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vor 8 Stunden schrieb adan:

I would accept all of those as being "in the ballpark" of Kodachrome in one of its many moods, while closer to the pre-1974 versions. They have the contrasty-but-not-saturated look KI/II produced sometimes when exposed "bright." Certainly more like Kodachrome than like the various flavors of E6 films or color negs.

They would "pass" for Kchrome if I saw them in a National Geographic magazine from 1965 ± 10 years.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/kodachrome-photo-gallery/

About the only thing that looks a bit odd is the smaller, lower, stoplight in #3. I don't ever remember a stoplight blowing to yellow that much with Kodachrome. But that may just be the new intense LED traffic lights we have these days.

Don't know if you saw this site, which has some more examples. http://radoslawpujan.com/blog/kodachrome/

 

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To go further in the chromatic rendering of this Kodachrome 64 (as sample of large subtle hues more visible on the projected slide😞 )

Let's have a close look at the center of the previous full slide, here 100% crop.

Let's just count the greens (of this small part) and the subtle "pink" of the house and the deep colors of the greens and other beige of the paths ...

Yellow/red patterns and over all the pinkish roofs ...

 

 

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For comparing purpose, here we see the "green" hues of Fujifilm Velvia 100

taken with mostly the same setup as the previous K64 Luxembourg

the M5 was carefully metered, even if this can be "seen as overexposed" (maybe the lighting)

 

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image from summer 2008 on Velvia 100

by then I wanted to "replace" the beloved Kodachrome as I knew that period

was near the end of it's production

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as side note, I've never seen with other films (or digital sensor) the "look" of Kodachrome greens (or red or blue or...)

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Here's another, should be KM25. Talking about greens..

 

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Question. Why are there sometimes faded blacks and then again bold contrast, even under similar lighting situations? 

Is it because the film got pushed or pulled? Different lenses? 

I mean I am learning a lot. It’s just tough right now to find a common look, that was somehow frequent. 

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I’m having trouble figuring out how you decide that these weird colours are better than those weird colours. Were the Kodak alchemists mixing chemicals with something in mind or was it a case of “do you think you can sell this?” sent from lab to marketing?

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I have a fair number of Kodachrome slides to be scanned.
These are the only ones I've scanned so far.

However, stage lighting is very different to daytime landscapes/streetscapes.

Santana, early 1980s

Kodachrome 64
Coolscan 5000, Silverfast

 

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Santana, early 1980s

Kodachrome 64
Coolscan 5000, Silverfast

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Santana, early 1980s

Kodachrome 64
Coolscan 5000, Silverfast

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vor 3 Stunden schrieb a.noctilux:

In my decades use, it was not easy (if not possible at all) to have pushed or pulled processed Kodachrome.

Which are the "faded blacks" /"bold contrast" you refered to ?

That’s what my informations were, too. Just wanted to ensure I am not missing something.

I feel Iike your examples have always a tad faded blacks, while most other scans in here are quite bold.

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vor 3 Stunden schrieb Exodies:

I’m having trouble figuring out how you decide that these weird colours are better than those weird colours. Were the Kodak alchemists mixing chemicals with something in mind or was it a case of “do you think you can sell this?” sent from lab to marketing?

All matter of taste I think.

I hope they had something in mind and have not just thrown something out there to make money.

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Mark,

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I like Santana, but I have never seen him and his guys on stage.

Those colors are something incredible.

I must admit that in my own Kodachrome, I rarely encounter such "crying" colors ( in good "richness", of course).

 

Sam,

maybe my style of photographing or just my scanning (lack of) skill to be improved.

 

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As a rule I would generally underexposed K 64 by -1/3 stop. The K 25 and K 200 almost always let the exposure alone. I loved the “punch” of K’s colors. I turned to Fuji 50 and 100 when my stock of K was gone. Fuji gave very strong green, still does.

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Hi Sam

Below should be a link to a smugmug gallery with 22 pics taken on Kodachrome in 1957.

Voigtlander Vito III, Ultron f/2 lens, Scanned with Epson Perfection 3200 Photo,

 

https://alexanderrosser.smugmug.com/The-Kings-School/Kings-1957

They are a bit crappy with the usual spots, scratches etc. If you, or anyone, can point me to some good software for cleaning up old pics I would be grateful. Most software seems to be obsessed with umpteen variations on adjusting the colours. e.g. Luminar 3

Alex

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Hello Alex,

The scanner is very important, and good dedicated film scanner can be scarse and needs some know-how to exploit it at best.

I began with Nikon Coolscan V ED (project to scan all or most of my Kodachrome as it has "kodachrome" preset, in 2007-2008).

With time, dusty/scratched slides can be handle with it's ICE which is effective in most cases (not be usable on silver b&w negatives).

Since I want to speed up the scan process, I explored also digital camera "scanning" for a while.

Camera scans have so much dust/spots/scratches, some color shifts that I "almost gave up" and return to Coolscan V ED for periodic scanning.

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I've learned that scanning is very long and not always "like originals".

And each film from different maker can be very difficult to reproduce,

even if some "interpretations" can give some good scans,

like here (link below) with Fujifilm 100 Provia F

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/284086-leica-m-film-photos-feel-free-to-share-yours/?do=findComment&comment=3602700

 

 

 

 

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