best film for Photoshop

Hi everyone,
First, a thank you to the group. A relatively inexperienced PS user, I don’t have much to contribute, but am learning a lot.

As a stock photographer shooting 50-100asa slide film, I am looking to produce acceptable 50mb digital images for my agencies rather than submitting slides. Currently I am scanning with a 5400 Minolta. PSCS editing involves a simple workflow of, at the most, straighten, crop, Shadow/Highlight, curves, touch up, dash of USM to compensate for Digital ICE, downsize, keyword, done. Five to ten minutes per image is as much time as I want to invest.
My question is, as my goal now is a clean digital image, are there are any advantages to shooting print film? Print film negs being cheaper, quicker, and easier to develop than mounted slides.

The main scanning problem seem to relate to film flatness, individual slides sit tighter than a strip of negatives. But how about Photoshop? Are there any major differences between slide and print film in terms of, for example, contrast and color management control within Photoshop? If so, are any print films particularly recommended for scanning/Photoshop?
Thank you,
Paul.

Paul Skelcher wrote:

Hi everyone,
First, a thank you to the group. A relatively inexperienced PS user, I don’t have much to contribute, but am learning a lot.

As a stock photographer shooting 50-100asa slide film, I am looking to produce acceptable 50mb digital images for my agencies rather than submitting slides. Currently I am scanning with a 5400 Minolta. PSCS editing involves a simple workflow of, at the most, straighten, crop, Shadow/Highlight, curves, touch up, dash of USM to compensate for Digital ICE, downsize, keyword, done. Five to ten minutes per image is as much time as I want to invest.
My question is, as my goal now is a clean digital image, are there are any advantages to shooting print film? Print film negs being cheaper, quicker, and easier to develop than mounted slides.

In general, if you care about colour, I would definitely stick with transparencies. The overriding advantage is, they are already true and correct colour,

and don’t need any tricky inversion (you will be lucky
to find inversions that are so perfect, although printing and then scanning will restore some predictability). Also I find print film noticeably grainier for the same ASA.

But to give the question a proper airing, I suggest doing some back-to-back tests. That should answer all your concerns.

The main scanning problem seem to relate to film flatness, individual slides sit tighter than a strip of negatives. But how about Photoshop? Are there any major differences between slide and print film in terms of, for example, contrast and color management control within Photoshop? If so, are any print films particularly recommended for scanning/Photoshop?
Thank you,
Paul.

Hi everyone,
First, a thank you to the group. A relatively inexperienced PS user, I don’t have much to contribute, but am learning a lot.

As a stock photographer shooting 50-100asa slide film, I am looking to produce acceptable 50mb digital images for my agencies rather than submitting slides. Currently I am scanning with a 5400 Minolta. PSCS editing involves a simple workflow of, at the most, straighten, crop, Shadow/Highlight, curves, touch up, dash of USM to compensate for Digital ICE, downsize, keyword, done. Five to ten minutes per image is as much time as I want to invest.
My question is, as my goal now is a clean digital image, are there are any advantages to shooting print film? Print film negs being cheaper, quicker, and easier to develop than mounted slides.

The main scanning problem seem to relate to film flatness, individual slides sit tighter than a strip of negatives. But how about Photoshop? Are there any major differences between slide and print film in terms of, for example, contrast and color management control within Photoshop? If so, are any print films particularly recommended for scanning/Photoshop?
Thank you,
Paul.