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Subject: Vs: [Leica] Re: Kodachrome
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:06:12 +0200

The May 2000 Practical Photography has a huge colour film test - K25 is judged "long in the tooth" - poor colours with magenta cast (good grain and sharpness, though) and K64 "good for portraits" - lack of saturation, bland colours (sharpness and grain excellent). My own experience is quite similar.
In my 37 years of photography have lost only two films in transit - 2 Kodachromes and both at the same time. They contained some not repeatable images of stormy sea taken aboard a ship. I was not amused.
All the best!
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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Päivä: 01. kesäkuuta 2000 2:43
Aihe: [Leica] Re: Kodachrome


>
>Kodachrome seems to be have a serious following here, but I've yet to be
>convinced.  I shot gardens with K64 in Kyoto, and the colors were *dire*
>relative to the same scenes shot with Velvia:  muddy, with a distinct
>green-brown bias.  Reds were dull.  It does seem about as sharp as Provia
>F -- perhaps not quite -- but I vastly prefer the color balance in the new
>Provia, if I'm seeking neutrality.  For saturation, I'll shoot Velvia or
>E100VS.
>
>I intend to take some K64 out in Manhattan, to see whether it's just the
>bucolic stuff that it mangles, but I really don't like it much.  (Is K25
>much different?)
>
>
>Douglas Cooper
>
>

Replies: Reply from Andre Jean Quintal <megamax@abacom.com> ([Leica] Re: Kodachrome -- flip side)
Reply from Bernard <4829.g23@g23.relcom.ru> (Re: Vs: [Leica] Re: Kodachrome)
Reply from "Simon Lamb" <s_lamb@compuserve.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: Kodachrome)