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Slide film can record a subject brightness range of about five stops of light; anything darker than this range will end up featureless black, and anything brighter will result in featureless white.
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Slide films are sold in two broad categories: " professional" and "consumer". Consumer film is produced so that it will look its best after a few months of aging at room temperature.
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With E6 ( slide film process) the resulting slides or film strips are usually reasonably clean.
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Slide films only have about three. DSLRs usually have about five stops, perhaps a bit more. Meanwhile, mother nature can produce ten or more stops of dynamic range in the real world. This produces a dilemma.
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If you need to present your artwork to a publisher or show them in a slide show, get a roll of Fuji Velvia or your favorite slide film.
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In 1999 I started using a Nikon Coolpix 950 and my transition to digital was so abrupt that I left 20 rolls of unused slide film in the refrigerator—even though I had prepaid for processing.
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Slide film is extremely sensitive, a difference +/-1 EV off the exact exposure is already over the edge for most situations here. Print film is much more tolerant.
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The slides are cut from developed 35mm slide film. The viewmaster camera uses the upper half of a film roll when it's advanced forward, and the lower half when the upper half is full and the film advance switched to backward.
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Fuji's Velvia colour slide film was used by landscape photographers, but it can be replicated for the digital age u… <><> Replace skies in Photoshop ...
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Gamma Pro is the authorized Vancouver drop off and pick up for Agfa Scala B&W slide film processing but the processing is not done by Gamme Pro. This lab merely sends the film to Toronto for actual processing.
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See also: Slide, Film, Image, Camera, Photograph
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