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Forum: Photographic Technique
11-29-2015, 03:23 PM
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Kodak used to have some duplicating film that was not as contrasty as normal slide films, doubt it is still available
Slower speed film will be finer grain, as mentioned above,
The bigger issue is matching the film type or filtering for your light source.
Depending on what you are using to illuminate the slide you are copying, you need to match your film to it,
If a tungsten light source, you need a tungsten balanced film ( usually a "T" in the name, used to be an Ektachrome 160T, not sure if it's still around)
Otherwise, if using a daylight balanced film with tungsten light, you will need a cooling filter in your set up somewhere, 80A or 80B depending on your light source.
If using a flash or clear sky to illuminate your original slide, you should be all right with daylight balanced film, unless you are doing critical copy work, or trying to correct out shifted colors in the original.
It's going to take some testing and experimenting with your gear and the original slides to get good copies. If you only need to do a few, i would look around for a commercial lab that is set up to do it,
The cost of having them do a few, once, will be less than all the testing and fussing needed to get your set up running.
Alternately you could get a color scanner, or have a lab digitize the originals, then correct out color and other issues from the originals, and have digital files to print from.
As RGlasel asks,
What is it you really want to do?
What is your final output intended to be?
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