Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]claire wrote: > > Dear Mark, > U wrote ...... > > >Also I think a key to Singh's look technically speaking is his use of > Kodachrome 25. > > I don't understand.... could U please elaborate ? Thanks.... > > >And I played with their new Voigtlander which is like a Holga with and > >Aspheric lens. My wife and I will both be getting one. > > I envy U and envy U, why why two two ? I heard its got only 2 lenses , is > that true ? How much does it it cost cost ? > > TMLee Because if it's her camera she's going to shoot color and she's not going to appreciate it if I borrow it and stick Tri x in it. It so far has 2 lenses of its own but as it is a Leica Screw mount it can take any Leica screw mount lens. And It's cheap enough to get two if I catch your double meaning which I suspect I don't. Kodachrome 25 is a real purists slide film which is a long story but it can't just be processed anywhere in two hours but must be sent out. But it's looking like a 24 hour deal now here in Portland Oregon which means the outlook has improved on that. Lots of people here on the Lug have given it up for dead. It has a smooth look that I like and I think is still the highest resolution film still around. The old fashioned color I like. In 1970 I shot a brick of it's precursor Kodachrome II all around Bavaria and Northern Italy. It was also rated at ASA 25 often now thought of I think as too slow to live. Mark vs Rabiner