What to do with Slide Film?

ericdan

Member
Joined
Feb 28, 2014
Messages
1,359
Location
Tokyo
Format
35mm RF
Since setting up my color darkroom I seriously started doubting the need to shoot slide film.
Especially with Films like Ektar I get amazingly vivid prints and with lab scanners I can get good digital files from my negatives as well. (I've never gotten anything I like from C-41 film with consumer scanners)

Still nothing beats looking at your slides on a light table. I never project mine, I just look at them on the light table. I scan some of them at home for social media. I dropped a few off at a local pro lab here in Tokyo. I am not sure how they scanned the slides, but the prints were on Fuji Crystal glossy paper and look amazing. I didn't even receive data. Only the prints. They told me the scanned data is not readable. It's just input for the printer.
It really is a hybrid workflow but looking at the results I got back in print, I really don't mind.
So for me shooting slides is a much less involved process. I only shoot, the lab processes the film and if I want prints they do that too.
What do you do with your slides?
 

RPC

Member
Joined
Sep 7, 2006
Messages
1,630
Format
Multi Format
Labs do some color color correction and enhancement to make prints look good, or sometimes bad. Sounds like you have a good lab. Have you asked them what they do?
 
OP
OP

ericdan

Member
Joined
Feb 28, 2014
Messages
1,359
Location
Tokyo
Format
35mm RF
no, but I should. the film sleeve had a bunch of post it notes stuck with instructions in Japanese. I guess they did make some corrections, but it really looked very close to the slide on the light table.
 
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more…