Really interesting collection of photos. http://www.shorpy.com/image/tid/179
Really interesting collection of photos. http://www.shorpy.com/image/tid/179
Beautiful!
And what a shame it is that (as I write this) Kodachrome is now completely gone in all formats.
4x5 Kodachrome was long gone by the time I started shooting it.
I wonder what it would take to bring it back in 4x5-inch now?
Anyone have a guess?
Bob G.
All natural images are analog. But the retina converts them to digital on their way to the brain.
Before he died, my old friend Howard Ross showed me some 8x10 Kodachromes of New England in the fall that he made in the 60's. I won't soon forget just how spectacular these looked. With environmental issues and patents standing in the path, I'm not sure we'll ever see Kodachrome again going forward, but I hope we see more examples of the Kodachrome of the past.
There's a number of links around here to various 4x5 Kodachrome collections. Some of it was done by news agencies, some of it was through one government agency or another.
Robert, did you know that Kodachrome was cut in 11x14 sizes? Wow! That must have been awesome!
Robert, did you know that Kodachrome was cut in 11x14 sizes? Wow! That must have been awesome![/QUOTE]
Holy cow! that's got to be pretty impressive.
Wonder who's going to buy the processing line from Dwayne, or if it'll just end up at the junkyard in Parsons...
Anyway, the link…uber cool. Thanks for posting!
Last year a saw a number of 5x7 Kodachromes of famous Hollywood celebreties of
the era. But the fellow who had them had in fact been a cameraman/assistant to a
NYC studio in his teenage years, and personally worked with 11X14 too. The chromes looked like they were taken yesterday, except for the fashions of course.
In the eighties I had the pleasure to print from about 6 8X10 Kodachromes of a new car show that was held here in Toronto, and they were amazing to see. Just as beautiful as the day they were processed.
Keith
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