[Leica] Kodachrome is back...

Wayne Torry papatorry46 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 15:47:23 PDT 2020


An answer to my prayers.
Alas, Safari is telling me that the links to the preset don’t work.
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Thanks!
Wayne

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 6:32 PM Richard Man <richard at richardman.photo>
wrote:

> OK, this is the type of stubbornness that I appreciate.
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> Background: Kodachrome, with such vibrant colors that Paul Simon even wrote
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> a song about it. It was created by "God and Man" (Leopold Godowsky Jr. and
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> Leopold Mannes) in the 1930s. SADLY, I did not take many Kodachrome photos
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> myself.
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> The process went kaput when the last lab shut down and it's not a process
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> that people can just do at home, unlike other slide films. So when a
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> company that sells digital presets that simulate film-look wanted to
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> release a Kodachrome preset, they just asked people to send in their
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> Kodachrome slides.
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> No, wait, they spent two years painstakingly recreated the Kodachrome
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> development process and chemicals.
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> I APPROVE OF THIS STUBBORNNESS / FOOLISHNESS. I mean, we went to the Moon
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> because it is not easy.
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> https://petapixel.com/2020/09/15/vsco-went-full-macgyver-to-create-an-authentic-kodachome-film-simulation
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