[rollei_list] Re: Kodachrome

You can see in any good book about the WWII with color images why Kodachrome 
was one of the films preferred to use in graphic arts/printing media for 
decades, most color images look very good in WWII books printed during the 
seventies and starting the eighties when did not exist PS, using images about 
30 and 35 years old. Even the famous portrait the photographer Steve McCurry 
took for the NGM about the afghan girl (NGM cover in June 1985, I have it in 
the magazine about the NGM 100 best covers) was taken using Kodachrome due to 
this film reputation at the high quality graphic arts/printing media.

BTW, the commercial problem for Kodachrome was the process, it's a complex 
process requiring very high exactness since the dyes couplers are incorporated 
during the film development, in the other hand the original Agfa color system 
included the couplers in the film via layers simplifying film development very 
much and then you have the current color films C-41 and E-6 process based on 
the old Agfa color system(BTW, the Agfa method had serious problems 
initially).Kodachrome was changing from the original K-12 process to the 
current K-14 process, however the main process features did not change very 
much.
I'm thinking about to buy some Kodachrome film in Freestyle, it wouldn't be 
different regarding the '50s and '60s when my father waited up to three months 
for his Kodachrome slides:

http://www.freestylephoto.biz/1560028-Kodak-Kodachrome-64-iso-35mm-x-36-exp.-KR?cat_id=1301

Carlos 


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