On May 5, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
Out of curiosity (and having read the parts of the thread that have landed on my mailbox so far), is slide film designed to be scanned/ printed?
AFAIK the newest films were formulated to scan better than the older ones. I'm going through my archives at the moment and I'm currently doing a mix of E100SW, Velvia and Provia 100F films that were shot about 5 years ago. At the start I was having all sorts of problems, particularly in the highlights. Now that I've improved my technique, I'm finding that they all scan pretty well (I'm still glad that I didn't shoot much Velvia).
Is this why one would shoot slide?
Could be one reason, but to be honest I'd rather shoot digital if I wanted a digital file. Scanning is pretty tedious work. Having said that, I'd rather scan slides than negs as the slide itself makes a good reference.
The reason I originally switched to slides was because the small lab I used closed down. When I could no longer obtain good prints I changed over to slide film so I'd get to see what I actually shot, not what some high-volume machine on auto-exposure thinks I shot.
- Dave
