Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anthony Atkielski wrote: > From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 00:21 > Subject: [Leica] Re: Kodachrome processing > > > New Kodachrome "K-Labs" have been opening around > > the country. > > The country being the United States, I presume? I've always understood that the > only place in Europe that can process Kodachrome is in Lucerne, and so I've > never used Kodachrome in Europe. I don't like to wait days to see what I > photographed. > > I've also read in the instructions of my scanner that Kodachrome dyes are > different in some way and that they will not scan with the same parameters used > for other slides. I find that perplexing because, if the _look_ the same, I > don't see why they would not _scan_ the same. In both cases, it's red, blue, > and green light, right? > > -- Anthony Unless you happen to be a 'borg, your visual spectral sensitivity is not the same as that of either CCD devices, photomultiplier tubes or other (dupe) films. Kodachrome dyes are indeed different. That's why there are different Ektachrome dupe films for Kodachrome and E6-type chromes. It's the dye! - -Mike