Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, JIM. I gave up on Kodachrome when they turned the developing over to Qualex. They managed to routinely ruin about 1/4 of the film I sent to them! Cutting through the middle of frames, splotches and chemical stains, awful color. That's when I switched to E6 film and started developing it myself. I don't think that was until the 90's, though. The Kodachrome I have from the 70's and 80's still look fine projected. I just need to figure out the best way to convert them to digital. I like the in-camera dupes I've been doing and some others do, too. Others hate them! Still working! Tina Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 3, 2017, at 8:03 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > > Tina, perhaps this is heresy, but I started out with ASA 10 Kodachrome in > the 1950s, and the colors were great, and most of those slides are still > unfaded. The later Kodachromes, when the ASA went up to 25 or so, just > never seemed to have the punch of the earlier stuff. By the 80s, I had > given up and was shooting Kodacolor for family pics. From then on, I shot > only various color-negative films until I went digital. I appreciate > your dedication, but I think it was Kodak that let you down. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > >> On 9/3/2017 6:35 PM, Tina Manley wrote: >> Alan, >> >> You must be on the digest. I have posted the original scan and an >> in-camera dupe without any processing. >> Nathan's photos, like 99% of those posted here, are digital. >> My photos are scans of Kodachrome from 1986. That is totally different. >> You cannot compare them. >> >> I am continuing to experiment with different ways to scan the Kodachromes >> and like the in-camera dupes so far. I hope I'll have time to work on >> some >> more of those, but most of my slides have already been scanned with the >> Nikon LS5000 and Vuescan. I'm not going to give up on these historical >> photos since they are selling very well as stock. Of all of the stock I >> sold last year, 1/3 were archival scans. Nobody seems to mind that they >> are old - maybe that's the reason they sold. >> >> Tina >> >> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at >> uwmalumni.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>> >>>> PESO: >>>> The actual title is Trains and Boats and Clotheslines and it's another >>>> one >>>> that would make a good jig saw puzzle. >>>> My question is about the Kodachrome corners. All of my KC slides have >>>> rounded black corners from the old KC cardboard mounts. I usually clone >>>> those corners out but then I wondered why. They are there and maybe >>>> part >>>> of the photo. >>>> What do you think? >>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/166121788 <http://www.pbase.com/image/ >>> 166121788> >>> >>>> Tina >>> ============================================================ >>> ============================================================ >>> I'd clone the corners to be square. >>> >>> But I don't see that as the main problem here. (To me, the image looks >>> terribly washed-out and it seems everything is either orange or green. >>> Even the shadows are green. Images from other posters (for instance >>> Nathan's) don't have these characteristics. >>> >>> Alan >>> >>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services >>> (Retired) >>> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 >>> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 >>> amr3 at uwm.edu >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >>> >>> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate >>> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information