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

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: 'chrome stability
From: "Bill" <bill@nelsch.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:06:16 -0700

Hi all,

All of my Europe in the 70's
(http://www.nelschvrooman.com/Photo/Europe/index.html ) were shot with
Kodachrome II and they are a bright today as they were in 1971.  The
Ektachrome didn't fare as well.

Bill I

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of David
> Kieltyka
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 7:40 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: 'chrome stability
>
>
> 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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