially just to be able to say you've done it once or twice.

I'm considering giving it a try when we have our annual 3-week summer and the rains momentarily pause sometime next August.



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MattKing said:
I've been shooting 120 transparency film since Kodachrome went away.

But I have a medium format projector.
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I haven't shot any normal 35mm slide film since Kodachrome went away (since January 2011....uhhh I mean, December 2010... Yea that's it.... I swear I didn't make a deal to be shooting after the deadline....hehe)

but I've shot a bunch of 120 slide film (Velvia and some of my frozen Ektachrome epp stock) and a few rolls of Provia/Velvia 35mm but in a panorama camera.

Hardly ANY color negatives, and mostly expired B&W

I'd say 5% CN
35% transparency
60% B&W neg

0% B&W transparency but I REALLY want to do some, just haven't put in the time for the research yet...

And why? I guess it's sort of a silly reason, I just like the way it looks on a light box, it's easy to tell which image is the one I want best, and it's a bit harder to shoot properly, I think that's part of it too, I like the challenge and it forces me to be more accurate and hone my skills just a bit more.

But again, not really 35mm, only MF these days, so I guess I'm with the poster of the thread, I hardly shoot any true 35mm... Sad days ahead boys(and girls).


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Whoops, sorry for all the tag lines, still getting used to this app...

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