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[Diapositivo]

I had to laugh at a couple of statements:

"Unlike screens, slide film doesn't have pixels."

"Your Instagrams are 'melted' on to a single frame of Kodak film, which is then processed in a similar way to how analogue films are developed, except in full colour."

It means you will not get "Impossible project" colours or "Lomography" colours. You will get full colours. "Real" colours as in red will appear red, blue willl appear blue, and yellow will appear yellow (green will appear green as well, you get the point).

 

[Chan Tran]

Well film has been around for a very long time. Any devices that make good use of film have been invented but if people invent silly devices that use film I am all for it. Of course I won't be buying any of these devices.

 

[Film-Niko]

I hope that by this project new, young photographers get in contact with film (maybe for the first time).
And that they enjoy it.
My second hope is that they then get a bit further and explore the new media in more detail. Discovering the unique qualities of real 35mm slides projected with a good 35mm slide projector (the hint to real slide projection is already given in the introduction video).

And then they see that 35mm slide projection (and of course 120 projection, too) delivers an outstanding quality which significantly surpass digital projection.

During the last years I've compared (together with some other experienced photographers) all new beamers to slide projection:
And in all cases the beamers (even the most expensive 10,000 bucks examples) had absolutely no chance in direct comparison to slide projection with a good projection lens.
The resolution, sharpness, color brillance and color tonality of the slides significantly surpasses all beamers to a very great extent.
With beamer technology you pay 3,500 bucks for a 35 MP DSLR, and then you pay another 10,000 bucks for a beamer.
And the beamers reduce your 35 MP to the extremely low values of 2-4 MP.
It is absolutely ridiculous what the industry is offering here: Vastly overpriced gear which gives much too low quality.

But with slide projection you get outstanding quality at very low prices.

 

[Chan Tran]

Right! The weakness of digital has to do with on screen display. The best of them is only about 5MP which is very expensive and yet far less than a 35mm slide projector.

 

[Diapositivo]

The weird thing is that nobody really simply tries to "sell" the beauty of a projected slide or, in general, of proper film technology.
It's always "something else": weird colours, random results, tiny images, nostalgic feelings, vinyl-vs-CD, etc.
Anyway, whatever can bring the happy few to the magic of film and whatever can keep it alive is welcome in any case.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

if it helps sell slide film ...

The images are supposed to be 'melted' onto Kodak film.

Kodak doesn't make slide film. This thing uses movie release film - which Kodak does make. I imagine a buying a few 'short ends' will keep them in business for the life of the product, which may even now be over.