[Leica] Kodachrome is back...

[Wayne Torry]

Fair enough. I have weaned myself away from most of the LR presets I
collected.
IT was fun while it lasted.
PS: I was trying to access the preset from my iPhone 5s.
That’s probably the why it didn’t work. Prehistoric phone. 😄



On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:23 PM Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:

> Guys, the finger is pointing to the dedication/foolishness of such
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> endeavor, not the product itself, ha ha
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> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 4:17 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
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> wrote:
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> > Yes, exactly.
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> > Tina
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> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:08 PM Christopher Crawford <
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> > chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
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> > > Problem is VSCO only sells their presets for mobile devices now. They
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> > > discontinued the version that was a lightroom plugin.
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> > >
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> > > Really, those presets all suck anyway. They NEVER look like real film
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> > > usually have crappy color and gradation. I get far better results just
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> > > processing my RAW files in LR with no presets or plugins. I have tried
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> > VSCO
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> > > (back when it was sold as a LR plugin) and a few other film-simulation
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> > > plugins. Didn't like any of them.
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> > >
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> > > --
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> > > Chris Crawford
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> > > Fort Wayne, Indiana
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> > > On 9/15/20, 6:31 PM, "LUG on behalf of Richard Man"
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> > > chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
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> > > richard at richardman.photo> wrote:
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> > >     OK, this is the type of stubbornness that I appreciate.
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> > >
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> > >     Background: Kodachrome, with such vibrant colors that Paul Simon
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> > > wrote
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> > >     a song about it. It was created by "God and Man" (Leopold Godowsky
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> > Jr.
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> > > and
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> > >     Leopold Mannes) in the 1930s. SADLY, I did not take many Kodachrome
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> > > photos
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> > >     myself.
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> > >
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> > >     The process went kaput when the last lab shut down and it's not a
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> > > process
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> > >     that people can just do at home, unlike other slide films. So when
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> > >     company that sells digital presets that simulate film-look wanted
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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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> > >
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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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> > >
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> > >     I APPROVE OF THIS STUBBORNNESS / FOOLISHNESS. I mean, we went to
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> > > 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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