A short and handy guide to Slide Film – what it is, how it gets developed and, most interestingly, what Cross Processing is all about.
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
Every pic I used to take was on slide film: many years ago I worked in a computer graphics slide production bureau – before the advent of PowerPoint – so all the film and processing was (ahem) free. We used to work long hours, on average 60-70 a week, and we’d do anything to get home a few mins earlier. One strategy was to reprogramme the Jobo processor down from 45 minutes to just over 30! Colour was hardly affected, not enough for business customers to notice anyway! ;) What was my point? Oh yes, slide film – gorgeous colour, deep contrast and low noise, the best 35mm option. Even now, it’s a great avenue to explore: get a cheap SLR with lenses for around £35 off eBay, load up with 35mm film, and blag some decent scans from someonw who knows about cleanliness…the end result will rival and surpass many low-end digital SLRs.
He’s right. Arguably it’s a whole lot better than many high-end dSLRs. Depending on your lens, of course.
And on a couple of points ‘Trapac’ makes:
- most slide labs don’t glue on their mounts. DLab7 from 7dayshop.com doesn’t, and they’re very cheap.
… actually, I’ll stop there, this is a blog post of its own, isn’t it? Biab. :)
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