Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina wrote: <<<<I was interested in using Scala for B&W slides, but when I asked Agfa about the possibility of fading with projection or storage they wouldn't give me a straight answer. Does anybody have any experience with this film? I found directions on how to develop it myself, but I'm not interested if the slides are going to fade into oblivion! >>>>> Hi Tina, I don't know about fading into oblivion, (some day maybe) :) but I shot some for this year's seminar and I liked what I saw. My biggest complaint is the cost!!!!!!!!!! It's around $30.00 dollars a roll plus! Purchase to receiving the slides back and that's a bunch to swallow for anyone but a millionaire, which I'm not and most other LUGNUTS aren't. However, the results are quite amazing. Nice rich blacks and whites like almost looking at a real B&W print. It never occurred to me to process my own, as I've gone that route with T-max 100 and Kodak Reversal kits. Nice results, but a big pain in the butt for processing! This year we are copying all the B&W lecture prints on Scala (hey what the hell it's only my money) :) and hopefully, we'll dispense with doing our own lab thing for a change and better results. (God I hope so!) If Scala doesn't produce the results I want, we recopy every B&W print and do the KODAK reversal thing. Damn! Scala is an interesting film, but I think you really have to "think transparency" when you shoot it and not B&W negative. And you must bracket as in colour slide film. Only then, can you achieve the best results. ted