Francis wrote: "For high saturation 35mm slide film (for wildlife stuff) what does anybody recommend? The ones I've been looking at are Fuji Provia, Sensia, or maybe Velvia. Unfortunately, at the only place within 100 miles of where I live (very far from where any one else lives) good slide film costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 per roll, with developing. Up till now I've just been using the cheapest print film I could find, my philosophy being that if I took four rolls with lousy film instead of one roll with good stuff I'd end up with more decent photos. And the with the lenses I have you probably couldn't see the deference anyway. But now that I'm getting some decent glass (K 200/2.5) I thought that I'd better at least look into it."
I've been buying Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Color in bulk and I'm happy with it. It occasionally pops up at $3 per roll but it's usually closer to $4 here in the US. I use the Kodak processing mailers that sell for $4.99 currently in the US. My total cost per roll of 36 slides is under $10. Tom Reese
