Slide and Instant Film, With a Prompt Each

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Slide and instant film

The positive stocks, their narrow latitude, and the wording for each.

Reversal film makes a positive picture on the strip that goes through the camera. There is no negative and no print, so nothing corrects the exposure afterwards. A colour negative stock holds twelve stops or more. A slide stock holds about five. That short latitude is the look: dense blacks, saturated midtones, clipped highlights and no way back. Instant film works the same way, as a positive with no negative, and it adds a white frame you can see. Eight stocks here: five that were made to be projected, and three that come out in the hand.

Reversal film

5

Five stocks that make a positive on the film itself. Five stops of range, dense blacks, clipped highlights and no recovery.

Kodachrome 64: Warm dense midtones, deep red, restrained blue, and shadows that fall to solid black.
Kodachrome 64
Warm dense midtones, deep red, restrained blue, and shadows that fall to solid black.
Velvia 50: The highest saturation of any slide film: hard greens, dense reds, cool shadows and clipped highlights.
Velvia 50
The highest saturation of any slide film: hard greens, dense reds, cool shadows and clipped highlights.
Provia 100F: Accurate colour, moderate contrast and very fine grain: a slide that looks like the scene.
Provia 100F
Accurate colour, moderate contrast and very fine grain: a slide that looks like the scene.
Astia 100F: The soft slide: low contrast, low saturation and the gentlest skin of any reversal film.
Astia 100F
The soft slide: low contrast, low saturation and the gentlest skin of any reversal film.
Ektachrome E100: Clean slide colour that runs slightly cool, with moderate saturation and very fine grain.
Ektachrome E100
Clean slide colour that runs slightly cool, with moderate saturation and very fine grain.

Instant film

3

Three stocks that develop in the hand and arrive inside a white frame. The frame is part of the picture, so the prompt has to ask for it by proportion.

Polaroid SX-70: Soft warm instant colour in a square white frame, low in contrast and gentle in the highlight.
Polaroid SX-70
Soft warm instant colour in a square white frame, low in contrast and gentle in the highlight.
Polaroid 600: Fast instant film with flash: cooler, harder contrast, and a dark background behind a bright subject.
Polaroid 600
Fast instant film with flash: cooler, harder contrast, and a dark background behind a bright subject.
Instax Mini: A card sized instant print: clean saturated colour, a narrow white border and a hard flash.
Instax Mini
A card sized instant print: clean saturated colour, a narrow white border and a hard flash.

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Colour film stocksThe colour stocks, and what each does to skin, to sky and to green.12 colour stocksBlack and white film stocksThe stocks, and what each one does to grain, to skin and to the sky.8 black and white stocksCamera and formatThe ways to size a frame, and the wording that gets each one.8 cameras and formatsDarkroom and processThe changes made to the film itself, and the wording for each one.6 darkroom processesHistorical processesThe processes from before the film roll, and the wording for each.10 historical processesPhotographic genresEach genre written as the lens, the light and the distance that make it.16 photographic genresProduct and commercialThe shots a product needs, and the light, shadow and edge each takes.10 product shots
Cinematic techniquesShooting a video rather than a still? The same reference, for the camera in motion.

Film that makes a positive picture on the strip that goes through the camera. There is no negative. You hold the slide up to the light and see the photograph. It is also called slide film or transparency film.