Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To all you Kodachromists, Until you have tried some of the new E-6 films don't knock 'em. I stopped using Kodachrome several years ago when some of the E-6 films became better and far far easier to find processing. People always resist change, especially photographers. The great majority of magazines stopped using Kodachrome years ago (a colleague of mine who now uses all E-6 films refers to Kodachrome these days as Kodachrap). The #1 choice is Fuji Velvia but although rated ISO 50 my tests show it an ISO40 film. Very contrasty with a lot of color punch. Kodak does offer 3 variations of their new Kodak Ektachrome film which are much better than older Ektachromes many remember. There are E100S, E100SW, and soon E100VS. These are true ISO 100 films. The S means Saturated color, SW Saturated with Warmer coloring, and soon to be available VS means Vivid Saturated color (alleged to be the most Velvia like). The benefit to these newer films over Kodachrome it that they are more accurate in color rendition, but most offer better color saturation. Example, Kodachrome can not reproduce purple well, it comes out as blue. All the new E-6 films can reproduce purple and other colors much more accurate comparable and often better grain than K25 or K64. Peter K (Happy E-6 user)