Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug is right on the ball here. The beginning of the end of Kodachrome was when really good E6 films came along, long before we were all shooting digital. Most people preferred the convenience of same day service to mailing it to some distant processing lab. I stuck with it until 2003, but I was also living in Switzerland the last 3 years, and the European processing was done there, so the postal delays were bearable. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:16 PM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net wrote: > Ted Grant wrote: > >>>> > QUESTION??????? > > 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? > <<< > > My last roll of K25 was saved for the January 2007 meeting of the > California Hawking (falconry) Club, where numerous birds of prey were > perched on display. A the time the DMR was relatively new to me so > I used > both the R8/DMR and a Leicaflex SL loaded with the precious K25, > with the > 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt on each camera in turn. > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/falconidae/amke01.jpg > > Once the processed K25 returned I compared the slides with the DMR > photos. > > Color quality: DMR, no contest > Image detail: DMR, no contest > Dynamic range: DMR, no contest > Grain/Noise: DMR, no contest > > All this with the DMR at ISO 400. > > I believe our memories of Kodachrome's color and detail are shaped by > comparison with the other films of its glory days, the Ektachromes, > Agfachromes and numerous forgettable emulsions. In its day it was > the rock > I stood on, but we've moved on from there. It was a stepping stone to > where we are now. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com ? What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information