Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: 'chrome stability
From: "David Kieltyka" <daverk@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 21:39:42 -0500
References: <200111160614.WAA27112@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> <001301c16ef7$bd86f380$b11d5142@BILL>

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-


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