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Beautiful pictures. I would have loved to have shot Kodachrome before Kodak stopped manufacturing it; the closest we can get today is Ektachrome (which has also

Beautiful pictures. I would have loved to have shot Kodachrome before Kodak stopped manufacturing it; the closest we can get today is Ektachrome (which has also been reformulated over the years).

dingaling 3y ago
Yes the saturation, detail and dynamic range is stunning. Digital is great in its own way, but never quite achieves the 'look' of slide.
- woodruffw 3y ago
  Yeah. It's all in the eye of the beholder, but I find Kodachrome/Ektachrome's saturated colors very aesthetically pleasing, while similarly saturated digital photographs come off as sterile and overly processed (the kind you'd see on a hotel's website).
ghaff 3y ago
Ektachrome got a lot better over the years (starting with around the Lumiere era in the 90s) and, really, it was Kodachrome 25 that was special--which was obviously ridiculously slow by modern ISO standards. Always like KC 25 a lot more than the colors of Fuji's Velvia which while nominally ISO 50 was really about the same effective speed.
fidotron 3y ago
It is kind of funny just how different Kodachrome and Ektachrome look though. To me Ektachrome seems cold while Kodachrome always looks like the 1970s in spite of the fact it was preferred by archivists because it remains stable in storage so well. Velvia was another film stock that seemed to have an outsized personality.
shrubble 3y ago
I still have some Kodachrome slides and when you get the exposure right, and the scene is within the dynamic range ... it's something quite magical! Should scan them and put them online sometime...
whyenot 3y ago
Kodachrome required a lot more equipment and chemicals to develop. There used to be a Kodak processing plant in Palo Alto on Page Mill Road. As a high school student, I applied for a job there and got a tour. I just remember a lot of equipment in dimly lit rooms. It was a big facility. I didn’t end up getting the job and ended up working as a page at the pubilc library.
parenthesis 3y ago
The other day I found an unused Kodachrome film I'd forgotten I had. Kodachrome 64 is my all time favourite film.

Beautiful pictures. I would have loved to have shot Kodachrome before Kodak stopped manufacturing it; the closest we can get today is Ektachrome (which has also been reformulated over the years).

dingaling 3y ago

Yes the saturation, detail and dynamic range is stunning. Digital is great in its own way, but never quite achieves the 'look' of slide.

woodruffw 3y ago
Yeah. It's all in the eye of the beholder, but I find Kodachrome/Ektachrome's saturated colors very aesthetically pleasing, while similarly saturated digital photographs come off as sterile and overly processed (the kind you'd see on a hotel's website).

ghaff 3y ago

Ektachrome got a lot better over the years (starting with around the Lumiere era in the 90s) and, really, it was Kodachrome 25 that was special--which was obviously ridiculously slow by modern ISO standards. Always like KC 25 a lot more than the colors of Fuji's Velvia which while nominally ISO 50 was really about the same effective speed.

fidotron 3y ago

It is kind of funny just how different Kodachrome and Ektachrome look though. To me Ektachrome seems cold while Kodachrome always looks like the 1970s in spite of the fact it was preferred by archivists because it remains stable in storage so well. Velvia was another film stock that seemed to have an outsized personality.

shrubble 3y ago

I still have some Kodachrome slides and when you get the exposure right, and the scene is within the dynamic range ... it's something quite magical! Should scan them and put them online sometime...

whyenot 3y ago

Kodachrome required a lot more equipment and chemicals to develop. There used to be a Kodak processing plant in Palo Alto on Page Mill Road. As a high school student, I applied for a job there and got a tour. I just remember a lot of equipment in dimly lit rooms. It was a big facility. I didn’t end up getting the job and ended up working as a page at the pubilc library.

parenthesis 3y ago

The other day I found an unused Kodachrome film I'd forgotten I had. Kodachrome 64 is my all time favourite film.