POLL: Do you still shoot and project slides?

[Steve Roberts]

YES & YES!
I still shoot and project 35mm colour slides, both at home and sometimes publically (clubs, WIs etc.). That's the only thing I do with them, ie no scanning. At home, the screen has my own patented "Easy-Hang" system ("E-Z Hang" should I ever export to the States!) ie two bent bits of metal that position it correctly for projection from the table at the other end of the living room. (Biggest hassle is clearing the table of accumulated crap!) Even installed a special mains socket for the projector.
As with traditional camera gear, there's never been a better time to buy second hand projection accessories, and in the last two or three years I've fixed myself up with all kinds of lenses, timers, spares, etc. for next to no money. Totally committed to the convenience, reliability, affordability and repairability of the Kodak Carousel body, but why ever did Kodak saddle that projector with some rather poor lenses?

Steve

 

[Film Enthusiast]

Yes, I shoot and project color and BW slides. I love slides. It is a unique medium, unsurpassed concerning brillance, color saturation and sharpness.

I like to project my slides on the worlds best projection screen: da-lite picture king high power. This screen is a dream, extremely brillant with absolutely neutral colors. And very well built, rock solid.
I also like to look at my slides through my Schneider loupes (top optical quality). I use the 3x for MF and the 4x for 35mm.

I hate looking at pictures on computer monitors. It's a very bad medium for that purpose, extremely low resolution (in most cases lower than 1MP), and the colors are not satisfying at all, even with calibration.

I will shoot even more slides in the future.

Regards,
Michael

 

[Snapshot]

Yes, as I have over 90 rolls of slide film in freezer. I also picked up a back-up projector, now surprisingly cheap on eBay. Projecting the slide are half the fun, at least the person who took the shots.

 

[Uhner]

Yes, I still shoot and project them.

 

[Lee L]

I shoot color slides and project them (as well as shooting color and B&W negs). My 16 year old shoots almost exclusively color slides, which are, I think, the best feedback on your technique. So I'm glad he's training properly at a young age.

We were recently visiting my mom and her husband and looked at slides on three consecutive evenings. My 16 year old was very impressed by the difference between a fixed 90mm f:2.5 Colorplan CF (curved field for non-glass mounts) projector lens and a Kodak zoom lens used 24 hours later. I think a lot of people miss out on appreciating their projected slides because of the poor quality lenses that became prevalent when cheap zooms became standard on slide projectors, mostly for convenience. A poor projector lens is a terrible thing to impose on the results from fine camera lenses.

Lee

 

[oldglass]

I just recently warming up to shooting slides. Armed with expired (several years) Ektachromes, I shot two rolls on 135 and one on 120 that just had me speechless.

And I have just got my first Kodakchrome roll back (first ever!). Sweet stuff.

As for projecting, I don't think I'll go that route unless I can get a projector for 6x9 slides cheap enough.

 

[David Henderson]

Yes, all my film colour work is slide and all those I select for mounting are projected at least once on a 6x6 or 67 projector. I still give a few presentations to camera clubs as projected MF slides- and many in the audiences haven't seen this before.

 

[thuggins]

I shoot them and view them in a slide viewer. Why would you waste all that beautiful color and resolution by just scanning them to view on a monitor?

 

[Woolliscroft]

Yes to both. I still use a slide projector in my University lecturing, despite pressure to switch to Powerpoint: the detail resolution is way better. If I take a picture that I know I am likely to want to project I usually take more than one image, so that I have one to archive and at least one to project.

David.

 

[ernie51]

It's been awhile since I hauled out the old Carousel. But now I'm thinking a good way to spend a winters evening is in the glow of the Kodachromes. CHA-CHUNK, CLICK, CHA-CHUNK,CLICK..........
Ernie

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Yes to both. I still use a slide projector in my University lecturing, despite pressure to switch to Powerpoint: the detail resolution is way better. If I take a picture that I know I am likely to want to project I usually take more than one image, so that I have one to archive and at least one to project.

David.

Me too, in my own classroom, and I'll often shoot several duplicates of a slide I plan to project. But it's getting harder and harder, particularly at conferences or when I'm giving a visiting lecture, where they've got a computer set up for projection and everyone just brings their images on a flash drive, usually because they don't know how to make their own slides and they just take stuff off the web or scan illustrations from books. Another issue is that sometimes I need to show something that's only easily available in electronic form, and it's easier to scan my 35mm slides than to make slides from a relatively low-resolution image available on the internet.

 

[Glenn M]

I shoot LF 4x5 and MF 6x7 or 6x8 and rarely 35mm. But for all I shoot predominantly slides, view them on a lightbox, and scan/process only the best. My projector hasn't been removed from the closet in years. The reason for shooting slides: Velvia most commonly used film (along with Astia and Provia).
-Glenn-

 

[benjiboy]

I shoot both 35mm and 6x6 Slides,and project them with a Rollei 6006 projector(takes both 35mm and 6x6)on to a 60"x60"white screen.

 

[Paul Goutiere]

Projecting slides, even using a old Ektagraphic AF2 still beats any video projector I've seen. Projected slided are obviously more vibrant.
But I've not seen all the video projectors yet, and I'm curious if anyone knows of a digital projection system better than, or as good as a slide projector.

 

[Matt5791]

I shot 1200 slides in India in October and I've projected them all several times now to various family and friends - As long as you construct a decent slection and weed out duplication (nobody wants to see or is interested in your bracketing!) and the subject is interesting, it can be very entertaining.

There isn't really a better way see slides - projected 5ft wide in a darkened room - it feels like you are looking through a window.

Matt

 

[Rombo]

Sometimes is my Leica Pradovit P-150 instead of television. I really like to shot diafilm, process it at home, mount into slides (CS only), all by myself. My kids like to watch projections.
I have also Malinverno 6X6 autofocus medium format projector, but I really do not use it as often as Pradovit.

 

[PHOTOTONE]

I might start shooting slides and developing E-6. I have processed E-2 and E-4 film in the past.

Steve

Finally, another APUG member old enough to have done E-2 thru E-4 slide processing. If you remember those processes, then doing E-6 will be like a vacation, it is so easy. I started processing with E-2 also, as a kid.

 

[MP_Wayne]

After 30+ years of shooting and projecting slides almost exclusively, I have migrated more of my shooting toward medium format and 4x5 (both negs and chromes).

My 35mm slide shooting has slowed, but not disappeared. Also, I have acquired a passion to produce computer-based multi-media presentations from my images from all film types and formats. I used to do it with only 35mm slides, but the improved quality of the HDTV displays (and presentation software) has made the ability to use all of my formats possible and more cost effective.

I still enjoy an original projection of a color slide (which is why I still have one 35mm projector around), but the development of HDTV grade multimedia presentations from a mix of 35mm, MF and LF negs is an enjoyable pursuit too.

 

[gr82bart]

Yes. 99% of the time. I don't project them though.

Regards, Art.

 

[airgunr]

Still shoot and then review the slides on a projector. The ones in the initial cut are then taken to the light table and further sorted. The remaining are then scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED. Some are printed others are shared, very few are burned and sent to places like A&I for professional quality printing.

 

[JanaM]

.....It is a unique medium, unsurpassed concerning brilliance, color saturation and sharpness.

...Michael

Hi Michael,

yes, that's it. Nothing else is comparable to slides. It is indeed a uniqe, unsurpassed medium. I love shooting slides, too, color and BW (Agfa SCALA, Rollei Superpan 200, Rollei IR).

My friends are always very impressed when I show them slides, projected on screen or with my excellent Schneider loupes. Especially the digital photographers . Most of them only know their low-resolution computer monitors.

I will keep on shooting slides till I die.

Best regards,
Jana

 

[Jacques D.]

Hi Michael,

yes, that's it. Nothing else is comparable to slides. It is indeed a uniqe, unsurpassed medium. I love shooting slides, too, color and BW (Agfa SCALA, Rollei Superpan 200, Rollei IR).

My friends are always very impressed when I show them slides, projected on screen or with my excellent Schneider loupes. Especially the digital photographers . Most of them only know their low-resolution computer monitors.

I will keep on shooting slides till I die.

Best regards,
Jana

Indeed, nothing compares to slides...I shoot a lot, both in color (Velvia 50 & 100, E100VS) and black & white (Pan-F, Foma R100, Rollei PAN 25, APX-100, TMX100, Efke CHS25...) The best process for b&w slides is dr5 in Denver, Colorado. Definitely worth the wait (about 3 weeks if you live in Europe like me) and for their quality and service, the price is not excessive.

To enjoy slides it is important, to have a good projector. My Leica P2002 is still delivering the goods... I know, I may be a bit conservative, my cameras belong to another era too (Leica III, IIIa, M2, M6, MP, Nikon FM, FM2, F2, FT2). I am just a hobbyist fooling around and having a lot of fun with photography and I cannot imagine that my photography will get any better with all dancing, all singing AF digital camera's...

Jacques

 

[kraker]

...your latest purchase...

Shoot, yes; project, sadly, no.
(...)
I would love to project 6x6. Haven't come across a good deal for a projector, though. (Reminder to self: haven't been looking lately; start looking again!)

Update: shoot, yes; project: yes, any day now, I just have to get me some 6x6 and 6x4.5 mounts.

Woohoo! I found this projector for a good price:

 

[Davesw]

Shoot and Scan mostly. I was fortunate to have inherited a 6x6 projector several years ago, WOW! there is just nothing to compare a 6X6 slide projected on a screen. it is just hard to find the time and audience to do it.

 

[Ozxplorer]

G'day all... I shoot 35mm transparencies - exclusively! For me it is the challenge to capture "THAT" picture & getting it right - first time! The application, discipline and camera craft needed to produce the finished product, for me, beats hours of digital post capture processing in order to end up with an hybrid composite image which is neither photography nor art in the purer sense... No - I'm no "fuddy duddy", I just love the truth of a great well crafted photograph!