What is your favorite color slide film?

[anon12345]

I picked up a case of this Elite Chrome the other day @ $1.87 a roll (at that time they were listed at $75 for the pack). That's a good price for me. I had quit using slide film (Kodachrome / Ektachrome) back in '85. This Elite stuff didn't turn out half bad.

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I had to get a replacement projector, but now I'm back in business.

 

[Jerevan]

Wolfeye,

that's a pretty darn fine portrait!

 

[hpulley]

I made an assumption that slide film produces better photos than color negative film???? Is that a correct assumption?

They are different, not better or worse unless you need something particular. Slide film is a positive film so you see exactly what you got with no need to print it or scan it to make it look 'correct'. Slide film has less latitude but generally more saturated colours so you must be more bang on with slide film for your exposure.

I always used to prefer chromes when I wanted colour work but lately I've been shooting negative colour as I'm more interested in prints than projecting or using a light table these days.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Recentily Velva 50 and 100. Favorite color, clear!

Jeff

 

[2F/2F]

Fuji T64, and Kodak EPN and EPP, while you can still get them in usable condition. After that, E100G and E100VS new. For something faster, Provia 400X is the bee's knees. That is my go to film for 35mm slides. The others I mostly use in larger formats, and I never mount them in slide holders. I like E200 as well. YMMV, but these are my favorites. If I was shooting your luthiery work, I would use T64, hands down.

 

[Slixtiesix]

My favourites: Astia 100F (great latitude), Velvia 100 (great colours but has to be exposed correctly), Provia 400X (fast, easy to push, very natural colours, great latitude).

 

[2F/2F]

I made an assumption that slide film produces better photos than color negative film???? Is that a correct assumption?

Absolutely not possible to answer with any meaning – not without you first naming your criteria for "better photos."

I would say that either can be used to produce photos that are excellent enough for anyone. What really makes "better photos" is "better photographers." I would pick one based on your printing medium (i.e. what you want your final outcome to be, and how you want to get to that outcome).

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Fuji T64, and Kodak EPN and EPP, while you can still get them in usable condition. After that, E100G and E100VS new. For something faster, Provia 400X is the bee's knees. That is my go to film for 35mm slides. The others I mostly use in larger formats, and I never mount them in slide holders. I like E200 as well. YMMV, but these are my favorites. If I was shooting your luthiery work, I would use T64, hands down.

Fuji T64... I thought that was discontinued in the 35mm format?? I have three rolls here and haven't seen it in 35mm since May-June this year; plenty in 120 format though.

 

[keithwms]

astia

 

[2F/2F]

Fuji T64... I thought that was discontinued in the 35mm format?? I have three rolls here and haven't seen it in 35mm since May-June this year; plenty in 120 format though.

I am unclear about its discontinuation. I thought it was discontinued entirely, which is why I included it with the group followed by my "get 'em while they're still fresh" condition. I think anything still available is old stock. If it is still available in larger formats, then heavens be praised (and the OP has an RB to load with it, I believe...though they would need to be mounted to be "slides").

 

[2F/2F]

Projecting them is good though it cuts down their life, E6 chromes can only last about 2 hours total in front of a high power bulb at full output before fading.

Which is why if you are meticulous about preserving your work, you keep the originals in the dark and project dupes. Not what most people do, but it definitely is done. I worked for a museum exhibit preparation company for a while, which is where I learned this. I got to work on a project in which a large collection of Ernst Hass's originals were duped. We would only project light through the originals for special-order Ilfochromes or for duping. We'd do all our sorting and editing using the dupes. The same is (or was) done with motion picture work, of course. Working copies are made ("work prints"), then the original film stays in the dark.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

My rolls of 35mm Fuji T64 are all expired stock. They're in the deep freeze. 120 size T64 is still fresh-from-the-fridge and widely available in dealers, but 35mm has disappeared.

 

[hpulley]

I have a bellows and slide duplicator but duplicating film isn't easy to get nowadays. Duplicating with regular slide film adds too much contrast in my experience.

 

[mhcfires]

I am unclear about its discontinuation. I thought it was discontinued entirely, which is why I included it with the group followed by my "get 'em while they're still fresh" condition. I think anything still available is old stock. If it is still available in larger formats, then heavens be praised (and the OP has an RB to load with it, I believe...though they would need to be mounted to be "slides").

T64 is still available from Japan Exposures in a ten pack for $157.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

"Kodachrome - there is no substitute."

Ken

 

[lxdude]

Recentily Velva 50 and 100. Favorite color, clear!

Jeff

A few stops extra exposure and you'll always get your favorite color!