----- Original Message -----
From: "Alice Kroehle" <akroehle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:58 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Kodachrome - the truth
Qualex in NJ no longer exists- it gets forwarded to District
Photo in Beltsville, MD. I believe Dwayne's is the only
North American processor that develops Kodachrome.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Peter K."
Sent: Oct 13, 2005 11:42 AM
To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [rollei_list] Kodachrome - the truth
The biggest issue with Kodachrome is the limited places you
can have it processed. I believe there are two left in the
US. Qualex in NJ and Dwayne's in Kansas.
Putting that aside, the other issue with Kodachrome is that
it cannot accurately reproduce the color purple. Instead any
purple or lanvender coloring blue.
The best display of this was in the late Galen Rowell's book
the Art of Adventure. He shows the same flower photographed
with Kodachrome and again with Velvia. Velvia showed the
flower correctly as being purple. Kodachrome rendered the
flower blue. I tried this myself and it is true.
As Erwin states, no film will yield absolutely faithful
coloring as ones sees in the original, but for me E100 and
Fujicrhome do a better job than Kodachrome.
Peter K
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