Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/11
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Like I said, don't knock it 'til you've tried it. The only thing that is
potentially better is Archival quality but the new ektachromes have improved
that too!
Acuity?? Nonsense!
Prettier palate?? Poppycock!! Kodachrome reproduces purple as blue, so
what palate?
Finer grain...Nope, not anymore. New T-grain emulsions in Ektachromes blow
away archane kodachrap.
Even Nat'l Geographic photogs stopped using it, except maybe on occasion.
Peter K
- -----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Merz [mailto:alexey@webcom.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 5:03 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] I for one am glad Kodachrome is dead or dying.[!]
"Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com> wrote:
[snip]
Peter leaves out some very real advantages of Kodachrome:
Objectively:
- -better acuity than *any* E6 emulsion, and better rendering of
fine details
- -Much better archival stability than E6 films (this is a *really*
big issue!!!!).
Subjectively:
- -a prettier palate than the current crop of E6 emulsions (although
I like Astia a lot).
- -a prettier grain structure (although, again, I like Astia).
I'm not a pro magazine photographer, and I am not beholden to
that industry's price-performance calculation.
For me, the qualities of Kodachrome are worth the wait and price.
It would sadden me enormously to lose Kodachrome 25 just at that
moment in my life where I have obtained optics capable of fully
exploiting that emulsion's characteristics.I dearly hope that
Eric Welch's speculation about Kodachrome 100 is correct. And
I think it bizarre that Peter would gloat over a reduction in the
variety of emulsions available to serious photographers, professional
or otherwise.
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