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?
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?
