Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Although I never used it in scientific photography (it seemed to lack the ability to "see" eosin stain in stained histological sections unless you used a special filter), the portraits that was able to get with Kodachrome were unrivaled in skin tones. Ektachrome always looked blue and red. Agfa, the People Color film, must have been better for portraits of Germans. They seemed orange to me. The combination of K25 and Cibachrome glossy paper was enough to make the biggest of critics buckle in the knees. Jeffery Smith wildlightphoto at earthlink.net wrote: > Ted Grant wrote: > > > QUESTION??????? > > Given how many of us have shot thousands of frames of Kodachrome and loved > the results with great passion. Will there be a day when digital resolution > will equal that of Kodachrome? Or are we there now? Or the foreseeable > future? Or is it possible? Or is it really necessary given the quality of > some digital cameras? > <<< > > My last roll of K25 was saved for the January 2007 meeting of the > California Hawking (falconry) Club, where numerous birds of prey were > perched on display. A the time the DMR was relatively new to me so I used > both the R8/DMR and a Leicaflex SL loaded with the precious K25, with the > 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt on each camera in turn. > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/falconidae/amke01.jpg > > Once the processed K25 returned I compared the slides with the DMR photos. > > Color quality: DMR, no contest > Image detail: DMR, no contest > Dynamic range: DMR, no contest > Grain/Noise: DMR, no contest > > All this with the DMR at ISO 400. > > I believe our memories of Kodachrome's color and detail are shaped by > comparison with the other films of its glory days, the Ektachromes, > Agfachromes and numerous forgettable emulsions. In its day it was the rock > I stood on, but we've moved on from there. It was a stepping stone to > where we are now. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com ? What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >