I still have a roll of 120 Kodachrome in the freezer. Kept it just for the hell of it. Might
be worth a lot of money someday to career frozen undevelopable film collectors!
Yes me too. I have a brick of it in 120 left in the freezer. Frankly, some of the finest images I've ever made in MF and SF are Kodachromes. It had some quirks like all films do but once you got used to them its performance was predictable and beautiful. I guess perhaps my reason for becoming nostalgic and wanting to come close to duplicating it with something newer in LF.
I also have half a dozen or so K-25 and K-64 left. Perhaps I'll use a few before Dwayne's pulls the plug. A few more examples attached. Bob G.
All natural images are analog. But the retina converts them to digital on their way to the brain.
The film I use at sunset, blue hour, or night, is Kodak E100VS. If you don't like the saturation that much, I would suggest over-exposing by 1/3 stop.
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Gordon: You are absolutely right on that. I use it sometimes for that application with 617 format and the pictures are very nice. It did a nice job for me on a recent trip to NYC as you can see.
It's super-saturation during the day is a bit much for me though and I haven't found any way to make it simulate Kodachrome. Cheers. Bob G.
All natural images are analog. But the retina converts them to digital on their way to the brain.
We found a box of my grandmother's Kodachromes from 1939. It was amazing, and kind of spooky ... I'm used to thinking that the world back then existed only in black and white, or in some kind of old-timey color palette. To see it looking precisely like today (at least it seemed so ... this was in the 80s and the kodachrome palette was still familiar) was pretty amazing. My handsome young grandfather trying to look studious and authoritarian with his pipe and bath robe, close enough to touch ...
The sad fact of life is that Kodachrome CAN'T be duplicated by any E-6 film. It was
just another kind of animal altogether. You could pick one or two particular features
of it and find something analogous in a present film, but overall, we just have to learn things over again (or over and over and over, because film selection is always
changing). But E-6 films have dramatically improved since the heyday of Kodachrome, which I gave up way back when I switched mainly to large format.
Drew: After starting this thread with less than high hopes, and following it through, and trying numerous other color films (underexposed, overexposed, cross-processed, etc.) I tend to agree with you.
Sometimes I can get the colors but not the grain. Sometimes the grain and not the colors. More often than not I can get a few of the colors but not the overall palette. I see this frequently with cross-processing or in the color shifts with long exposures.
But it didn't hurt to ask and I got some good suggestions for other trials.
Cheers. Bob G.
All natural images are analog. But the retina converts them to digital on their way to the brain.
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