It's got to be about 17 years since I last shot colour slides for projection. I used to shoot a lot and do my own E3/4 then E6 processing, often 20+ rolls a month.
I still shoot colour transparency occasionally but only 6x9 or 5x4, although I may begin shooting 6x17. When I had to give some very formal illustrated lectures I did shoot and project B&W slides around 3 years ago and would do the same again.
Yes, I do both. I find it much easier to drop slides in a tray and look at them on the big screen than to scan them and look at them on a much smaller, non colour corrected screen.
Maybe I'm spoiled because I picked up a Leica projector quite cheaply? There is a huge difference between looking at slides on a Kodak carousel and a Leica, I couldn't believe it when I got the Leica.
Yes, a good lens makes a big difference on a projector. When one spends good money on an expensive camera lens, why project with a cheap projector lens? I put a Schneider Vario-Prolux MC 70-120 f/2.8 on my Kodak and the difference is quite noticeable over the stock Kodak lens that came with the projector. May not match up to a Leica, though.
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.
Yes to both - all my colour stuff is slide without exception. The only reason I don't mount all my 35mm shots these days is the hassle of storage, so I check with the loupe and only project the stuff I want a good look at these days.
I would kill to be able to project my medium and large format stuff...
Shoot, yes, rarely project, but I always look at them in a viewer, does that count?
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Rickety Speed Graphic with some old projection lens/Wiggly 2D with a stripped gear/ 1955 Exakta with pin holes in the shutter/ Holga/ Really nice Crown G I got from Brad.
Yes, I still shoot and project 35mm slides - on a Leica projector. Most of my color work is with slides. I also shoot 6x6 slides but don't have a way to project those yet; 4x5 transparencies are (and 8x10 transparencies will be) only for the lightbox.
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