Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/13

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Subject: RE: [Leica] I for one am glad Kodachrome is dead or dying.[!]
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:23:54 -0600

>Prettier palate??  Poppycock!!  Kodachrome reproduces purple as blue, so
>what palate?
>Finer grain...Nope, not anymore.  New T-grain emulsions in Ektachromes blow
>away archane kodachrap.

Color balance has nothing to do with E6 or K14, it has to do with the
current formula for the emulsion. Simple.

As for finer grain, do you know what color couplers are? E-6 has them in
the emulsion, K14 does not. Always will make Kodachrome potentially
superior to E6, because the emulsion can be thinner, the key to higher
sharpness and finer grain. Basic physics. 
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

"...nostalgia ain't what it used to be." ...unknown