35mm film printing?

Hey CB world,

We are in the middle of tech for a show in the middle of Wisconsin and are looking for a projection solution, we have a slide projector and all things in that world including a digital image minus the slide. I am wondering if:

A. anyone has ever printed an image on a sheet of transparency paper, or acetate, or some kind of plastic with a laser or inkjet printer?

B. Has it worked/ worked well?

C. Are there any other cost efficient methods of creating a 35 mm slide?

You should be able to get transparencies designed for laser printers and maybe inkjet print. Elementary school teachers did it all the time to make books overhead compatible. And I'm at college where the dependence on overhead projections is still very high and not every classroom has a digital projector yet.

Are you going to print a tiny version of the image on the slide and then make your own mounting to use it in the slide projector?

The long, DIY answer: I wouldn't expect any transparency from a printer to have enough resolution at the small size of a 35 mm image. I would also be concerned with projector heat melting or fading a plastic transparency. You can get good results with a camera and we know real slide film holds up to projection.

Make a quality print of the digital images onto paper, the larger, the better. Get a 35 mm camera with a macro lens (one that focuses pretty close) and a fresh roll of slide film. I would probably go with Fuji Velvia 50 (or 100) film. That is daylight balanced film, so I would go outside and tape the images to a wall. Put the camera on a tripod and position it to be straight on. Fill the frame completely and make sure there isn't glare or reflections. Do not use a flash and remember to set the film's ISO # on the camera. Shoot each image several times, one with the exposure chosen by the camera, then one and two stops over and under exposure. The reason for multiple shots is slide film tends to be relatively picky about exposure settings. Allow at least a week for film processing because slides are a low volume item.

In the old days (I'm dating myself), this would be done indoors, using tungsten balanced film and a copy stand with lights, but those are unlikely to be found. Tungsten slide film seems to be unobtanium now.

The short answer: There are labs that will make slides from digital files. I haven't used them, so YMMV.

Digital to Slides (Slides from Digital files), 35mm, medium and large format.

FMEng said:

The long, DIY answer: I wouldn't expect any transparency from a printer to have enough resolution at the small size of a 35 mm image. I would also be concerned with projector heat melting or fading a plastic transparency. You can get good results with a camera and we know real slide film holds up to projection.

Make a quality print of the digital images onto paper, the larger, the better. Get a 35 mm camera with a macro lens (one that focuses pretty close) and a fresh roll of slide film. I would probably go with Fuji Velvia 50 (or 100) film. That is daylight balanced film, so I would go outside and tape the images to a wall. Put the camera on a tripod and position it to be straight on. Fill the frame completely and make sure there isn't glare or reflections. Do not use a flash and remember to set the film's ISO # on the camera. Shoot each image several times, one with the exposure chosen by the camera, then one and two stops over and under exposure. The reason for multiple shots is slide film tends to be relatively picky about exposure settings. Allow at least a week for film processing because slides are a low volume item.

In the old days (I'm dating myself), this would be done indoors, using tungsten balanced film and a copy stand with lights, but those are unlikely to be found. Tungsten slide film seems to be unobtanium now.

The short answer: There are labs that will make slides from digital files. I haven't used them, so YMMV.

Digital to Slides (Slides from Digital files), 35mm, medium and large format.

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Thank you! This is our current plan and we have a few labs near by that develop E6 regularly(ish) I was trying to find out if there was a faster turn around time that had a similar quality to the real thing.

Thanks again!!
-Sam

Thanks, We may try this as a sub for tech until we can get a real photo slide with a higher resolution image, We have mountings that can be opened and new film can be placed inside the frame.