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All this yammering about transparency vs. negative is interesting. I think there is one point that everyone has missed. Why not shoot both? Carry a camera with your favorite transparency film, your favorite negative film and even black and white. In 1989, when Santa Fe debuted the Warbonnet on the FP45s, they had two photo sessions in Cajon Pass. The first one portrayed two FP45s in red and silver with a piggyback train. I shot slides and they were stunning. A month later, when the railroad decided to paint all the FP45s red and silver, they had a second photo shoot, same place, with a stack train instead of the piggybacks, and three warbonnet FP45s. I carried two cameras with color slide film and a third with color negative. I figured there would be a bunch of different requests from friends and railroaders for prints, so I thought having the scene on color negative would make prints easier, faster and cheaper. Since the train was posed in several locations, it was quite easy to swap back and forth between camera bodies. My photos from that second photo shoot have been published in a bunch of different magazines, catalogs and other paying enterprises, all of whom requested color transparencies. In addition, I have used that same material on my photo business cards, which required use of a color negative. And I have probably passed out 2-3 dozen color prints of the 3/4 scene at Sullivan's Curve to railroad friends, utilizing color the color negative and machine-grade prints. Yes, I normally shoot slides. But I have other kinds of film (and cameras for it) in the camera bag. This is an example of how both kinds of film were used on the same shoot...it made things a lot easier to have good originals in both formats. For shoots where I don't have the luxury of spotting the train exactly where I want it, I also have two brackets available to mount two cameras for simultaneous operation. That's one way to shoot the two films at once. --David R. Busse Diamond Bar, Cailf. ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
