[rollei_list] Re: Kodachrome
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:31:22 -0800 (PST)
I'd like to clarify that K-12 was the original process for Kodachrome II films
and K-11 was the process for the original three layers Kodachrome film, there
was a very old Kodachrome process from about 1913 that has nothing to do with
the "true" 1935 Kodachrome.
Rocky Mountain Film Laboratory also processes Kodachrome K-14 and even
K-11/K-12 films, however they do K11-12 Black and White only because Kodak no
longer manufactures the dyes coupler for K-12:
http://www.rockymountainfilm.com/oldfilm.htm
Carlos
--- El sáb 28-feb-09, Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> 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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