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Back when film and slides were all there were, slides had the sharpest images you can get. Kodak (only film I used) had ISO 25 and 64 slide film and the images came out fantastic. Actually all my "best" shots are on slides. Kodak had a display in Grand Central Station in NYC of a huge poster (maybe 20 feet by 10 feet) of a supposed ISO 25 slide film blown up to that size - they had the slide in the corner of that display.
Back then even ISO 100 film was too grainy to blow up beyond 8x10 or 11x14 and I believe the processing of a slide into a print was also pretty straight forward. I also believe that processing slides was pretty screw up proof vs getting prints. I hated getting prints done from negatives because colors were always wrong. Back when I was a serious amateur I had only 2 places that I would go to have my film developed or have prints made from slides. Most people who process film don't understand photography and just pass them through. Even in digital I have had people process images that were garbage and I wonder how!
A lesser advantage with all slide film is cost when you're shooting a hundred shots to get one good one.
One example: The longevity of Kodachrome is often touted. What they don't tell you is that only works if the slides are kept in the dark. Exposure to bright light, such as when being used in slide projectors and enlargers, Kodachrome colors start fading almost 3 times sooner than E-6 slides. Yeah, K-14 is very archival, as long as you don't use the slide in any way that it was intended to be used.
One example: The longevity of Kodachrome is often touted. What they don't tell you is that only works if the slides are kept in the dark. Exposure to bright light, such as when being used in slide projectors and enlargers, Kodachrome colors start fading almost 3 times sooner than E-6 slides. Yeah, K-14 is very archival, as long as you don't use the slide in any way that it was intended to be used.
That's absolutely incorrect. I have Kodachrome slides that I took in the early sixties and a handful that my brother took in the fifties that I keep in a clothes closet in my home in humid New Jersey. They're still in excellent shape. ALL of my E-6 slides turned to doggy poo within five or so years.
I shot Kodachrome before Fuji came out with its great slide film and then, goodbye Kodak... It was especially good to say goodbye to their labs.
I stopped shooting slides way before Fuji came out with "good" film. I used to send my slides to Rochester (?) for developement. I never had an issue.
My book of slides have been stored in the basement and garage (in the dark) and when I last looked at them which was last year they seemed OK.
Funny thing about digital photography is that it really reminds me of slides ... everything is on the computer and you need to present them to people, kind of like taking out the slide projector and sitting around to view the pictures.
One example: The longevity of Kodachrome is often touted. What they don't tell you is that only works if the slides are kept in the dark. Exposure to bright light, such as when being used in slide projectors and enlargers, Kodachrome colors start fading almost 3 times sooner than E-6 slides. Yeah, K-14 is very archival, as long as you don't use the slide in any way that it was intended to be used.
That's absolutely incorrect. I have Kodachrome slides that I took in the early sixties and a handful that my brother took in the fifties that I keep in a clothes closet in my home in humid New Jersey. They're still in excellent shape. ALL of my E-6 slides turned to doggy poo within five or so years.
So they are kept basically in the dark? My slides are still being sold, some after 15 years, by my stock agency... WTF are you talking about? Doggy poo on you.