Creating 35mm slides

[NeilPrintArt]

I have been approached by an artist who is creating an instillation at an art gallery. Part of the instillation/artwork is the projection of 35mm slides. But the images to be used are digital files. So I am being asked to take digital files and print them to some kind of transparency/film, which will then get placed inside slide holders and projected onto a screen.

Is this possible? Anyone have any experience doing something like this?

I work with large format Epson's (P9000 and P10000). I have various 'transparency' media including Pictorico Transparency Film and "plate making film" for screen separations

Any feedback welcome, thanks   

[Chris_Brown]

You'd need a "film recorder".

http://www.imapro.com/filmrecorders.htm

I'm curious. Why doesn't the artist want to project the digital images using a digital projector?

[digitaldog]

I'm curious. Why doesn't the artist want to project the digital images using a digital projector?

He should! The quality will be vastly superior, even if one found a really good 4K film recorder.
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” -Warren Buffett

[Kyle D Jackson]

Wow that's wild, first I've heard someone going from digital to slide film instead of the other way   I'm guessing they like the "shick-shick" sound and novelty of flicking the slide projector, but don't actually have any images on slide film to show?

Sounds like one of those "The medium is the message" types I've heard about, lol 

[Lessbones]

what you really want is an LVT if real slide projection is a must--  it's like a drum scanner in reverse, it exposes an image onto a spinning drum with medium-format film stock.  The highest resolution is 2032dpi, much, much finer than any standard film recorder (which often times use tiny CRTs to expose the image onto film) I've got one and used it extensively for a specific project, but I'm not running the chemistry anymore.  Get in touch with Ian at https://www.prepressexpress.com/ he's a mad genius with these machines.

[NeilPrintArt]

Thanks for the feedback!

As to why the artist/gallery are insisting on using analogue slides as opposed to digital, I have no idea. "Ours is not to ask why..."

Doing it properly (ie with a film recorder) is unfortunately not an option because of my location (does not exist in the country) and budget.

We are going to experiment with printing onto transparency and fitting to 35mm slide film holders and seeing what we get in terms of resolution/dot patterns,

Thanks
 
 

[Kyle D Jackson]

We are going to experiment with printing onto transparency and fitting to 35mm slide film holders and seeing what we get in terms of resolution/dot patterns,

I suspect it's going to look incredibly bad in every way..., but hey maybe that's exactly the look the visionary wants lol! Good luck! And I'm curious to see the results, for the science! 

[digitaldog]

We are going to experiment with printing onto transparency and fitting to 35mm slide film holders and seeing what we get in terms of resolution/dot patterns,

Yeah, that will look just awful.
PRINT the digital image on a good inkjet photo printer.
Photograph the print on a copy stand with a 35mm camera and transparency film.
But worth stating again, because this entire 'workflow' if I can be so kind: “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” -Warren Buffett
Adiós

[Richard.Wills]

Print on paper, and shoot on Ektachrome>E6.

There is something to be said for the physicality of a carousel (or set of) projector on its clunk repeat path.

[Kyle D Jackson]

Ektachrome>E6.

I remember the chem bath smell like it was yesterday  ♥