[Leica] IMG: KC Corners

[Tina Manley]

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
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> 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
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>>> 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/
>>> 
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