Hi Charles,
>===== Original Message From "Charles Monroe" <chasmnro@xxxxxxxxxxx> =====
> I'm kind of backing into slides once again
>after a hiatus of a little over thirty years. I
>started with a Argus C-3 in the early 1940's,
>moved on to Leica (subsequently stolen),
>Rollieflex (crushed in a move), Maymia TLR,
>Nikormat (the underwater one) and in 1973 my OM-1.
>Stopped shooting slides about 1969 and color
>negative ever since.
Welcome back to the Dark Side. :)
> Question:
> 1. The only slide film available locally
>is Elite chrome 200. My usual shooting now is
>family scenes, outdoor on the water, and
>occasional travel. It will not get much more
>exotic than that.
> a. What are some recommended film(s)?
> b. I'll need a mail order source
>preferably here on the US East coast. Suggestions?
Nothing wrong with Elite 200 if you need the speed. Elite in general does
nicely with skin tones. Try to get some 100 as your all-around film though.
Order from bhphotovideo.com.
> 2. I have been using a mail order photo
>processor for years and would like to keep doing
>so.
>
> a. Any recommendations for a mail
>order slide film processor?
You can get mailers when you buy the film from B&H to send to either Fuji or
Kodak.
> 3. My current mail order processing lab
>will make floppies or CD's at same time as the
>color negative processing but does not offer this
>service with slide film.
>
> a. Does any lab offer this service?
> b. If not, and I really don't want to
>invest in a dedicated slide copier unless I
>really, really have to, is there some lab that I
>can send my slides to for scanning on a CD?
Pick the slides you like and have your local Kodak dropoff station send them
to Kodak to be put on PhotoCD. The more you send (up to about 150), the
better the rate per scan. The cost was between $1.25 and $1.50 per scan when I
did this last (5 years ago?). Dunno how much that's changed. You can get a
lot of scans for the price of a scanner and appropriate software at that rate.
The thing about the scanner/software however is not the cost but the learning
curve.
> c. If that is prohibitively expensive
>is there any flatbed scanners that I can use to
>scan slides and still do the usual flatbed scanner
>tasks?
You can buy a trannie adapter for the Epson Perfection series scanners. Don't
expect dedicated film scanner quality however. And did I mention the learning
curve thing? <g>
Hope this helps,
Joel W.
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