Slide film, for a change

[Julian Tanase]

Shot two rolls of slide film, an Ektachrome E100 and Elitechrome 100, in my recent trip to Italy. The last I used slide film in my cameras was in the very early 90s. To be honest I wanted to see if the magic of the colour slide film is still there. Not the same feeling like the Kodachrome 25 from back in the day, but I like these. They give some, I don't know, deeper feeling, different from the usual colour negative shots.

Camera used was Nikon F2 Photomic, film Kodak Ektachrome.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Did you do all/any of the processing Julian? To my eyes, the 1st one has a blue cast but the second one looks normal.

 

[Ralph Turner]

Ah, K25.... wonderful stuff. I hate to think, though, what a roll of that would cost today if Kodak were still making/processing it...

 

[Tony Warren]

Interesting Julian. I recently digitised some Fuji for a friend which had more natural colour in the best results but fearsome contrast and less than good light introduces a purplish cast. These have slight casts too but different. I used a lot of K25 and I think it gave much truer colour. As to cost Gary - who knows. Reversal plus processing is getting to be a very expensive item, certainly down here in the Antipodes.

 

[Julian Tanase]

Did you do all/any of the processing Julian? To my eyes, the 1st one has a blue cast but the second one looks normal.

Both rolls were sent to my lab. I also noticed the difference, but I put it on the account of being two different emulsions.

 

[Ralph Turner]

Just out of curiosity, Julian (or anyone else here) do you still project your slides at all?

 

[Peter Roberts]

Those are great, Julian.
Personally I always thought that Kodak slide emulsions always had a blue cast. Back in the day I was a devotee of Agfa CT 18. I loved the staturated colours it was capable of producing and have often thought of doing a 'retrospective' featuring it.

 

[Peter Roberts]

Come to think of it, I used to print them using the Cibachrome process. Does anybody remember that I wonder?
Those were the days!

 

[Tony Warren]

I used Agfa too Peter and printed with Cibachrome. It was easier than C41 but the contrast was hard to handle. Casts are usually slight and unless seen side by side as here would not be really noticed I think.

 

[Julian Tanase]

Just out of curiosity, Julian (or anyone else here) do you still project your slides at all?

Unfortunately, no, Ralph. These negatives were not mounted, and to be honest, they'll never be.

 

[Ralph Turner]

We had a little slide show a few months back, first time in decades. Being so used to brightness of computer monitors, hd tv screens etc, I'd forgotten how relatively dim my little projector is with it's fairly standard 150W halogen lamp. There's still a certain magic to a projected slide, though (for me, anyway).

 

[Julian Tanase]

I know what you're saying, Ralph, and you are correct. Slide shows when I was a kid was something like magic, and I do recall the colours being somewhat ... washed (?) for lack of a better word. Well, perhaps not washed, but more natural.

 

[Ralph Turner]

I know what you're saying, Ralph, and you are correct. Slide shows when I was a kid was something like magic, and I do recall the colours being somewhat ... washed (?) for lack of a better word. Well, perhaps not washed, but more natural.

Especially when you're all sat comfy and engrossed in what's on the screen and someone comes in to the room from elsewhere in the house and floods the room with light, breaking the 'spell' lol.
Seriously, though, the projected image can be very good indeed.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Shot two rolls of slide film, an Ektachrome E100 and Elitechrome 100, in my recent trip to Italy. The last I used slide film in my cameras was in the very early 90s. To be honest I wanted to see if the magic of the colour slide film is still there. Not the same feeling like the Kodachrome 25 from back in the day, but I like these. They give some, I don't know, deeper feeling, different from the usual colour negative shots.

Camera used was Nikon F2 Photomic. The first shot is Ektachrome, the second Elitechrome.

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Wonderful pictures and yes the first one has a bluish cast, but not enough to ruin a good image.

 

[Julian Tanase]

I have amended the post, as one of the photographs, the second one, was marked as shot with F2 on Elitechrome. I noticed the mistake and edited the post.

 

[Pete Askew]

Slide film does have a different ‘look’ doesn’t it. I used to shoot Agfachrome (and the film from Ilford) back in the 80s and early 90s and liked the saturated warm tones too. I switched to Fuji, but was never as fond. We used that and Ektachrome for work and used Cibachrome for prints. It has been a long time since I last used slide film though, but I bet there’s some lurking in one of the fridges! I still have a lot of slides and projectors still and I’ve only scanned a few.

Nice shot by the way!

 

[Julian Tanase]

Well, why don't you then? Shooting some again, I mean. I am certain you'll have a good trip down memory lane, Pete!

 

[Bill Watts]

I started shooting slide film in the late 1960's as it was cheaper to process than print film and prints. Strangely I was never fond of Kodachrome - The couple of rolls my Dad shot were less than impressive, Ektachrome of the day was too blue, I found Fuji Sensia was well saturated and naturally coloured and stuck with that as long as they produced it. Big bonus was the slides were gain free, did the Cibachrome thing, and today I am still a Fujifilm fan. Probably got 20 or 30 rolls of Velvia and Provia in the freezer

 

[Julian Tanase]

How are the Velvia and Provia behaving when you use them now? They've been out for quite a while now.

 

[Bill Watts]

How are the Velvia and Provia behaving when you use them now? They've been out for quite a while now.

I have had them deep frozen for about 10 years. Last roll was exposed at box speed and processed as normal results indistinguishable from original.