Kodachrome ... Happy 75th Birthday (2010)
Posted by: DIL on 21 February 2007
Posted on: 22 February 2007 by Melnobone
quote:Our America is unique.
Why do yanks claim the whole continents of america?
Mexicans are American as well...and Brazilians etc...
Posted on: 22 February 2007 by Nick_S
Kodachrome (along with Agfa Scala for b/w) is my favorite film, but will it live to be a 100 with no new R&D of the film.
Nick
Nick
Posted on: 22 February 2007 by Rockingdoc
It is already over. I think the loss of Kodachrome is actually a big deal. I have used it exclusively as my transparency film choice since childhood and am genuinely sad to now see it go.
Posted on: 22 February 2007 by Roy T
Ditto, I have files full of Kodachrome slides just a vibrant now as the day they were taken, my father has family shots dating back to the early 1950s and still look very much alive.
Posted on: 22 February 2007 by Phil Sparks
I have a real soft spot for kodachrome, somewhere I've got a few boxes of K64 shot on a 126 format instamatic 35 years ago when I was about 7 - the last time I looked they seemed unchanged from the shots I remember coming back from the processors all those years ago.
A few months ago I ran a roll through my OM4 for old times sake and in a slide viewer they look fantastic - lovely deep but not overblown colours, believeable skin tones,etc. However I've struggled in vain to scan them into my PC. I've got a Canon fs4000 which works realy well with colour negs but the K64 scans are rubbish. The histograms show a mountain of dark colours and a mountain of bright with almost no midtones. No amount of post scanning tweaking will get me a decent scan. I've tried both the Canon software and VueScan (selecting Kodachrome) but I can't make it work well
Anyone eles had this problem and solved it? I'd love to go back to K64 and just scan the good shots.
Phil
A few months ago I ran a roll through my OM4 for old times sake and in a slide viewer they look fantastic - lovely deep but not overblown colours, believeable skin tones,etc. However I've struggled in vain to scan them into my PC. I've got a Canon fs4000 which works realy well with colour negs but the K64 scans are rubbish. The histograms show a mountain of dark colours and a mountain of bright with almost no midtones. No amount of post scanning tweaking will get me a decent scan. I've tried both the Canon software and VueScan (selecting Kodachrome) but I can't make it work well
Anyone eles had this problem and solved it? I'd love to go back to K64 and just scan the good shots.
Phil
Posted on: 23 February 2007 by Rico
I too used to shoot kodachrome, I shot plenty of 64 and 24 back in the 80's... used a lot of what was then the new 200 around 1989 in the states - very disappointed with the results. largely swore off and went fuji after that, I loved fujichrome 50 (it wasn't K25, but it was something goooood).
life's certainly easier with digital.
life's certainly easier with digital.