I shoot a lot of slide film but it took me a while to try out Agfa CT Precisa 100, which I now regret, because it’s an excellent, inexpensive slide film that you don’t need to get exactly right in camera. Slight detour here. If you read the posts on the photography forums and even advice on so called expert photography blogs, they will tell you that slide film is much harder to shoot than regular colour negative film. What a load of rubbish this is. I must have shot well over 100 rolls of slide film and the success rate in terms of exposure is no less or more than shooting regular colour negative film.
Don’t know what they’re on about, so if you’re thinking about shooting slide film, whether it’s Agfa CT Precisa 100 or not, for gods sake, whatever you do, don’t listen to the so called “experts” who sit behind their keyboards all day stalking unsuspecting readers in the hopes of offering their unsolicited advice. Slide film is no more difficult to get the exposure right than colour reversal film. Let’s take a look at some samples of Agfa CT Precisa 100.
All of these were shot with the Contax T3 or Olympus OM4-Ti + 50mm Zuiko, both of which are now not in my possession. The Olympus OM4-Ti shutter and film advance lever jammed and had to get that fixed before selling. This is apparently a common problem with the OM4-Ti. It’s a beautiful looking camera but I never used it much and decided to trade it in for a Hasselblad 500 C/M, which is a beast and completely different camera.
I put a few rolls of Agfa CT Precisa 100 through the tiny little Contax T3, which is also a nice looking camera but I feel like I’m taking photographs with a kids toy camera when I use point and shoots. Love the idea of them that you can always have a good camera with you, but don’t really like shooting with them.
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