Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Lawlor <wvl@infinex.com> wrote: > Some boxes of old slides were passed to me recently by a relative. > They were in dirty yellow boxes "stored in the garage". All were > Kodachromes and Ektachromes taken by my father from 1958 > through 1972. The Kodachromes are stunning! The 1958-64 version > of that film is awesome. They scan beautifully and print on the Epson > 1270 with minimal corrections. I'm shooting plenty of K64 this year > and it doesn't compare with the old film. (I can't remember what version > was in production in those years. I should know because I spent > college summers then working on a big Kodachrome processor line at > Drewry Photocolor in L.A.) Bill, I believe that would be Kodachrome II. ASA 25. My dad's film of choice during those years. I have many boxes of Kodachrome slides taken by him during the 1950s & early '60s with various RF cameras, mostly a Contax II but also a Retina IIc and an M2. They document fishing trips way up into Canada and Alaska, visits to Scotland & England (the former being my mother's home country), vacations in Yellowstone & Yosemite & many other places and, of course, me as a youngster. This version of Kodachrome looks more saturated to me than the K25 I've been using since the '70s. I don't think it's as accurate as the later version but it certainly is vivid. As you note it has held up extremely well too. - -Dave- - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html