You shoot a lot of transparencies and get them developed as well. But you would also like to make negatives from them and make prints. Here's a way of achieving that. There used to be two and now there are three basic methods for making prints from transparencies (slides).
Digital
Professional labs have special print machines that can make temporary very high resolution scan of the slides and output the scan to traditional colour negative print material. This is the least expensive method and even allows you to make changes to your image in terms of colour, sharpness, saturation, contrast and more. Welcome to the digital world!
Internegative
The slide is photographed using special colour negative film to create an internegative and that is printed using traditional colour negative materials. Unfortunately, the films typically used for this are intended to be temporary, not permanent, although a pro lab can make a special negative for you. My experience has been this method, if done well, produces colours more like the slide compared to the scanning, but still not completely up to the slide. Often, the internegative is 35mm film.
The additional downside is the print is a copy of the copy of the slide and some image degradation occurs, especially in sharpness since the print becomes a third generation output. There is always risk that the lens focusing is not done very, very carefully when making the internegative and degradation of sharpness can increase considerably. Consumer labs are typically a little sloppy when making internegatives. This can be diminished at considerably higher cost by having a 4x5 internegative made and then having that printed (not possible everywhere, however).
Even if a negative dupe is made that has greater permanence, it won't have the permanence of the original slide. Colour negative material only has about 1/3rd to 1/5th the permanence of transparency, depending on negative and transparency materials. Fuji and Kodak transparency films have the highest archival permanence of any film materials made.
Direct Printing
There are reversal print materials specifically for direct printing of transparencies. We highly recommend this method for display prints. It is the most expensive, but it can yield the most dramatic and highest quality prints. The transparencies are printed to these materials just as printing colour negatives except the print material is processed reversal just as transparency films are.













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This is an issue related to making prints of the slides. Trip slide and select the slides that I like and I have recorded from them. The lab I use charges $ 4.95 to make an 8x10 print. As I am gaining exposure to my work, I've realized that going to be on time (and mensagens costs before a profit) so I made an impression every time someone is interested in purchasing one. What is the best solution to this problem? My goal is to be able to make multiple prints (various sizes) of my slides and have them available for sale to customers. How I can do this in the simplest way?
Is Epson Editors listening ????
If yes - provide more information on what you have stated here.
Who in the New York City area still does r-prints?
I would work with a lab in India even, but to me I envision a closer, collaborative effort between photographer & print maker.
Unfortunately I have r-prints earlier made that are just
incredible and nothing else since can compare.
AR
Which scanners do you posses - we can discuss offline. Please feel free to write to me.
Best regards,
Debanjan
Left 2 me, I go 4 hi resolution scaningy Nikon Scaner
and do edit to my satisfction which I might hav left while shooting.
- regards
- ms hebbar
I, too, would like to know more about the reversal print method and also which labs in Bangalore that do this kind of work.
We will tackle this issue in detail shortly.
Thanks for the article. I mostly shoot slides and resort to option#1 mentioned here.Needless to say am never satisfied with the print.
Request you to share more information on the reversal print method and some pointers to the labs which you know offers this service.
Thanks and regards,
Debanjan