 usually for vacations
I like shooting slides on vacations - because they have such great colour saturation, and then there is the issue of gathering a crowd to view them and everyone on the trip has the chance to add their commentary at the time while a slide is being projected. I alos do it because I have a great archive of slides from my grandfather and father, and would like to have a compatible archive continued for my kids.
My grandfather and dad shot a lot of Kodachome, but, alas, while I love the look, the hassle of sending it out for processing when I do everything else in house is the issue for me. I have done slides from kits, and also from home brew as recently as two years ago. Last summer we went canoe camping in the interior of Algonquin Park, and since my kids, then 7 and 4 are not really big enough to portage or paddle with any great efficiency, bit gear decisions had to be made. In the end it came down to a canon sureshot P&S loaded with c-41 and an Olympus XA loaded with conventional B&W film.
I hope to get back to e-6 in my slr this summer - there are at least 50 rolls iin my frezer of various films waiting for their moment to be exposed.
In medium format I have dabbled in transparencies, and a page of transparencies is nice, but not easy to share, and I am not going to gather all that will be needed to project them.
I was recently given an almost full box of 50 sheets of Astia and a bit of Velvia too in 4x5, so pehaps some nice images will get me mixing up e-6 again this summer. |