[Leica] Kodachrome

[Gerry Walden]

I understand that there is a demand from the movie industry who want a “non-digital” look to their films, so maybe that demand is growing to the balance point.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
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> On 14 Feb 2018, at 12:19, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> However, Polaroid is now selling SX-70 film again having purchased it back
> from Impossible Project and fixed the weird color issues.  I am now digging
> around for my SX-70 camera to start the whole knitting needle on image
> thing again.
> 
> As to Kodachrome, I can't imagine bringing back that process even for fine
> art creative types.  I suspect this is just a method to make a little money
> on nostalgia like the Life Magazine specials that appear every quarter or
> so.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:56 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think slide films are at the bottom now selling wise. They don't sell a
>> lot of the stuff. The last years of Kodachrome not a lot of people were
>> buying it but quite a few were buying and using Fujichrome.  Fujichrome did
>> replace Kodachrome in the hearts and minds of most serious photographers
>> you got it back and hour later instead of a few days and the color was
>> great.
>> It certainly replaced Ektachrom which always was cyan and horrible. But no
>> one used it. Fujichrome ruled.
>> Me I mainly shot color neg and black and white neg.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photographer
>> 
>> On 2/14/18, 2:18 AM, "LUG on behalf of Gerry Walden via LUG"
>> <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
>> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>> 
>>    I am intrigued that Kodak are now pushing Kodachrome photography
>> (note, I did not say Kodachrome is back) by publishing a new Kodachrome
>> magazine, edition 2 of which is now available at a price of £20 here in the
>> UK. It features Kodachrome images from the archives but is very expensive
>> for what it is. I also note that a contact sheet featured in Edition 2 was
>> shot on Ilford HP5, but it is what the featured photographer was using
>> ‘back in the day’.
>> 
>>    Does this re-emergence mean that they are trying to raise interest in
>> Kodachrome again? Pretty unlikely, but a strange move.
>> 
>>    Gerry
>> 
>>    Gerry Walden
>>    023 8046 3076
>>    0797 287 7932
>> 
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