[Leica] Kodachrome is back...

[Tina Manley]

Yes, exactly.

Tina

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:08 PM Christopher Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> Problem is VSCO only sells their presets for mobile devices now. They
> discontinued the version that was a lightroom plugin.
>
> Really, those presets all suck anyway. They NEVER look like real film and
> usually have crappy color and gradation. I get far better results just
> processing my RAW files in LR with no presets or plugins. I have tried VSCO
> (back when it was sold as a LR plugin) and a few other film-simulation
> plugins. Didn't like any of them.
>
>
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> On 9/15/20, 6:31 PM, "LUG on behalf of Richard Man" <lug-bounces+chris=
> chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
> richard at richardman.photo> wrote:
>
>     OK, this is the type of stubbornness that I appreciate.
>
>     Background: Kodachrome, with such vibrant colors that Paul Simon even
> wrote
>     a song about it. It was created by "God and Man" (Leopold Godowsky Jr.
> and
>     Leopold Mannes) in the 1930s. SADLY, I did not take many Kodachrome
> photos
>     myself.
>
>     The process went kaput when the last lab shut down and it's not a
> process
>     that people can just do at home, unlike other slide films. So when a
>     company that sells digital presets that simulate film-look wanted to
>     release a Kodachrome preset, they just asked people to send in their
>     Kodachrome slides.
>
>     No, wait, they spent two years painstakingly recreated the Kodachrome
>     development process and chemicals.
>
>     I APPROVE OF THIS STUBBORNNESS / FOOLISHNESS. I mean, we went to the
> Moon
>     because it is not easy.
>
>
> https://petapixel.com/2020/09/15/vsco-went-full-macgyver-to-create-an-authentic-kodachome-film-simulation
>
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