Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, exactly. Tina On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:08 PM Christopher Crawford < chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > Problem is VSCO only sells their presets for mobile devices now. They > discontinued the version that was a lightroom plugin. > > Really, those presets all suck anyway. They NEVER look like real film and > usually have crappy color and gradation. I get far better results just > processing my RAW files in LR with no presets or plugins. I have tried VSCO > (back when it was sold as a LR plugin) and a few other film-simulation > plugins. Didn't like any of them. > > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-437-8990 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > Like My Work on Facebook > > > ?On 9/15/20, 6:31 PM, "LUG on behalf of Richard Man" <lug-bounces+chris= > chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of > richard at richardman.photo> wrote: > > OK, this is the type of stubbornness that I appreciate. > > Background: Kodachrome, with such vibrant colors that Paul Simon even > wrote > a song about it. It was created by "God and Man" (Leopold Godowsky Jr. > and > Leopold Mannes) in the 1930s. SADLY, I did not take many Kodachrome > photos > myself. > > The process went kaput when the last lab shut down and it's not a > process > that people can just do at home, unlike other slide films. So when a > company that sells digital presets that simulate film-look wanted to > release a Kodachrome preset, they just asked people to send in their > Kodachrome slides. > > No, wait, they spent two years painstakingly recreated the Kodachrome > development process and chemicals. > > I APPROVE OF THIS STUBBORNNESS / FOOLISHNESS. I mean, we went to the > Moon > because it is not easy. > > > https://petapixel.com/2020/09/15/vsco-went-full-macgyver-to-create-an-authentic-kodachome-film-simulation > > -- > "Some People Drive, We Are Driven" > https://richardman.photo > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>