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