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Chris Hodapp	true	2011-06-10 03:45:07+00:00	post	first-attempt-at-slide-film	First attempt at slide film	487	Photoblog

Having acquired a Nikon FE and some lenses quite inexpensively and verifying on some cheap Walgreen film that they did indeed work, I picked up some Fuji Velvia RVP50 from Cord Camera in Kenwood back in April (it was expensive compared to what Amazon would have charged, but I wasn't about to waste a trip to Kenwood over $10ish). I'd heard enough lavish praise lumped onto slide film, particularly Velvia for its fine grain and color, so I figured it was worth a try.

Few places left will process slide film but as luck has it I am really close to Robin Imaging who still processes it (and, it sounds like, might be the only lab left in Cincinnati that does). I had them scan it as well and received a disc of 6 megapixel images which is decent (I'm told you can get much higher resolution than that out of a fine-grained film, but I'm not complaining).

While, somewhat stupidly, I don't have a slide projector yet and so I've only seen the scans and the 35mm slides themselves, I still am very impressed with the results.

[caption id="attachment_495" align="alignnone" width="685" caption="Cincinnati (Over-the-Rhine specifically) near Vine"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_494" align="alignnone" width="685" caption="Vine Street in about the same area"][/caption]

Sadly, my favorite image of the bunch is also the only one where I managed to advance the film wrong:

[caption id="attachment_493" align="alignnone" width="685" caption="E. Liberty & Walnut. I love how well the film brought out the color."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_492" align="alignnone" width="454" caption="Downtown someplace for Taste of Cincinnati"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_491" align="alignnone" width="685" caption="Obligatory country road shot, this one in Indiana near 56 & 156"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_490" align="alignnone" width="685" caption="56 & Thuermer Hollow in Indiana... little boring, but here it is."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_489" align="alignnone" width="685" caption="Cincinnati, near John & Ezzard Charles"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_488" align="alignnone" width="685" caption="Over-the-Rhine & downtown Cincinnati seen from Bellevue Hill Park"][/caption]