Our favorites are Fuji velvia (comes in 50 and 100 speeds, and Kodak E100vs - these all produce fine grain images with vivid color and enlarge with minimal graininess.

Fuji Provia 100 is a better choice for more natural looking skin tones.

You know its slide and not print if it has the word chrome in the name- for example Fujichrome is slide (also called transparency film) whereas Fujicolor refers to print.

Ok you switched to slow speed slide film and now your photos look terrible. What happened?

1. Slide film is not “forgiving” like print. Your exposure has to be dead on. Check the section below on exposure.
2. Slow speed film requires more light per shot- therefore it usually means longer exposure times (slower shutter speeds) so the slightest breeze or camera shake causes blurred images. The solution for this is simple. Use a tripod to eliminate camera shake. If it’s windy out you can open up to a wider aperture in order to reduce your shutter speed or wait for the wind to break.
3. If you want vivid color but don’t plan to enlarge your images to greater than 8x10ish go ahead and use a print film designed to increase saturation ( like Kodak high definition film)- be sure to ask for glossy prints to further increase the color saturation.