Yes. Slides just weren't for slide shows.
Several reasons I prefer slide film over negatives:
1. Greater saturation
2. First generation image
3. Virtually eliminates the photofinisher mis/interpreting contrast, color,
etc. It essentially showed me what I shot, not a rendition.
4. Transparency film *generally* has better grain characteristics/resolving
power than negatives.
5. Looking at an image that is transmitted light feels like being there,
compared to viewing a relected image on paper.
6. Wonderful experience holding up the little jewels.
7. Before digital, most magazines and nature photographers preferred
transparency film, for some of the same reasons.
8. Pushability.
Tom C.
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? Is
this why one would shoot slide?
I don't, so I am only asking.
Kostas
