Color Reversal Film

[bob_helland]

'Color Reversal Film'

 

Does that mean simply 'slide film'??

 

Can you have it developed into prints?

 

 

I tend to use Fuji Reala, but I see so many nice photos that use Fuji

Velvia.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

-Bob

[craig_bridge]

Slide films are color reversal films. Other than Polaroid like processes, the film you expose isn't developed into prints! Printing is a separate process. If you want prints made, negatives are the least expensive route. The modern way to get prints made from slides is to have them scanned and printed from the scan.

[andy_piper2]

Yeah - "Color Reversal" means "Color positive" or "Color slide" or "color transparency" film. (Although most negatives look transparent to me, as well.)

 

Even though it's negatives that are actually 'reversed' from reality, neg film existed first (ignoring Daguerreotypes) and thus had prior claim to the moniker "film". When direct-positive processes came along, they had to accept the designation 'reversal film' to distinguish them from unreversed reversed regular negative film.

 

=8^O

 

Sort of a double negative negative (pun intended). Ain't language grand?

 

You can have prints made from the slides after the fact - but you can't just run it through the local 1-hour print machine as though it were negative film and get normal results. Colors and contrast will be screwy at best - not the 'Velvia' look that attracts you.