[Leica] Kodachrome is back...

[Richard Man]

Guys, the finger is pointing to the dedication/foolishness of such
endeavor, not the product itself, ha ha

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 4:17 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chris Crawford
> > Fine Art Photography
> > Fort Wayne, Indiana
> > 260-437-8990
> >
> > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
> >
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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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