Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html