POLL: Do you still shoot and project slides?

[Bill Mitchell]

NO for me. It's probably been at least 5 years since I set up a projector. Anything not shot in digital is scanned and only viewed on the computer screen before being printed.

 

[Marc Akemann]

NO for me. It's probably been at least 5 years since I set up a projector. Anything not shot in digital is scanned and only viewed on the computer screen before being printed.

Yes. I shoot mostly 35mm slides (for work & play) and project them "the old fashioned way" all the time. My clients enjoy it. I don't shoot digitally at all.

 

[David H. Bebbington]

Shoot yes, project no. I would really rather shoot color neg but could not find a lab that could process this totally free of drying marks, so I shoot color reversal giving about 2/3 of a stop less exposure than the box speed and scan the results - the pics would be too dark to project anyway.

 

[Konical]

Good Morning, Bill,

Only occasionally do I shoot 35mm slides, but I do use 120 and 4 x 5 transparency film.

Konical

 

[alien]

yes, and yes, all the time.
I usually make a slide show for the past year, with all the things that happened to us.

Ansgar

 

[Craig]

Yes, I do both. I find it much easier to drop slides in a tray and look at them on the big screen than to scan them and look at them on a much smaller, non colour corrected screen.

Maybe I'm spoiled because I picked up a Leica projector quite cheaply? There is a huge difference between looking at slides on a Kodak carousel and a Leica, I couldn't believe it when I got the Leica.

 

[removed account4]

yes shoot, no project

 

[copake_ham]

Yes, I still shoot slides. But only rarely do I now project them. I scan them all and usually just view on the monitor.

 

[dferrie]

I haven't shot slides for about 9-10 years now, last time was when my daugther was a baby, got some nice shots which I eventually printed. I have been shooting mostly colour film, but got a Mamiya M645 last summer and that's bringing me back into B+W. I hadn't thought of slide, but now you have planted the seed ....

David

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

I still shoot them and occasionally project them.

 

[Ian Grant]

It's got to be about 17 years since I last shot colour slides for projection. I used to shoot a lot and do my own E3/4 then E6 processing, often 20+ rolls a month.

I still shoot colour transparency occasionally but only 6x9 or 5x4, although I may begin shooting 6x17. When I had to give some very formal illustrated lectures I did shoot and project B&W slides around 3 years ago and would do the same again.

Ian

 

[Tom Reardon]

Still shoot, but rarely project

 

[Marc Akemann]

Yes, I do both. I find it much easier to drop slides in a tray and look at them on the big screen than to scan them and look at them on a much smaller, non colour corrected screen.

Maybe I'm spoiled because I picked up a Leica projector quite cheaply? There is a huge difference between looking at slides on a Kodak carousel and a Leica, I couldn't believe it when I got the Leica.

Yes, a good lens makes a big difference on a projector. When one spends good money on an expensive camera lens, why project with a cheap projector lens? I put a Schneider Vario-Prolux MC 70-120 f/2.8 on my Kodak and the difference is quite noticeable over the stock Kodak lens that came with the projector. May not match up to a Leica, though.

 

[snallan]

Shoot, yes. Project, no. Though I would love a projector that would handle 4x5, or 5x7 chromes

 

[Jerry Basierbe]

Yes I still shoot. Never project.

Jerry

 

[Mike Wilde]

usually for vacations

I like shooting slides on vacations - because they have such great colour saturation, and then there is the issue of gathering a crowd to view them and everyone on the trip has the chance to add their commentary at the time while a slide is being projected. I alos do it because I have a great archive of slides from my grandfather and father, and would like to have a compatible archive continued for my kids.

My grandfather and dad shot a lot of Kodachome, but, alas, while I love the look, the hassle of sending it out for processing when I do everything else in house is the issue for me. I have done slides from kits, and also from home brew as recently as two years ago. Last summer we went canoe camping in the interior of Algonquin Park, and since my kids, then 7 and 4 are not really big enough to portage or paddle with any great efficiency, bit gear decisions had to be made. In the end it came down to a canon sureshot P&S loaded with c-41 and an Olympus XA loaded with conventional B&W film.

I hope to get back to e-6 in my slr this summer - there are at least 50 rolls iin my frezer of various films waiting for their moment to be exposed.

In medium format I have dabbled in transparencies, and a page of transparencies is nice, but not easy to share, and I am not going to gather all that will be needed to project them.

I was recently given an almost full box of 50 sheets of Astia and a bit of Velvia too in 4x5, so pehaps some nice images will get me mixing up e-6 again this summer.

 

[Doug Smith]

Shoot yes. Look at with loupe over lightbox, yes. Project, not for ages.
Nowadays they get scanned.

Doug

 

[tim_walls]

Yes to both - all my colour stuff is slide without exception. The only reason I don't mount all my 35mm shots these days is the hassle of storage, so I check with the loupe and only project the stuff I want a good look at these days.

I would kill to be able to project my medium and large format stuff...

 

[JBrunner]

Shoot, yes, rarely project, but I always look at them in a viewer, does that count?

 

[Sanjay Sen]

Yes, I still shoot and project 35mm slides - on a Leica projector. Most of my color work is with slides. I also shoot 6x6 slides but don't have a way to project those yet; 4x5 transparencies are (and 8x10 transparencies will be) only for the lightbox.

 

[PHOTOTONE]

I shoot and process plenty of slides (and larger format transparencies), but never project, only scan. I don't even mount 35mm slides, rather I cut them into strips of 6 images, just like negatives and put them into page sleeves. This makes it much easier to scan with a glass carrier on my scanner.

 

[keithwms]

Absolutely. Nothing better. Need to find a medium format projector though, something good for sizes up to 6x9cm.

I use a portable light-table for 4x5 and up.

 

[Robert Kerwin]

While I mainly shoot B&W, on rare occasions I do shoot slides, and yes they get projected.

 

[bdial]

Shoot, yes, I much prefer slide film to color negative. Project, no, my projector sits in the attic where it got stashed when we moved into this house. The keepers get scanned, and prints happen digitally on RA-4, though I have a few that may get sent to Elevator for Cibas. Lately, most of my transparancies are on 120, and I don't have a projector for those anyway, and I no longer get the 35 mounted.

 

[MattKing]

Trying to do more of this, especially since I received as an early Christmas present from my dear wife a used Rollei projector that will do 6x6 or 6x4.5 slides.

I also bought some 35mm Kodachrome on sale that I am working through.

Actually what I really need is a good screen - at home we are lacking in the white wall department.

Matt