{"id":139,"date":"2006-04-16T23:28:30","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T04:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/16\/why-chrome\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T18:03:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T23:03:57","slug":"why-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/16\/why-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are we still shooting slide film?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Given that I get my color film developed at a lab and scan it myself (and that I never project slides), I&#8217;ve got to wonder why I shoot chromes anymore. The film and processing are both more expensive, and with my workflow, all I get for the money is less dynamic range and no exposure tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>The ~5 stops that most slide film can capture is simply not enough for many non-studio lighting situations. It&#8217;s quite common to be faced with the choice of having to severely blow out a bright area or severely block up shadows. Landscape photographers who shoot with view cameras or SLRs can sometimes get around this with split ND filters, but not everybody can take 20 minutes to set up a shot, not every subject has a brightness boundary that falls in a conveniently straight line, and there are plently of cameras that don&#8217;t let you look through the lens to see what you&#8217;re doing (rangefingers, TLRs, pinholes, toys, etc.), so it&#8217;s not a solution for everybody&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/articles\/why-slides\/\">Continue reading<\/a> on Photon Detector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ~5 stops that most slide film can capture is simply not enough for many non-studio lighting situations. It&#8217;s quite common to be faced with the choice of having to severely blow out a bright area or severely block up shadows. Landscape photographers who shoot with view cameras or SLRs can sometimes get around this with split ND filters, but not everybody can take 20 minutes to set up a shot, not every subject has a brightness boundary that falls in a conveniently straight line, and there are plently of cameras that don&#8217;t let you look through the lens to see what you&#8217;re doing (rangefingers, TLRs, pinholes, toys, etc.), so it&#8217;s not a solution for everybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[346,599,1613,1778],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-ed","tag-chrome","tag-film","tag-slide","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->