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Slide 100

Film · clean, faithful reversal

Slide 100 is the all-round slide film, a reversal stock known for clean, faithful color. It gives your picture deep blacks, crisp contrast and true color, with very fine grain.

Before · AfterThe sample picture with no effectSlide 100 at its default settings

The sample with the Drum Scan preset. Drag to compare, or press Play with it to tune it live. Open as a shared look

What it's like

This is the slide on a magazine's light table, or in the carousel at a family slideshow. Color is accurate but rich, shadows go deep, and the picture looks sharp and clear. Get the exposure wrong and it shows, which is part of the charm.

When to reach for it

  • Travel, architecture and nature with accurate, rich color.
  • Clean editorial looks with real blacks.
  • A sharp, fine-grained base when you want film without heavy grain.

How it works

Every roll runs through one film model, with its own profile. Exposure and halation happen in linear light, the way light reaches the film. Then the stock's curve rolls off the highlights, sets contrast and color, and the lab, grain and scan finish the print. Slide film has no print stage to rescue it, so an exposure change shows almost one to one and highlights burn out quickly. Slide 100 sits in the middle of the three slides, with more contrast and color than Soft Slide 100, less than Vivid Slide 50, and a faint magenta lean.

Controls

20 controls in 9 sections, in the order Tune shows them.

Stock

  • Hero knobStrength 0 to 100 · rests at 100

    The hero. How much of the stock's color and tone goes onto your picture. Grain and Fade stay on at any setting.

  • FaderExposure −3.0 EV to +3.0 EV · rests at 0 EV

    Over or under, in stops. Slide film forgives almost nothing. Over burns the highlights out, under sinks into dark, grainy shadows.

Lab

  • FaderPush / pull Pull 1.0 to Push +3.0 · rests at Box speed

    Push develops the roll longer. Contrast climbs, blacks crush and the grain gets bigger and heavier. Pull goes the other way, softer, with lifted blacks and lighter grain.

  • SelectLab StandardCrispSoftPrintFlat

    How the lab scans or prints it. Crisp is punchy, with golden skin and cool shadows. Soft is gentle and peachy. Print has deep blacks and pushes foliage toward yellow and reds toward orange. Flat is low contrast, ready to grade.

Format

  • SelectFormat Half frame35mm120Cine 35

    The film size, which sets the grain. A small negative is enlarged more, so Half frame has the biggest grain and 120 the finest. Cine 35 is a touch coarser than 35mm.

  • KnobGate weave 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    The frame drifts and bobs, like film running through a movie camera's gate. It crops in a hair so the edges never show, and it loops cleanly.

Color

  • FaderWarmth -100 to +100 · rests at 0

    Cooler or warmer, on top of the stock's own color.

  • KnobFade 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    Lifts the blacks to a soft, slightly cool gray and dims the whites a touch, like an old print.

Grain

  • KnobGrain 0 to 100 · rests at 14

    How much grain. It gathers in the midtones and shadows, thins out in the highlights, and changes every frame.

  • KnobGrain size 0 to 100 · rests at 18

    How big each grain is. Format and Push / pull scale it too.

Halation

  • KnobHalation 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    The red glow that blooms around bright highlights, where light bounces back through the film. The hottest lights glow orange.

  • KnobSpread 0 to 100 · rests at 40

    How far the glow reaches.

  • KnobThreshold 0 to 100 · rests at 60

    How bright a highlight has to be before it glows. Low, and most of the picture glows. High, and only the hottest lights do. Exposure moves it too.

Light

  • SelectLight source MatchedTungstenFluorescentSodiumMixed

    The light the scene was shot under, as film sees it. Matched is clean. Tungsten goes orange, Fluorescent goes green, Sodium drains the color to street-lamp orange, and Mixed puts green in the shadows under warm highlights.

Darkroom

  • KnobBleach bypass 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    Skips the bleach, so silver stays in the film. Color drains, contrast climbs and the picture turns hard and silvery.

  • KnobExpired 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    Old stock. The blacks fog up, contrast sinks, the picture drifts toward the Drift color and a fine noise flickers over it.

  • SelectDrift MagentaCyanGreen

    Which way the expired film turns. Magenta, Cyan or Green. It shows only with Expired up.

Scan

  • SelectScanner LabFlatbedDrum

    How the film is scanned. Lab is clean, Flatbed is soft and a little lifted, Drum is crisp and sharpened.

  • KnobScan sharpen 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    Scanner sharpening on top of the scan. A little brings up detail, a lot leaves bright edges and crunchy grain.

  • KnobDust 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    White specks of dust on the scan. Past halfway, a hair lands on the frame too. They hold still through the loop.

Presets

7 presets. Each one opens in the studio as a shared look. Add it on top of your picture, or save it to My looks.

01Bleach BypassSilver left in: color drops, contrast climbs.02Found RollExpired years ago: fogged blacks, magenta drift, dust.03Office LightShot under fluorescent tubes: the green cast film sees.04Sodium StreetOrange street lamps: color nearly gone, glow around the lights.05Flatbed ScanHome scanner: soft, a little lifted, a speck or two.06Drum ScanCrisp drum scan with scanner sharpening.07Expired CyanOld stock drifting cyan.