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Check out these aviation photos from the 1940s...
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914
Fuji always "pushed green" back in the day. Made for great shots of green grass fields with or without other "targets" on the grass.
A couple of comments:
- Good photographs are made by good photographers. Ansel Adams with a Brownie camera could probably take better pictures than I ever will.
- Kodachrome gives you three things. Wait, 4 things.
The narrow exposure latitude is a benefit in that it makes the properly exposed portion of a photo (hopefully the important part) really jump off the page, while everything else fades to white or black with little or no definition.
- Outstanding color in properly exposed areas.
- Featureless washed out blobs 'o white in overexposed areas.
- Black pits of nothing in underexposed areas.
- Excellent definition
By turning the ISO way down and the contrast way up on today's cameras, you *might* be able to simulate the look of Kodachrome. I say might because I haven't tried.
As I scanned the thousands of photos that my dad took, it was amazing to see how well the Kodachrome stood the test of time & how many of the photos jumped off the slide. The nature of the K process was such that the photos and colors did not deteriorate in the same way as Ektachrome, B&W, or various color print films. Even at the highest scan resolutions (5400 dpi), the digital TIF files don't compare to the K slides.
I always thought that Kodachrome gave you
- Nice bright colors
- Greens of summers
- Makes you think all the world's a sunny day
The guy in number 23 is totally checking out that chick's rear end.
The guy in number 23 is totally checking out that chick's rear end.
That "guy" looks like a chick to me.
That "guy" looks like a chick to me.
One of the most common illusions of all time is the spontaneous work photo.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. I greatly preferred Kodachrome. Shot a lot of that 'back in the day'.
That, and slow shutter speeds. The fastest Kodachrome was ISO 64. I can't imagine being saddled with that kind of limitation.
I miss Kodachrome, but I don't miss the price. My DSLRs have paid for themselves several times over by not having to buy and process film.
Cost-wise, you're correct. But film still has some advantages over digital. For one, it's got a broader dynamic range.