> > 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. >
there are plenty of reasons for shooting slides, unconnected with scanning. However, slide processing - especially Kodachrome - is rapidly fading. I used to shoot Kodachrome, and I've found that it scans quite well, although it's too old to have been designed for it. However, I prefer negative colour film for scanning. Most of the recent ones (from Kodak, I'm not familiar with others) are designed to scan well. Print film is generally better than slide film because it does not have so much contrast or saturation, and is more tolerant of exposure errors. The wide latitude and relatively lower contrast tends to produce a better print, both conventional and digital (although I suppose digital is now the conventional way of doing it) at lower cost. I like digital prints made from scanned colour film, they tend to capture subtleties better. Such things are, of course, a matter of taste. Bob
