Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/08

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Subject: Re: Kodachrome, Kodalux, Qualudes ...
From: "Charles E. Love, Jr." <cel14@cornell.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 18:45:16 -0500 (EST)

At 05:55 PM 12/6/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Charlie - 
>
>        I for one think the new Ektachrome warmie stuff (SW) is fab. To each
>his own.
>        As for the grain in Kodachrome, I was always of the impression that
>Kodachrome was a dye transfer based emulsion. Grain therefore would be
>detectable only on a molecular level. Am I mistaken? It seems I learned (?)
>about this when I was in my teens. Perhaps my memory fails me.
>
>Long live Ektachrome SW!!!
>
>ben
>
I have never heard this,  but in raising a question like this you are now
approaching the level of my incompetence.  But I certainly see grain in big
Kodachrome enlargements made from 35.

Charlie

Charles E. Love, Jr.
CEL14@CORNELL.EDU