B&W slide JOY :)

I was informed by a great member of rangefinderforum that B&W slide is a joy to project and scan. Boy he was right. He gave me suggestion on what to try and where to develop it (thank you Jan).

I tried so far:

Agfa Scala, Rollei Retro 80s and Adox Silvermax.

Scala was developed in France while I was on family vacation by a lab called Akra which do mail order (international too). They are great with good knowledge about what to expect from those B&W slide. They do scala and retro 80s as far as I know. I visited them a lot while in Paris and the owners were kind and did push process with the same rate!

Retro 80s and Silvermax were developed by photostudio 13 in Germany which also do international mail order. They are just as good but they have more films that they can develop as B&W slide. Beside scala, they do the mentioned films plus agfa copex, adox CMS and many more.

The Silvermax for me was better than Retro 80s with better shadow detail. The Retro has a little warmer look which I like. Projected, both look amazing with a lot of details on them. I tried 35mm and 6x4.5.

Here are the photos (first two are with Zeiss Ikon and Zeiss C-Sonnar, Second two are with Hesselblad H1 and Hasselblad HC 120mm F4 Macro)

Enjoy.