What's the difference between slide films and films with 12, 24, and 36 exposures?

Question

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Answer 1

The number of exposures and the type of film are two different things.

Slide film and print film are two different types of film. Both types can

come with 12, 24, or 36 exposures.

Print film has a negative, which used to make prints. Slide film, the "negative" is actually a positive, meaning you can look at it and see the photo. Print film is convenient to showing pictures.

Slide film can give slightly more saturated colors. The color in slides tends to last longer on average than print film negatives (10-20 years versus 20-100 years). The photo in the first two links are print film, one consumer quality and other professional film.

The photos in the third and fourth links are slide film, both professional quality.

Answer 2

With a 12 exposure film you can only take 12 pictures, with a 24 exposure 24 pictures and with a 36 - 36 pictures.

The way this works is that the actual length of the physical film is greater on the 36 exposure to the 12 exposure.

In practice if you're careful loading the film into the camera you can get one or two extra slides per film above the stated number of slides, e.g. 26 out of a 24 expsoure.

As you're using slide film you will get small 35mm slides for loading into a projector rather than prints.