colterphoto1 Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 http://www.switched.com/2008/09/24/old-school-kodachrome-film-on-the-way-out?icid=100214839x1210277053x1200621296 Oh little Nikon, we hardly knew ye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 Kodachrome( Paul Simon )When I think backOn all the crap I learned in high schoolIt's a wonderI can think at allAnd though my lack of educationHasn't hurt me noneI can read the writing on the wallKodachromeYou give us those nice bright colorsYou give us the greens of summersMakes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!I got a Nikon cameraI love to take a photographSo Mama, don't take my Kodachrome awayIf you took all the girls I knewWhen I was singleAnd brought them all together for one nightI know they'd never matchMy sweet imaginationAnd everything looks worse in black and whiteKodachromeYou give us those nice bright colorsYou give us the greens of summersMakes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!I got a Nikon cameraI love to take a photographSo Mama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my KodachromeMama, don't take my KodachromeMama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)Mama, don't take my KodachromeMama, don't take my KodachromeMama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)Mama, don't take my Kodachrome(Leave your boy so far from home)Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Someone should write a song about Velvia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 That's so sad!! Nothing equals K-chrome's depth, richness and snap of reds and related colors IMO, and my 40-year-old Kchrome slides are STILL as good as new! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 That's not true in my case. The best I have seen was 5247 for color accuracy. Typical slides taken in the 50's and 60's have blue decay marks which I have to photoshop out the defects. Takes a long time to fix them and bring back the faded colors, lost contrast, poor gamma, burned centers, fingerprints, and lastly hairs. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Typical slides taken in the 50's and 60's have blue decay marks which I have to photoshop out the defects. Takes a long time to fix them and bring back the faded colors, lost contrast, poor gamma, burned centers, fingerprints, and lastly hairs. Are you sure that was Kodachrome? Ektachrome slides from that era faded terribly after a few years or decades, and became shot through with blue discoloration. I don't know how well other E-6 slides like Velvia hold up, but I have no fears about pulling out my early 1960's-vintage Kodachromes. I keep 'em in the dark, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderbender Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Times, they are a changing........Shame really...I loved to shoot underwater shallow with only natural light with Koda......much nicer than Velvia IMO kodak Will probably still do custom runs if the price is right....they did it all the time for my buddy Clyde Butcher on custom sizes even....but every run required a $10,000 minimum purchase.......some "boutique" High end shops might do the same...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boom3 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 My father's Kodachrome slides from 1950 on are still wonderful. i scanned about 200 of them after he passed in 2000. He & my brother shot a few Ektachromes in the early 60s, they have all turned blue, and trying to ressurect them after scanning is almost hopeless.In the 80s I started using Fuji film and never went back to Kodak products. I think the Kodachrome in danger of being lost is now the 100 speed. There was a similar outcry when Kodak killed Kodachrome25, the original Kodachrome. K25 set the standard for saturation and gamut of color, and some pros feel nothing has ever replaced it.I've moved into the digital realm but I treasure my dad's K25 slides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 My slides are nearly all K25's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted September 27, 2008 Author Share Posted September 27, 2008 Kodachrome slides are about all I have left of my Father's lifetime of photography. At some point my folks basement flooded and all prints and negatives were destroyed. Mom didn't have the heart to tell us. I have about 10 slide trays and that's it. I'm thankful that he put those on the top shelf! REAL Men shoot slide film- you have to bang on with the exposure and quality of light. No fixing it in the print, ya know? M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Richard Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 I still use film for B+W and color, still have my Nikon stuff. Kodachrome is the best for color and sharpness, although a bit slow. Nikon's excellent metering makes it easy to get good slide exposures, I rarely bracket exposures anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 I've a boatload of Kodachrome 25, 64, and 200 that goes back to the Vietnam war. Always my favorite. The stuff I shot in the Golden Triangle in the mid-80's never fails to excite on the big screen with a sharp lens and bright projector. 25 was awesome for setting on bulb at night, then wandering around and popping a strobe on this and that. O. Winston Link on drugs... Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 The latest issue of the Smithsonian magazine has an article on the re-discovery of over 1,000 Kodachrome slides taken by a photographer in 1950 at the start of the Korean War! The quality of the detail and color in those permanent slides is amazing. Here is the only one I could see and copy from the Smithsonian website: Needless to say, the yellows and reds in these shots are incredible. They apparently were on exhibition in DC this summer, but escaped my attention. The quality extends to the people pics (the one above doesn't do justice to what appears in the mag). One pic of 5-star Gen. Douglas MacArthur and still-4-star Omar Bradley looks like it was taken yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 You know Paul Simon was pretty cool, specially in that little group he had with that cat named Garfunkel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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