[pure-silver] Re: Comparing the Image Quality of Film and Digital
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My Kodachrome 25 & 64 slides look as vivid and vibrant as they did when I made
them decades ago.
"A photograph that mirrors reality, cannot compare to one that reflects the
spirit"
On Dec 30, 2014, at 2:46 PM, "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hi!
>>
>> For awhile in the 80s, Kodachrome was available in 120 roll film.
>> Someone posted some great
>> Kodachromes of World War II American woman making planes for the war
>> effort, on this list back awhile. No other film holds
>> up as well as Kodachrome!
>>
>>
>> Rich
>
> I shot slides on 120 Kodachrome with a Rolleiflex. At that size it looks
> like you could stick you arm into the picture and touch things. However, I
> think this was pretty late, 1980s or around there.
> There are extensive archives of Kodachrome pictures at the Library of
> Congress site. These are well scanned but not edited. They are available in
> lossless compression (drawing a blank on the name) files that are extremely
> large but will give you full resolution of the scan if you want to work on
> them in Photoshop or Gimp. Of course, you can also do simple color
> correction from the smaller JPG files there. There is a site called Shorpy
> that has edited photos from the LOC but there are a lot more at the main
> site. Kodachrome has exceptional dark storage longevity. This is one reason
> stock photographers were sorry to see it go. Ektachrome actaully takes
> projection better but will not last as long in storage.
> The early Kodachrome was extremely fine grain compared to other color
> materials but modern color films are superior.
> Color negative films have the advantage of allowing relatively simple
> masking to correct for the spurious responses of the dyes. Methods of masking
> reversal films are available now and I think are used in some. I think it
> was Westley T. Hanson of Kodak Labs that thought up the method of using
> colored couplers for masking. These couplers, which exist in two of the three
> layers, account for the amber color of Ektacolor and similar color negative
> films. Of course, modern color films have many more than three layers since
> each color can be produced by as many as three layers each with some
> different characteristic.
>
>
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> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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