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.

 

[ChrisGalway]

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.

Removing slide film from the reel at the end of processing is one of those wonderful moments!

 

[miha]

Removing slide film from the reel at the end of processing is one of those wonderful moments!

You betcha!

A note for first-timers: don’t be alarmed if the freshly developed slides look milky & low in contrast while they’re still wet, that’s normal. They clear up and shine once they’re dry.