Does anyone still use Color Correction Filters when shooting slides?I

[Kino]

I ask this question because I ran across a set of 6 Tiffen Photar Series 8 glass filters in their original leather case while throwing out a ton of odds and ends from my photo pile. They have been in a box for decades, but seem to be in good shape other than needing a good cleaning.

Anyone take the time to use them now days?

 

[lantau]

I do. Provia, both 100F and 400X do get quite blue late in the day in shaded areas. And I've read Drews comments about Ektar, which can benefit from them, as well. So I stocked up on 85 Series filters in 55mm and 67mm size, which will cover most of my lenses. Some with adapter.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Only Skylight 1A or UV with all film.

 

[Photomultiplier]

Just 81B mainly for Provia 100F to tame the blue cast under some lighting conditions like open shade, but also sometimes under normal conditions because i like the slightly warmer look. If the blue channel is blown out, nothing in post processing can rescue it.

 

[benjiboy]

Just 81B mainly for Provia 100F to tame the blue cast under some lighting conditions like open shade, but also sometimes under normal conditions because i like the slightly warmer look. If the blue channel is blown out, nothing in post processing can rescue it.

Me too, I shoot mainly Fuji Provia 100 F and a 52mm 81B is the only colour temperature filter I have, fortunately, all my prime Canon FD lenses from 20 to 200mm use that size, but my FD 20 - 35 L, 35 - 105, and 80 -200 zooms use much bigger filter sizes, I quite frankly can't afford.

 

[AgX]

I do not understand "still" in the title. Kino, what has changed meanwhile?

The thread is filed under "analog", thus taking on film for scanning does not apply here. Also, you speak explicitely of "slides".
Do I overlook something?

 

[Chan Tran]

Back in the old days I used filter to color correct when shooting with tungsten lighting as I used only daylight film.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Alex Burke recommends 81B warming filter with Provia. With other films, it depends. The Blue can't be corrected basically in post. So if you're shooting in a deep valley or around twilight and don't want blue in your picture, then use it. He uses his digital camera setting it on Daylight to determine if there is too much blue. If it looks too blue on the LED screen, then he'll use the 81B.

 

[Chan Tran]

Alex Burke recommends 81B warming filter with Provia. With other films, it depends. The Blue can't be corrected basically in post. So if you're shooting in a deep valley or around twilight and don't want blue in your picture, then use it. He uses his digital camera setting it on Daylight to determine if there is too much blue. If it looks too blue on the LED screen, then he'll use the 81B.

You shoot slides and correct in post?

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

You shoot slides and correct in post?

I don't understand. Please elaborate.

 

[Chan Tran]

I don't understand. Please elaborate.

You said can't correct in post. I think if you shoot slides there is not post processing possible.

 

[benjiboy]

You said can't correct in post. I think if you shoot slides there is not post-processing possible.

There isn't for me, you can't post-process slide film and then project it.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

I don;t project slide film anymore with slide projectors. I do create digital slide shows from them to display on my 4K TV, monitor, and on the web.

I post-process slide film. First off there's cropping, eliminating dust spots, etc after scanning them. Then there have to be adjustments after the scan to bring back the original colors, exposure, contrast, etc.

 

[Sirius Glass]

The thing is, slides are not "all film". The very essence of color reversal film is, that you need to give him the light it is balanced for. No possibility to do it after exposure.

True, but filters protect all lenses and the Skylight 1A and UV filters cuts haze even for films that are not slides.

 

[Chan Tran]

I don;t project slide film anymore with slide projectors. I do create digital slide shows from them to display on my 4K TV, monitor, and on the web.

I post-process slide film. First off there's cropping, eliminating dust spots, etc after scanning them. Then there have to be adjustments after the scan to bring back the original colors, exposure, contrast, etc.

I get you but I wouldn't shoot slides today to convert them to digital. I can simply shoot digital.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I don;t project slide film anymore with slide projectors. I do create digital slide shows from them to display on my 4K TV, monitor, and on the web.

I post-process slide film. First off there's cropping, eliminating dust spots, etc after scanning them. Then there have to be adjustments after the scan to bring back the original colors, exposure, contrast, etc.

It sounds like a make work project to keep you out of the way of your wife.

 

[benjiboy]

I get you but I wouldn't shoot slides today to convert them to digital. I can simply shoot digital.

I get you but I wouldn't shoot slides today to convert them to digital. I can simply shoot digital.

I get you but I wouldn't shoot slides today to convert them to digital. I can simply shoot digital.

Whatever works for you Chan, but can't afford a decent digital S.L.R., and if I had one I would have to start getting my head around Photoshop and buy a better monitor and a photo-quality inkjet printer. I probably wouldn't use the four wonderful Canon F1s I have and would lose the opportunity to bore my friends and family rigid with my work.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Whatever works for you Chan, but can't afford a decent digital S.L.R., and if I had one I would have to start getting my head around Photoshop and buy a better monitor and a photo-quality inkjet printer. I probably wouldn't use the four wonderful Canon F1s I have and would lose the opportunity to bore my friends and family rigid with my work.

And you would have to upgrade your computer to a newer and faster model and then RENT all that pesky software.

 

[ic-racer]

Yes, without the availability of Cibachrome, all correction now must now be done in -camera. The other possibility is to print them to instax, but I don't know of a commercially available unit to do this. I have done it under my enlarger.

 

[benjiboy]

I don;t project slide film anymore with slide projectors. I do create digital slide shows from them to display on my 4K TV, monitor, and on the web.

I post-process slide film. First off there's cropping, eliminating dust spots, etc after scanning them. Then there have to be adjustments after the scan to bring back the original colors, exposure, contrast, etc.

What Alan

And you would have to upgrade your computer to a newer and faster model and then RENT all that pesky software.

I do have a new powerful computer only a year old Steve, but it just now occurs to me that to take advantage of this set of colour temperature filters one needs a colour temperature meter to determine what correction is required,and they are very expensive.

 

[Chan Tran]

Whatever works for you Chan, but can't afford a decent digital S.L.R., and if I had one I would have to start getting my head around Photoshop and buy a better monitor and a photo-quality inkjet printer. I probably wouldn't use the four wonderful Canon F1s I have and would lose the opportunity to bore my friends and family rigid with my work.

I started out shooting slides back in the late 70's but then in the 80's I got into darkroom work so I started doing color negative. But the difficulty of getting darkroom supplies and the cost of film I got me a full frame DSLR 9 years ago. I got rid of the darkroom so I got back to shooting slides which I don't need any post processing like the color negativesl

 

[benjiboy]

I started out shooting slides back in the late 70's but then in the 80's I got into darkroom work so I started doing color negative. But the difficulty of getting darkroom supplies and the cost of film I got me a full frame DSLR 9 years ago. I got rid of the darkroom so I got back to shooting slides which I don't need any post
processing like the color negativesl

I'm in my eighties Chan, and I don't have the financial resources to buy a digital camera or the patience to learn photography all over again, anyway if I had a digital camera I wouldn't get to use my four Canon F1s and my extensive F.D. lens collection that I really enjoy using. I'm happy to be able to use what I have for the rest of my life

 

[Chan Tran]

I'm in my eighties Chan, and I don't have the financial resources to buy a digital camera or the patience to learn photography all over again, anyway if I had a digital camera I wouldn't get to use my four Canon F1s and my extensive F.D. lens collection that I really enjoy using. I'm happy to be able to use what I have for the rest of my life

I don't use Canon but I am happy to use my Nikon F3 for the rest of my life but the cost the difficulty of getting film supplies is getting harder each day. Most people with darkroom here do B&W but B&H cant ship RA=4 chemicals any more. My local store is a very larger store yet the clerks laugh at me when I asked the for film.

 

[benjiboy]

I don't use Canon but I am happy to use my Nikon F3 for the rest of my life but the cost the difficulty of getting film supplies is getting harder each day. Most people with darkroom here do B&W but B&H cant ship RA=4 chemicals anymore. My local store is a very larger store yet the clerks laugh at me when I asked the for film.

Chan that's my dilemma, I can't afford to go digital, and slide film and processing is so expensive, I think my best option is to go back to shooting monochrome.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Chan that's my dilemma, I can't afford to go digital, and slide film and processing is so expensive, I think my best option is to go back to shooting monochrome.

If you shoot without film, you get the enjoyment of photographing without the costs and fuss of getting the film processed.