Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick wrote: > > If my feeble 5th sense serves me correctly... > > The last time I checked, Kodachrome was still a B&W film, with real silver > grain, and the color added in the processing. The result is a film with > "real" silver grain. > > Provia is an E6 film, where the color is within the film emulsion. > Processing completely strips away all silver, it having been replaced with > color globules. > > So in reality, Kodachrome will have grain and Provia will have globs. I'm > not sure that they can be scientifically compared. > > Jim GO5 Brick > Is the silver still in the film after processing or would that make a difference? Mark Rabiner