Hmm...what to say about Kodachrome 64...? If I were forced to choose only
one color film, this would be it. Sure, it's been surpassed in sharpness
and saturation by other films. But nothing else does almost everything well
- Kodachrome does. It's sharp enough and colorful enough for most needs,
seeming "less good" only when directly compared with other films.
What it does better than anything else I've tried is reproduce skin tones
faithfully. It loves every skin tone on earth, which is probably why
National Geographic used it so much for years.
Despite a relatively narrow exposure latitude it's still fast enough for
handheld photography in good light.
Folks who've already seen my TOPE 3 photo of a pair of lush, purplish
Mexican petunias can skip the following URL; otherwise:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=1005538&a=7442500&p=26757317
OM-1, Zuiko 50/3.5 macro, Kodachrome 64, handheld on a blustery late-spring
day. Don't quite recall the exposure but shutter speed must have been fast
enough to offset the gusts. I'm guessing 1/250 @ f/5.6 or f/8.
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Lex Jenkins
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"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
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