One last question
Jun 16, 2018 18:49:09 #
Jun 16, 2018 19:21:48 #
Color positive (as well as lots of b&w) - at this time it seems less expensive than slides and more widely available.
Jun 16, 2018 19:21:48 #
Jun 16, 2018 19:23:07 #
rjaywallace wrote:
Color positive (as well as lots of b&w) - at this time it seems less expensive than slides and more widely available.
Isn't slide film a positive?
Jun 16, 2018 19:36:57 #
Positive (slide) film. As Longshadow said, for the saturation. I also think that transparency film scans into digital better than negative film, but that's just personal opinion. I'm looking forward to the return of Ektachrome.
Andy
Andy
Jun 16, 2018 22:39:13 #
I don't do B&W because I am a bad B&W photographer. I used to shoot color negative film because I had a full color darkroom. Since I bought my DSLR I got rid of the darkroom so now when I shoot film I shoot slides.
Jun 17, 2018 00:29:00 #
safeman wrote:
For you are shooting film, color positive or color negative? Why?
Prints (negative film). I dont' shoot slide film because: (1) I do not have a slide projector anymore; (2) Digital and the computer/HDTV have replaced the slide projector; (3) Modern processing labs offer great scanned products; (4) slide film has a narrower exposure latitude than negative film. Slide film is similar to digital imaging in that respect. So I just shoot digital instead.
Jun 17, 2018 04:23:24 #
I use positive film for negatives the saturation is perfect and can make an excellent print.
Jun 17, 2018 04:28:52 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
Leicaflex wrote:
I use positive film for negatives the saturation is perfect and can make an excellent print.
What film, what chemistry?
Jun 17, 2018 05:35:13 #
I generally shoot black and white because the process of developing and printing is less hassle (and much faster). If I DO shoot color, then it's negatives. I can process both color and black and white but I'm lazy so I generally stick with black and white unless there is a good reason not to.
I have a darkroom set up for both but because I use an Analyzer for exposure (Analyzer Pro) I can go in, put the neg in the enlarger, take a reading of the light with the analyzer, and make a print that's dead on and be done; no test prints, no monkeying around with 10 sheets of paper to get a print.
Interestingly enough, it's cheaper to shoot color.
I have a darkroom set up for both but because I use an Analyzer for exposure (Analyzer Pro) I can go in, put the neg in the enlarger, take a reading of the light with the analyzer, and make a print that's dead on and be done; no test prints, no monkeying around with 10 sheets of paper to get a print.
Interestingly enough, it's cheaper to shoot color.
Jun 17, 2018 07:43:28 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
safeman wrote:
For you are shooting film, color positive or color negative? Why?
When I shot film I shot both, depending on the situation. Negative color film was more forgiving on exposure than color slide film. BUT, color slide film gave me a different color rendering than color negative film. If I was going to do a lot of post work in my darkroom I wanted to work with color negative film because I could do more with it than slide film. But that's just me. You may fine the opposite true.
Jun 17, 2018 07:43:31 #
safeman wrote:
For you are shooting film, color positive or color negative? Why?
I only shoot B&W on film. I have never taken the color out of one of my digitals to make it a B&W, because there is a difference between a silver oxide paper print and an ink jet B&W. An ink jet cannot reproduce the silver metalic black, it is flat, no depth.
Jun 17, 2018 08:52:23 #
Slides (positive) only. Best saturation, shows my mistakes better thus helping me learn more/faster, like the challenge of the narrower exposure latitude.
Jun 17, 2018 09:03:34 #
safeman wrote:
For you are shooting film, color positive or color negative? Why?
Neither. B&W negative and mostly digital color.
But I occasionally use color negative, especially for medium format. It has more resolution than small format digital. Medium format has the advantage of a larger "sensor" size. Negative film has more latitude and plenty of highlight capacity.
Saturation has nothing to do with whether you shoot positive or negative film. That is determined by how you process it after you scan it - where you map the colors during post processing.
Jun 17, 2018 09:23:31 #
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