[Leica] Flowers

[Michael Scarpitti <mikescarpitti@yahoo.com>]

Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Kodachrome      
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 20:12:53 -0500 Status: Normal 
From: "Bud Cook" <budcook@attglobal.net>   
I've been using Kodachrome since the 50's. I've never
liked Kodachrome 64 at all. It's OK if the final media
is prints but not for projection. On the other hand, I
find that Kodachrome 200 has a color rendition similar
to Kodachrome 25 and so I keep K25 in two bodies and
K200 in the third. I find that most of the stuff I see
on the Internet is gaudy and unnatural. I couldn't
imagine Leicas w/o Kodachrome 25. Bud Cook -----
Original Message ----- From: "Doug Cooper"
<visigoth@echonyc.com> To:
<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Cc:
<leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent:
Wednesday, May 31, 2000 7:00 PM Subject: [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 >  

I shot some flowers (petunias, I think they're called)
a couple of years ago on PKR using my 90mm
Summicron-R. I was astonished at the color saturation
and accuracy. Comparing it to E100S and E100SW, and
Velvomita as well as Provia 100 type II, which I shot
at the same time, there was no contest. The purples,
especially, could not be rendered accurately by the
E-6 films. They all looked sort of bluish-magenta.

Sharpness was noticeably better with the PKR than even
the Velvomita.


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