Michigan Chrome
Who else loves shooting transparencies?
Just this evening, I picked up 6 rolls of slide film from a recent vacation to Mackinac Island, Michigan. In total, I had two rolls of 120, at 12 exposures each, and 4 rolls of 35mm at 36 exposures each for a total of 168 frames. I also have two more rolls of 35mm which haven't yet come back.
I can't help but realize how wonderful it was to just spread all of those out on the light box. It was great being able to look at two frames side by side and see how they compare, and just spend some quality time with my loupe looking at slides. Plus, the slides just look darn nice.
It sure beat staring at a flickering computer monitor for hours, waiting for each shot to load. With slides, the only delay is the amount of time it takes to spread them out.
The 35mm I shot was some expired-but-good Kodak Elite Chrome 100, and the 120 was Provia 100F.
Who else here still enjoys shooting transparency film? The fun of it is enough to keep me from going digital for a long time.
wow what kevin said times a changing,
whats not to love the sharp crisp quality of trannies
one quality scan and they are digital - with no/lower noise
i know i light box and a good lupen are such a turn on
Now I shot mostly on digi's, sometimes medium and rearly 35mm. In a perfect world I would shot every shot with a nice light 35mm SLR and a fine trannie, a SLR film with a LCD for all the advantages of digi (if the minds a bit foggy and your wondering if F2 at 2 seconds iso 100 might be a bit bright on a sunny day outside). for convienience theres not much cant be made digital nowadays.
I have given this answer a few times before and get hassled?
Here goes: love of trannies for me is getting a tripod, a 35mm or bigger some lunch, going for a drive outback. Then walking for a while till I see it (the eye?) then considering the light in the next hour or so planning a composition, view point, depth etc, measuring the light setting my exposure, then with a cable release making a few exposures. I like em long - change of light to darkisk (iso 100 F22-16 @ 8-30 secs), repraprosity failure is cool!
So love them alot, want to always deal with them not anymore. Hearing how happy your love affair with trannies is, is enough for me.
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