[Leica] QUESTION????? Kodachrome RIP

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

John, if what you are after is more wide open shooting with primes, 
you're actually better off today.

Yes, the sensors generally can't go below ISO 100, but the shutter 
speeds now go to 1/8000. So you can actually shoot one stop wider 
than in the days before electronic shutters. True, for a while in the 
80's and 90's you could shoot K25 with electronic shutter cameras, 
but that was just a blip :-).

   ...and there are always ND filters.

Also, if you're really serious about wide open performance, you can 
use very slow B&W document films which are still out there. No, it's 
not colour, but the ISO is well below 10.

As far as digital equalling K25, that happened quite a while ago, and 
any larger sensor camera (4/3 and up) can now blow K25 away. To get 
that K25 'look' you have to take that digital file, throw away the 
highlights and shadows, skew the colours and soften the detail. Then 
you're there.

It's a look I still like, but that's probably nostalgia talking.




At 4:47 PM +0000 6/23/09, J. Newell wrote:
>Ted, the probable answer is: "sure, digital resolution will equal 
>KM25 someday."  But the other question in my mind, which I think 
>pretty clearly is going to get a "no," is: "will we ever see a 
>hi-res sensor that has a native ISO sensitivity of 25?"  Everyone 
>wants to see in the dark with their variable aperture zooms - no one 
>wants to exploit the wide-open performance of superior 
>large-aperture primes in daylight (of course, not many people are 
>buying such lenses today, anyway).
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>I shot Kodachrome not just for the resolution and color but also for 
>its slow speed.  I used to shoot Ektar 25 for the same reason. 
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>*sigh*
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>John Newell
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:49:36 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>Subject: [Leica] QUESTION?????  Kodachrome RIP
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>QUESTION???????
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>Given how many of us have shot thousands of frames of Kodachrome and loved
>the results with great passion. Will there be a day when digital resolution
>will equal that of Kodachrome? Or are we there now? Or the foreseeable
>future? Or is it possible? Or is it really necessary given the quality of
>some digital cameras?
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>ted
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