What is the best type of 35 mm film for double exposures?
Multiple exposures can be made with any type of film, but we recommend using black and white or color negative rather than E-6 slide film because it has a wider exposure latitude, meaning it can handle over or under exposure very well. This means there is more room for error and makes metering for multiple exposures much easier.
Black and white film works especially well because the lack of color helps to simplify images. With color film, double exposure photos can often look confusing or too busy because of the amount of color variation in the overlapping images.
While it is possible to make double exposures with E-6 slide film it is much more of a challenge because it has less exposure latitude and so does not perform well when overexposed.
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