At 20:01 9/23/01, Garth Wood wrote:
Once again, I'm falling in love with Kodachrome 64, after having shot a
couple of rolls for old times' sake. Awesome colour fidelity and
rendition. Nice saturation. Incredibly fine grain. I know very little
about the genius(es) who created this stuff around 60 years ago, but I tip
my hat to 'em. Now I'm gonna blow a few rolls of the stuff on the fall
foliage around these parts. My only regret is that fewer and fewer places
anywhere are processing Kodachrome, so turnaround times are long (I'm
averaging two to three weeks) and costs remain high. (And the included
mailers are virtually useless in Canada.)
**HEAVY SIGH**
I even like Kodachrome for portraiture, certainly as much as any
"dedicated" portraiture film like Portra. I wonder if Kodak would ever
consider *improving* the stuff, or if digital has it doomed.
I keep dreaming of the same . . . an improved Kodachrome, perhaps retaining
the same granularity and overall characteristics at ISO 100. Its
significant difference compared to the E-6's (in addition to color
rendition) is the lack of dye linkers which makes K-14 emulsion much
thinner (the dye linkers must be added during processing). Just got yet
another roll of KR-64 back from processing and marveled at the detail levels.
Mark Dapoz mentions Provia 100F which I use in the medium format rig (no
120 Kodachrome for some time now). It is an exceptionally fine grain film
with slightly different color rendition, but still close. One problem with
Provia which Mark may not have encountered yet. Bright point sources of
light create a blob on the film. It's as if the light flares across the
eumulsion layers sideways and bleeds into surrounding emulsion. I know
it's not the lens; it looks distinctively different from lens flare. I've
also heard photogs who do a lot of train photography complain about it
(bright engine headlamps).
-- John
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