Why do you shoot colour reversal film?

[Jan-Peter]

Thanks, Chris of Irland;

for this thread! - As also other mentioned it I remember my Pa showing colour slides every single Christmas in the very early sixties of what I have approx. 400 left in fairly good condition. - The best ones are on Agfa UT 16.

After nearly 40 years I have approx. 7,000 6x6 and 45x60 colour slides which I took with my Hasselblad - and honestly projecting them on a 6x6ft. screen is phantastic any time: Very deed blacks and deep colours; finest contrasts, finest details!

My wife takes pictures o a Sony Alpha VII - however colour projection is not comparable though we use a semi professional digital projector.

By the way - in the eighties I spent eight long holidays in Ireland or Eire as it is called, too - and I took hundreds of 35mm colour slides on Ektachrome Professional 64 - and they are just as beautiful as the blooming heather in the Mourne Mountais - missing the wonderful smell though. - Smile!

Jan-Peter

 

[ChrisGalway]

Thanks, Chris of Irland;

for this thread! - As also other mentioned it I remember my Pa showing colour slides every single Christmas in the very early sixties of what I have approx. 400 left in fairly good condition. - The best ones are on Agfa UT 16.

After nearly 40 years I have approx. 7,000 6x6 and 45x60 colour slides which I took with my Hasselblad - and honestly projecting them on a 6x6ft. screen is phantastic any time: Very deed blacks and deep colours; finest contrasts, finest details!

My wife takes pictures o a Sony Alpha VII - however colour projection is not comparable though we use a semi professional digital projector.

By the way - in the eighties I spent eight long holidays in Ireland or Eire as it is called, too - and I took hundreds of 35mm colour slides on Ektachrome Professional 64 - and they are just as beautiful as the blooming heather in the Mourne Mountais - missing the wonderful smell though. - Smile!

Jan-Peter

Those medium format slides must be quite something!

Ireland is still here, still beautiful, and just as wet as it always was ... although I confess we are having a spell of good weather at present. I see from another thread that you are going to Scotland next year, remember to take your long underwear and waterproof coat ... and that Velvia film!

 

[Jan-Peter]

Yes, Chris;

I fully agree! - Though nowadays its a lot more difficult to stay somewhere overnight for a reasonable fee. Those days I always stayed in them phantastic An Oige Youth Hostels. Now many, many are closed and lie in riuns, such as Tre An Lour Lodge, north of Newport; Mountshannon has been sold long ago, John Harvey is a sindaco in close by Castletown, Lough Dergh, Ballinclea probably does not exist any more - or that fairy tale like Mountain Lodge where there was only gas and no electricity.

These days are gone forever - and I wonder where to stay.

In those days I took a series of them oulde High Crosses on Kodak Panatomic 35-mm-film - and enlarging them on Agfa Record Rapid RRS or RRN in kodak Selectol developer - best enlargement I ever made. - Though Ilfords MG warmtone baryta is also excellent.

Thinking back with deep pleasure - alos looking onto GAlway Bay from thm Burren stoney fields right across to the Arran Islands!

Jan-Peter

 

[miha]

Just fdeveloped two rolls of Kodak 100D in Adox C-Tech E6. The proof’s in the pudding, currently hanging to dry, and already looking like magic.