Slide Film is Simply Incredible

The girls will always drag us off into something we could never have imagined ourselves, or thought could be so good !

I don't think I've ever seen any of your videos before but this was excellent! Your compositions of the flowers are amazing and the final results look incredible (I was at the festival a couple weeks after you but really struggled with the flowers and ended up just taking pictures of the people there instead).

Slide film is my favorite film, its always fun looking at slides, I shoot a ton of slide film still. I scanned some 50 year old slides for my grandfather that he took on kodachrome and ektachrome that survived and werent at all damaged from age and have slide photos of my mom as a kid because of it and photos of a trip my grandfather told me about all my life because its one of those stories of being on a cruise where the ship caught fire, hit the side of the panama canal tore a hole in it and then a bunch of people got sick and then people got off at one of the ports and got robbed and then the cruise line declared bankruptcy in the middle of all of it.

"Tulpen", windmills... I thought for a sec you were in my country haha. And man, these colors!

The close-up dioptres are NOT filters. Zeiss produced these, with the proprietary name 'Proxar'. They were made in three focal lengths for Zeiss lenses on Contax, Rolleiflex, and Hasselblad. I've been using mine for nearly 40 years, on Hasselblad lenses. 👌

Brae is in his Civil War Reenactor phase.

Dammn thats some banger flower shots!

Yessss! I also busted out some medium format Velvia for the tulip festival around the same time. Velvia on a light table is the dragon I’ll chase as long as I can. I’m even hoarding some 4x5 sheets of the 100–I can’t freaking wait to use it.

I love this video and the sentiment behind it. Slide film is magic and everyone should try it.

Looks unreal!

You got some amazing shots there man! Thanks for reminding me about slide film, next roll in my Bronica will definitely be a Velvia 50! Also, I had the privilege to shoot some Provia on 4x5 and man, you're absolutely right, seeing these sheets of slide film on a light table is something else.

I love slide film. What I wouldn’t give to shoot Kodachrome 64 in Medium Format. It’s all I shot back in my college days and I absolutely loved it.

I tell all my friends the exact same thing. Slide film is they key I use to turn my friends on to film once and for all from digital. It is truely magic.

My hat's off to you--incredible shots!

If only we had ektachrome paper for it. Love the colors though.

Incredible colors & that close up filter looks epic, well done. Now I’m diggin through the fridge looking for that last roll of velvia.

🤩 OHHH MY GOODNESS! Your images are sooo incredible!!! Just wow! The VELVIA is so rich and … velvety ;-) Gorgeous colours, great compositions, wonderful photographs! Just breathtaking. Honestly. I’ve been to the tulip festivals here in Canada but my digital photos don’t even come close to what your slide film photos look like. Certainly nothing can compare to the image rendered on a physical medium such a colour positive film.

beautiful man. That photo at 10:10 is so damn good. You the man Brae.

I owe a lot of my journey to slide film, even if nowadays I am barely shooting it... Born in the mid 90s, Dad's Agfachromes had something and when getting into film I got my chance in 2009. Sensia and Kodachrome, of which I got a handful only rolls and made an own Kodachrome project* out of it. The last generation that learned on that film. When I moved to Medium format, decided on a Fuji 6x9 for the sheer film size and targeting to use it. For a while I did Provia+Portra, managed to shoot a single Provia 400X in college... But around 2018 switched to mostly C41 and BW film. Still the freezer is stocked up with Provia 120 and I managed to find a couple propacks in winter (exp 5/2025). That is coming to a tropical trip later this year 🏝️ Provia, Velvia 50 and 100 are supposedly still manufactured but sadly any Fuji film is all but none in the market. Velvia 100 was just banned in the US and curiously I have not tried it, I did Provia 400X a decade ago as a test roll. And spring hit hard here, have 3 120 rolls that will be developed together with other photo club members. Slide film is beautiful and just needs to be exposed well (no overexposed color negative vibes), it still has a different color rendition that separates it from Digital... The reds specially ❤ *Dan Bayer is a photographer that did a whole years long project on Kodachrome but unfortunately the Kodachrome project book was never published.

Switched to Velvia in the late 80s when Kodak began to ramp down processing labs globally and getting a roll of K64 processed was taking close to a week. I was primarily shooting 35mm (Canon F1 and T-90s), though I did flirt with the Mamiya 645 for a few months. However as I was a wire service shooter at the time, MF was a luxury that I was simply not using enough to justify keeping it. Indeed getting these stunning gems back from the lab and laying them on the light table was nothing short of a magical experience. Like K64 (which I loved), Velvia’s demise from the US market was a shock. To date, I grab one of my trusty, banged-up F1s a few times a month and throw in a roll of Provia, when shooting film stock, I prefer slides, keeps me sharp and forces me slow down and concentrate. For my daily “paid’ work, it is all digital, but I have kept my love for Fuji alive by switching from Canon after 40 years to Fuji. While I shoot strictly RAW, my post-work is Velvia (when appropriate, Landscapes, Seascapes, etc...) , followed by Classic Chrome and Provia. I played with LF in the Navy and College, did not care too much for it, though I might be willing to give it another try for grins-n-giggles.