1. The very best reason to shoot slides is how great they look projected.
2. The next reason is that you can easily evaluate the first generation
image by just looking at it on a light table with a loupe, it takes a
great deal of skill and knowledge to evaluate negatives that way.
3. In the old days magazines wanted slides because that is what their
photo-mechanical department was set up to handle.
4. You can pretend you are a pro.
Most of the other justifications are just that, justifications.
And, no, slide film is not really intended to be scanned or printed. It
does relatively poorly at both.
Sadly, I expect slide film to soon disappear entirely.
graywolf
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Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Thu, 4 May 2006, William Robb wrote:
For your enjoyment. I'm just the messenger......
Thanks William.
William Robb
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Schneider" Subject: Analog
versus Digital Shootout
http://www.ales.litomisky.com/shootout/analogversusdigitalshootout.htm
Out of curiosity (and having read the parts of the thread that have
landed on my mailbox so far), is slide film designed to be
scanned/printed? Is this why one would shoot slide?
I don't, so I am only asking.
Kostas
