November 29, 2007

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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  1. 1 Ken Davidson
    Nov 29th, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    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.

  2. 2 brenda
    Nov 29th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    He’s right. Arguably it’s a whole lot better than many high-end dSLRs. Depending on your lens, of course.

  3. 3 brenda
    Nov 29th, 2007 at 9:37 pm

    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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