Can I make good quality slides of paintings (that could be submitted to an art show jury, for example) using a digital camera, and if so, which camera would be the best (in a reasonable price range).

-- Judith Prager (jprager4@aol.com), August 01, 2000

Answers

35mm slides from digital files? If so, you would be better off photographing the paintings with slide film directly. It is less expensive and the quality of the slides would be much better!

-- Jason Kirk (jasonkirkphoto@hotmail.com), August 01, 2000.

I do exactly that kind of work for some artists in my area. From what they tell me, the juries are extremely fussy about the quality and appearance of the slides. I don't know of any consumer digital camera that can begin to approach the quality of a good 35mm slide, nor do I know of any easy way to convert a digital image into a 35mm slide that would maintain the necessary quality.

-- Tony Brent (ajbrent@mich.com), August 01, 2000.

Is there a limitation to the size of transparency you can submit? As soon as the word "slide" is mentioned, most people immediately think 35mm, but the rules may allow transparencies much bigger than this. A 10x8 inch tranny on OHP film may impress the judges more than a 35mm slide that they have to peer at through a loupe on a light box.

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), August 02, 2000.