Film Types

I RA4 print a few 'keepers' every other month with a tabletop processer and enlarger.
It's usally not very difficult to get acceptable results.
I've tried V750 and Opticfilm and the colors and tonality just don't look the same.
The only scanner that gets it right is the frontier and I doubt that Portra, Ektar etc. is easier to scan than Natura on a frontier.

Scan your E-6 and print your color negs using RA4. I love the results.

If you are going to have optical prints made on RA4 paper Ektar is the most suitable film for what you want. Portra and 400H are less saturated and the consumer films not available AFAIK in 120.

Yes you can also do as suggested and shoot Velvia and have it scanned then output to RA4, but slide/chrome/whatever film has a very narrow range. Exposure is much more critical and even slightly high contrast scenes present a choice of losing highlight detail or shadow detail, or maybe some of both. Velvia is worse in this regard than Provia. Unless I were able to control the lighting or going into very well known, fairly low contrast lighting (overcast days for example) I would still favor the Ektar when the intended output is prints. But I admit I've never really gotten along with Velvia. I do shoot slides for projection, but mainly Provia and my dwindling frozen stock of E100G.

It doesn't do you any good now but the old Agfa Ultra 50 was the closest thing to a negative film with Velvia- like saturation I've ever seen. There are only a minority of times I really like over the top saturation but when I did want that, boy did it deliver. I still miss it.

B&Wpositive said:

Yup. Transparency, slide, chrome, reversal...even "diapositive" all refer to the same thing. Are there any other terms I've (we've) missed?? Probably...

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Well, my German in-laws refer to all the above as "Dias", (short for "diapositives"). In the olden times we just referred to them as "Kodachromes, Ektachromes, Agfachromes", etc. Everyone, who used them knew these were "slides" because they ended in "chromes". Oh yes, there were also "Anscochromes"..........Regards!

Here in Holland we also call a slide a "dia" (plural = dias) instead of slide(s). We never call it "chromes" overhere.

The Dutch word "dia" is short for "positieve foto om te projecteren" (translated: positive photo for projection).
The term "diapositief" meant "positieve fotoplaat" in about 1916 (translated: positive photo plate).

And "kleurendia" means "colour slide"

"Transparency film" should best be regarded as general term hinting at ALL materials intendend for viewing in transmitted light. Nonwithstanting the employed proces (thus E-6, RA-4, chromolytic, diffusion etc., etc.)

The ending "-chrom" or "-chrome" often hinted at b&W films in the past.