tomlianza Posted June 8, 2010 Share #1 Posted June 8, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) I just loaded my last roll of Kodachrome into my trusty M6. We're heading out to Brixen in Italy for an ICC meeting and some photography in the mountains..... I decided to take the M6, M7 and the M8. Transparency film, Color Negative (Ektar 100) and the M8 for digital. It's so easy to pack M's vs the Nikon D3 and lenses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 8, 2010 Posted June 8, 2010 Hi tomlianza, Take a look here my last roll of Kodachrome in my M6. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
kdemas Posted June 8, 2010 Share #2 Posted June 8, 2010 Enjoy your last roll! I shot a roll on vacation last week myself. I still have around 30 rolls to cook off before December. Ektar is terrific and scans very well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dicko101 Posted June 8, 2010 Share #3 Posted June 8, 2010 Savour the moment! Also, I don't think anything looks as good as three M bodies placed side-by-side in a case. Enjoy the shooting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lagrassa Posted June 9, 2010 Share #4 Posted June 9, 2010 I have Ektar 100 in my M6 now, but next will be my last roll of K64. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4X5B&W Posted June 9, 2010 Share #5 Posted June 9, 2010 Ah, Kodachrome and Leica lenses, especially with a M body, just the perfect match. I am lucky enough to still have some freezer stored K25 and K64 available for shooting this year.....a very exciting time. It will be a real downer next year when there is no more processing available. Enjoy the moment Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted June 9, 2010 Share #6 Posted June 9, 2010 I have just been to a shop in Bolton to buy some film (very, very good prices, thanks Steve U ) They have about a dozen rolls of K64 left on their shelf and lots and lots of Ektar (amongst just about every other major film you can think of - Astia long gone though). This leads me to believe that either Ektar doesn't sell very well, or it's very popular so they keep a large stock. I should have asked really, as that's going to bug me for the rest of the day. I know what my guess would be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ash Posted June 9, 2010 Share #7 Posted June 9, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) I just received two rolls of Kodachrome. I have never shot Kodachrome thus I thought it might be better to do so in order not to regret later. Regards Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM-25 Posted June 13, 2010 Share #8 Posted June 13, 2010 I am at full volume now, weeks in Paris, Yosemite National Park, now finishing up "All the World's a Stage: Life in Times Square" with a *serious* bang. I had to rent a Canon EOS-1V ,35 1.4L and KS-6 gyro last night from Lens and Repro, needed to nail the daylights out of a dusk shot of Times Square from a chartered helicopter. Back to Leica and Xpan tonight, brilliant, drew people in, thousands in Times Square...this is really turning out incredible. Shooting ( chimping ) digital is like looking at the frets while you play guitar...shooting Kodachrome well is like playing guitar like no one has ever heard, seamless, free flowing, spine chilling, timeless, legendary Kodachrome.....forever....and ever....it draws people in...and they can't help but dance with you too..... Shoot this stuff like it will out live you, because it will. Kodachrome is a being that deserves all of your soul, all of your might...all of your sight.... Thank GOD I have over 800 rolls of this left, thank god........ Listening to the Stranglers, Golden Brown, what an awesome night.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aesop Posted June 14, 2010 Share #9 Posted June 14, 2010 <snip>...I have over 800 rolls of this left... ...over 800 rolls - gadzooks! Sounds like a lot of shooting needs to happen post-haste or else we'll be discussing pumpkin soup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM-25 Posted June 14, 2010 Share #10 Posted June 14, 2010 ...over 800 rolls - gadzooks! Sounds like a lot of shooting needs to happen post-haste or else we'll be discussing pumpkin soup. It's funny people think I am going to be stuck with a bunch of film at the end of the year, ideally, I will have around 40-50 left over, that is the target anyway. You have to remember, professionals simply shoot more for a variety of reasons, shooting 2-20 rolls a day, all day nearly every day being one of them. In 1980, NG Photographer Bill Allard shot 1,500 rolls in just 90 days while on assignment in Peru, although the editors did think that was excessive. My tally lately, 80 in Paris, 25 in Yosemite, Friday's aerial shoot of one hour was 8 rolls alone being a critical shot for the chapter on Times Square. Yesterday was 7 rolls as the XPan takes 36 exposures and turns it into 21. Today was another 8 rolls with all the activities during Puerto Rico Day here in NYC...and on it goes. I'll be sending another 100 or so rolls off to Dwayne's when I get back from New York, then a 2 week break for some commercial work, then back on the road with no breaks until 2011. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted June 14, 2010 Share #11 Posted June 14, 2010 "Shooting ( chimping ) digital is like looking at the frets while you play guitar...shooting Kodachrome well is like playing guitar like no one has ever heard, seamless, free flowing, spine chilling, timeless, legendary Kodachrome.....forever....and ever....it draws people in...and they can't help but dance with you too..... Shoot this stuff like it will out live you, because it will. Kodachrome is a being that deserves all of your soul, all of your might...all of your sight...." Paul Simon should hire you as lyricist for a commemorative remix of the old song.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur Posted June 18, 2010 Share #12 Posted June 18, 2010 Leica for the times of our life and kodachrome to colour it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 18, 2010 Share #13 Posted June 18, 2010 Nenad Bojic (NB23) has some nice KC64 images in the latest LFI. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB23 Posted June 22, 2010 Share #14 Posted June 22, 2010 Nenad Bojic (NB23) has some nice KC64 images in the latest LFI. I can't wait to receive the Issue! Kodachrome is such an amazing film. All has been said before but in fact, nothing has been said as Kodachrome is such a complex film. When the exposure is nailed, and I mean nailed down to 1/32nd of a stop (as opposed to the regular 1/4 we're used to with other slide film), Kodachrome images become a magical, incredible, extremely beautiful thing to look at. The problem with such exposure accuracy is that nailing Perfection is mainly a thing of luck. I am extremely happy to have jumped on the Kodachrome train One year ago. One thing is sure: I will not regret not having shot it, as opposed to many, many people. One more thing is sure: Photography will never be the same again. One last thing is sure: If it wasn't for Leica's optics, I wouldn't have shot so many Kodachromes. I just can't get myself to shoot Kodachrome in my Nikons. What seemed to be great optics simply fall short next to my Leicas, which elevate Kodachrome to what it truly is. I have 90 rolls left. I think it's enough to clear at least 100 Serious keepers. From then on, what will be left to do is a serious book and move on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted June 22, 2010 Share #15 Posted June 22, 2010 Enlighten us on how any camera can ever get to within 1/32 of a stop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB23 Posted June 22, 2010 Share #16 Posted June 22, 2010 Enlighten us on how any camera can ever get to within 1/32 of a stop. No enlightenment to be had. Once you realize the obvious answer to your question you will wonder why you asked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB23 Posted June 22, 2010 Share #17 Posted June 22, 2010 And I admit to be amazed by your question. Any comon sense on films and cameras and their interaction answers your question. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted June 22, 2010 Share #18 Posted June 22, 2010 And I admit to be amazed by your question. Any comon sense on films and cameras and their interaction answers your question. What is perfect exposure to one person may be too light or too dark for another. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB23 Posted June 23, 2010 Share #19 Posted June 23, 2010 What is perfect exposure to one person may be too light or too dark for another. No. This is absolutely foolish. Where did you get this idea? What is your photographic background? Self-thaught on various internet forums? Perfect exposure is perfect exposure. This is why a film is especially conceived with strict requirements and rated a given speed by scientists and engineers that work with many variables but pursue one single goal. We're talking FILM here. I believe that what you are talking about is the frivolous, fartistic and deliberate things people do to their images, like Draganizing them or changing them from night to day or making regular old people on the streets look like their directly out of an Afghanistan bombing nightmare. There is only one exact exposure. All the rest is either over or under. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted June 23, 2010 Share #20 Posted June 23, 2010 No.This is absolutely foolish. Where did you get this idea? What is your photographic background? Self-thaught on various internet forums? 1974 BS from RIT. Junior year at the Polytechnic of Central London. Hollis Todd, Richard Zakia, and Leslie Stroebel were a few of my profs in photo science classes. I've been a commercial photographer for 35 years and also owned a custom photo printing business. At RIT. we used to measure the standard deviation of film speeds, shutter, and aperture accuracy, metering accuracy, reading errors, etc. and graph them. Todd once said with all the variability it is amazing that images turn out so well so often. I took courses in statistics for process control. So when Ansel Adams decided to burn in a print to make some parts darker, that wasn't due to personal preference? The same when Gene Smith printed dark and then bleached out highlights by using a brush? Or when someone wants a high key look that is very light overall? The general concept of normal pictorial film photography relies on a characteristic curve that interprets tones rather than "accurate" tonal reproduction. This is why different kinds of films and methods of processing and printing exist. In a given scene it is up to the photographer to use materials and process to interpret the scene as he/she wants to depict it. For instance a person in shadow on a sunlit beach can be photographed "lighter" in order to show facial features and blow out the background or could be left dark to show the background detail. Or one could add some light onto the face so that it will hold detail along with the background. Which way is correct? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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