[rollei_list] Re: still shooting slides! So do I !
- From: Kirk Thompson <thompsonkirk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Rollei List <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:27:48 -0800
Thank you, Carlos & Jan. I accept Carlos' point that one can see a difference
between prints from slides and negatives. And I also agree that a print from a
slide never matches the experience of the slide itself. So if (and only if)
people continue in the future to gather for slide projections, this would be a
favorable and attractive medium.
I'm personally happy with inkjet prints from color negatives for two reasons:
One is that like Jan, I usually don't photograph brightly colored scenes, and
thus prefer a gentler color palette. The other is a stereotype, in the US at
least – that slide projection is an amateur camera club activity, while
printing is an accepted medium for gallery exhibition and print collecting. As
Carlos pointed out, however, a certain style can be realized best through
scanning slides and printing them. So I do understand why some photographers
are attached to slide film with this as their objective.
Kirk
> From: Jan.Decher@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: still shooting slides! So do I !
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:39:27 -0500
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Kirk,
>
> I agree with most of what Carlos said although I am not as much a
> "vivid color" fan as he is (maybe that's because I grew up in Germany
> where even the fall colors are mostly pastels ;-)).
>
> As for slide shows, I think it's the same with all "performances" you
> have to do a better than average job to gather people into a room and
> "force them" to watch your images. Almost every good camera book in
> the past had suggestions how to do this well (for example Franz
> Pangerl's 1970 "Rollei 35" booklet I got in the mail yesterday).
>
> I am convinced you could still draw a crowd, if someone was offering
> professional slide shows in this country a la Walter Benser - who
> after WWII used two powerful Leitz Pradovit projectors with two huge
> screens and a carefully crafted script to promote the Leica with his
> excellent photos all over the World.
>
> Masters of the medium format slide show are Helfried & Renate Weyer.
> Among others they use Rolleiflex 600x cameras and 6 Hasselblad
> projectors on a panorama screen for projection.
> Their website is here: http://www.helfried-weyer.de/
> willkommen.html (sorry, German only).
> Their current slide show itinerary in Germany is here: http://
> www.helfried-weyer.de/willkommen.html
>
> (I assume many on this list own Helfried's beautiful coffee table
> book "Rollei fototechnic" which promotes the Rollei 6008 system.
>
> The brilliance of well-projected medium format slides is just
> amazing. I doubt that even high end digital projectors like the Leica
> Pradovit 1200 ($13,999 - discontinued!) can match the projected
> analog image.
> Jan
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2011, at 1:09 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:
> > From: Kirk Thompson <thompsonkirk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: still shooting slides! So do I !
> > Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:35:08 -0800
> > I'm curious (and I really mean curious – not wanting to start an
> > argument, but really wanting to know): Why not change to color
> > negative film? The color palette is gentler, exposure is not as
> > problematic, and above all, one needn't confine people to a room
> > with a slide projector, which is difficult now that they're
> > accustomed to the Internet. One can go ahead and make a fine print
> > either way, slide or negative, via digital printing – which is how
> > most prints for gallery exhibitions are made now.
> > What would be the advantages now for slides over negatives, if the
> > outcome is to be a print or a Web post?
> > Kirk
>
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