Kodachrome - Page 4

I suggest you save your bandwidth and donate it to the real posters instead of compulsively wasting it.

OK Humpti-dumpti i will.

WSJ rememberance: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124631829284470853.html

Nantucket, have you tried Ektar yet? I'm still shooting 400NC (it's what I've always shot), but the whole "finest grain ever" thing is a little intriguing.

Nice.

i just bought 50 rolls of kodachrome from dwaynes the other day

does ektar=ektachrome?

my local camera store carries and process it, would this be the next best thing to kodachrome?

i know it like kodachrome is color reveral film [right?], which provides more saturated colors [right?]

also, any other similar films i might try that are readily available and easy to process.

i hate that i missed the boat on kodachrome, i wish i'd have been interested in photography when it was still widely available.

robbie

Ektar is a color negative film (process C-41).
Ektachrome is a color reversal/slide film (process E-6)
Kodachrome is a special process that is unlike either - you're generating color with silver deposits rather than dyes, I believe.

Whether Ektachrome is the next best thing to Kodachrome, hard to say. No slide films match the exposure characteristics or color palette of Kodacrhome, that's a large part of why people are willing to drop ~$35/roll all told to purchase and process.

Kodak and Fuji both make lines of E-6 films that vary from muted tones to unnatural colors (Velvia, I'm looking at you). I was a fan of Fuji Provia in my film days.

Sadly, Kodachrome is effectively no more. Here's an article from the "Australian" newspaper (via AP) about the very last roll of Kodachrome and how it was used by Steve McCurry: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/trav...-1225900420304 McCurry's comment on looking at Kodachrome slides that he had shot in the late 1960s and early 1970s really resonated with me: I think that it's a very legitimate concern. I have a Nikon film camera and I've shot Kodachrome and Ektachrome in the past but - for convenience, mainly as I have two young kids - I tend to use digital cameras nowadays. It does make one think, however, about how digital images will be stored in the future - what will the preferred format be, will we still be able to read images stored in older formats, and so on? Disc degradation is a real concern, too.