[rollei_list] Re: OT: Leica Film Length-Now Kodachrome
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:28:14 -0400
> In the period from the 1930s until the 1980s, I don't think there was
> any such thing as 120 format Kodachrome. As someone else noted, it
> was available in "miniature" formats 135 and 828 (which some people
> called "superslides") and in sheet film sizes.
>
> Pros would have shot it in a Graflex or a Deardorff or some such, and
> not in a Rollei TLR.
>
> Yes, it was eventually made available for a few years starting in the
> mid-to-late 1980s, but a pro market for Kodachrome failed to develop.
> By then, pros here in Chicago were very much used to using a
> combination of Polaroids for testing, and E-6 films with fast
> turnaround from pro labs.
>
> I was involved with testing some of the MF Kodachrome and I know I
> shot some in the 2.8F I owned at the time.
>
> As you probably already know, Kodachrome is a fussier film that had
> less latitude than E-6 and a very much warmer tone than Ektachrome.
> It was more prone to variations in processing and easily scratched.
>
> Once Fuji came out with Velvia, a warm-toned, sharp E-6 film, there
> was really no need for MF Kodachrome.
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Ektachrome 64 was a very flat film when it came to slides much flatter than
the rest but after that the next flattest was Kodachrome 25. A much easier
to shoot forgiving film than most slide films.
Mark William Rabiner
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