[Leica] Kodachrome

[Peter Dzwig]

That's a really interesting perspective. After all the Ur-Leica was designed to
use cinefilm!

Peter

On 14/02/2018 15:59, Gerry Walden via LUG wrote:
> 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
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> 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
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>> Don
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