It was before my time, but large format Kodachromes always excite me. The
colors are just THERE. It seems also that the contrast was lesser on early
Kodachrome sheet film. I'm thinking of a couple of snow scenes I've seen. In
any case, beautiful stuff.
Allan
> From: Jim Couch <JamesBCouch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: Spoke & Sprocket
> Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:44:03 -0800
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] The people who killed Kodachrome
>
> I remember those days as well (Does that make us old farts?) Life is certainly
> a matter of perspective isn't it? I have always loved the Kodachrome color
> palette. After having been out of active photography for a number of years I
> was really surprised to hear people say that they didn't like Kodachrome
> because the colors were to dull!
>
> John Prosper wrote:
>
>> This makes me smile. ;-) Remember the old days when Kodachrome was
>> considered the garish, super saturated maverick compared to all other
>> emulsions? Now the K-14 bunch is being regarded as a "natural color" film!
>> Isn't THAT a switch!?! ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> John
>
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