Poll: do you still shoot AND PROJECT slides?

very interesting - I am the 25th to post and the 1st to be using both. I 've had a Ricoh

GRD for 18 months too, but it's M6, 35mm summicron & Velvia 100, for me. I use loupe

and lightbox and triage - one pile garbage, one pile of maybes and one pile keepers.

When I've maybe 4 trays (200 slides) I project using a Abrams tank of an early eighties

Leitz projector (Pradovit 2002 I think).

 

You either like the whole slides thing or you don't. It's not a private pleasure - the

lightbox of course is. My 23 year old daughter bullies me to get the slides out; my son

makes himself scarce. In the last two years my eyesight has declined to a point where I

can't stand there projecting and get the projected image in focus - I need a remote

controller with a very long wire (like we need very long arms for reading when we get

short sighted!). I feel robbed of an old pleasure. Projected slides are actually not

uniformly 'the best' way of looking at photos, but there has been a few - good pictures

viewed any way - but up there on the wall, they just take your breath away.

Yes, Kodachrome via Hanimex 500 watt projector, 200mm f2.8 lens

amd large Dailight screen.

 

/Clay

Yes. I project them and scan them, too.<div></div>

Sure. Every time I get hold of another camera body I shoot a roll of slide film to check it plus I shoot a few rolls a year for the pleasure of it and viewing them. If i am using an older body, slide film for colour and projecting them is the way to go (for me). For MF stuff I found a really old projector at the local tip for 10 quid and it works a treat. Also part of me wants to keep using it to keep it alive.

If I can find a MF projector for even 10X the price Jim paid, back to slide projection I

will happily go. But have you seen the going prices for 6x6 Leica-Linhoff or

Hasselblad projectors these days, even Kindermanns? One would think the digital

"revolution" has not begun.

 

But it sounds really healthy for the film business.

I use a Kodak Stack Loader to edit occasionally, and when I teach classes. This year I expect to scan and digitally project.

 

That's pretty much all I shoot, E-6.

Yes, I shhot slides and project them. And I am not an "old timer" - got into photography around 2003, and fell in love with slides. Seeing my slides projected took my breath away. It is still awe inspiring. Digital cant touch this.

No, I don't.

 

In a real poll, that is, one in which the respondents are not self-selected it might have been

interesting to ask the respondent's age, as there is likely to be a high coincidence of slide

projection and age.

 

--Mitch/Bngkok

Slides are my favorites, and if I found a place that could develop them for me and give me a scanned disc for $20 a roll, that is all I would shoot. I would have a compact positive analog and a digital image: perfect. I have not found such a resource.

 

The result is that I shoot only about 4 to 6 Kodachrome rolls a year these days, but in order to enjoy this magnificent medium, I built a slide out tray into my book case in my study to hold a modest P150, and I made a sliding screen panel so that I can project every role of slides I shoot before I pass final judgment for each slide on the light table. Viewing a roll of Kodachrome in this way after waiting 2 weeks for development remains one of my most gratifying photographic experiences.

My Leicas and Linhof shoot Kodachrome and Ektachrome, all scanned. Sadly, I have not projected slides in twenty years.

Yes: 'Chromes 95% (Astia, Provia, Velvia). Print film 5%. P2002 projector, 90mm Super Colorplan, matte screen. Most slides end up in the trash. Remainder are mounted either in plastic or glass.

 

Projection of 24mm 2.8 ASPH and 50mm Summilux ASPH 'chromes is an experience.

 

Use a color-corrected light table and a 6x Schneider loupe for culling.

There's nothing to beat projected slides, far better than digislides IMO. Love seeing slides

of our trips on the big screen. Even just bought a new Leica Pradovit 600 IR projector with

Super Colorplan lens, which I can highly recommend. Favorite films are Astia, E100G, and

I've also shot heaps of Agfa RSX. I have slides scanned to CD, so get the best of both

worlds.

I agree with Arthur. I have been looking for a good MF projector but costs are prohibitive (projector+lens, processing, glass frames... ). My neighbour`s 6x6 projected slides (Rollei equipment) are really astounding.

 

OTOH, the new 2Mp TV screens will attract a few more slide adepts, thought.

I have not shot any film at all since about 3 years. I "project" my digital files on 50" plasma TV. I have bought a Nikon film scanner some time ago and when time is permitting me I am slowly adapting my many slides into DVD. Have not opened my screen and slide projector in about 10 years, it was so much bother even before there was digital.

I still shot and project slides. Use Velvia film

I use a flat screen plasma TV with a card reader for slide shows these days. I have also been messing around with a digital frame. Both are fun, I have not used my slide projector in ages, but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for kodachrome. :-)

I belong to two camera clubs. One projects digital images for competition, and the other still projects slides. While the digital images are excellent, they are not quite as good as a well exposed Velvia slide. At home I have a permanent Pradolux setup. While I usually examine the slides on my light table with a 6x loupe, I often pop them into the Kodak Stack Loader for a "quick-and-dirty" evaluation. Since my cameras' viewfinders are 100%, I occasionally find that I have lost important portions of my images from the comercial slide mounting. I then remount in GEPE full-frame mounts for projection. There is usually a noticeable visual improvement with this slight increase in image size.

Like Alex, my camera club still has regular slide competitions, both slide and digital. It is quite evident that there is a world of difference in the quality of image projected. Film projection wins hands down.

 

What appears to be in vogue now is to have digitised images uploaded to a lab who reproduce onto slide film (producing good results), at 2 pounds a slide. Projected slide remains supreme, however made, for the best quality image.

 

Although you might want to factor in the convenience factor for home use, digitally projected/displayed images are poor, and have none of the magic of a large projected image, when compared to a half decent film projector

 

Long live slide film (and projection)

 

Regards

John

Sure. 35mm in Kodak projectors and medium format in an old Rollie projector. The medium format is glorious and the 35mm ain't bad. I've still got some Instamatic slides I took in 1964. The majority of the film I shoot is color slide film.

 

That said, high resolution digital on an HD TV looks pretty darn good as well.

90% of my photography is slides. Both Leica M and Contax 645

35mm goes through my Pradovit Colour 250 and the MF stuff via a Rollei.

 

If you haven't had your projector out in 10 years, you don't know what you're missing! It's like "being there" again.

Yes. Kids love it.

I shoot only film, colour negatives, BW and many slides, that i project with my Reflecta and Leica Super Colorplan 90/2.5.

Ciao.

Yes I do. I have six different Leitz/Leica projectors, the oldest of them dates to 1937 and works perfectly.

Yes, but my projector has broken. Not many new ones out there now, so

I will probably buy a used one. I like to shoot Kodachrome 64 and

some Velvia. Mostly with an M6 and a M Hexanon 50.

I'm having a final fling with Kodachrome (64) but I scan/print and don't project. I'm also trying out some of the various Fuji slide films too.