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Shame, but the real death was when K25 went away eight years ago. Fiddly stuff, that, with no room for error (and slow lenses need not apply) but, damn, those c
by stan_rogers 16y ago
Shame, but the real death was when K25 went away eight years ago. Fiddly stuff, that, with no room for error (and slow lenses need not apply) but, damn, those colours! Fall foliage may never look the same. But I guess this guy, a handful of National Geographic types and a Paul Simon tune can't stop the march of progress.
- tlack 16y agoI think the only thing to do is buy a vintage old film camera and buy all the film you can. I switched from digital to film a few months ago and I'm enjoying the process so much more.
- jey 16y agoWon't do you much good if you can't develop that film.
- tlack 16y agoThere are 3 120 and 4x5 film development places within 15 minutes (driving) of my apartment.
- gchpaco 16y agoB&W film (which is I think the majority of those "new emulsions" is embarrassingly easy to develop; the list of possible developers includes random things like polluted river water and certain kinds of red wine. Color is touchier but can be done at home.
- sliverstorm 16y agoIs there a reason you cannot reproduce those colors? I'm guessing the film accentuates colors, rather than simply being more accurate than others, so with a very accurate (true-to-life) digital photo and a carefully designed 'shop filter, it should be reproducible.
- gchpaco 16y agoKodachrome used very different dyes than E6 (current slide film) or C41 (color negative; basically similar structure) and was sensitive to slightly different wavelengths. As a result its color gamut, as it were, is very different form either of those two, or digital (designed as it was to look like existing film). I'm not sure that a filter would be enough to "correct" for that; it could be a lot like trying to mimic infrared, which can be faked but not really replicated by anything that can't see into those wavelengths.