Shooting Slide Film
An attempted justification of the unjustifiable.
The paltry herd is being quickly culled. As far as we know Fujifilm still produces Provia 100F and Velvia 50, although in limited format options. Velvia came in two speeds, 50 and 100 ISO. We just lost Velvia 100 due to tightening environmental standards. Velvia 50 is still out there somewhere, but from personal experience it’s getting harder to find.
In 2018 Kodak resuscitated their old second favorite slide film, Ektachrome. Clearly it’s not the stock most enthusiasts would bring back from the dead if they could bring back just one, but I guess the old saying is correct; slide film beggars can’t be slide film choosers.
If you manage to find color positive/slide films anywhere today, they’re more expensive to purchase, less forgiving to shoot and they cost more to develop. So why does anyone still do it? What type of person craves this level of difficulty and expense in an already battered and bruised post-Covid economy?
Hi, my name is Anthony and I shoot slide film, mostly. I’m about to attempt justifying the unjustifiable. I could get corny about it and simply justify shooting color positive by saying I hate being negative, (get it?), but a bad joke alone is no justification for the added impact on my wallet.
