Photography hot takes!

[tcolgate]

Kentmere 400 is actually HP5, but with an inferior AH layer. I feel much better getting that off my chest. Thank you...

You mean the real reason they won't sell us kentmere in sheets is because they already are! and they just like to sit in the pub sniggering about it in a corner!!

 

[thinkbrown]

Kentmere 400 is actually HP5, but with an inferior AH layer.

It's close enough that I don't buy much hp5 anymore....

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Kodachrome is dead, and any talk of reviving it is masturbation to necro-porn.

How do ya really feel Scott?

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

How do ya really feel Scott?

If you REALLY want the Kodachrome look, along with all the challenges (you have to nail the exposure), shoot Ektar 100. It really gives the Kodachrome look, without the vices (can get it processed anywhere, relatively inexpensively, not nearly as environmentally messy, etc).

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Thanks but I'm doing the B&W thing right now.

I wasn't wishing for the impossible I just knew that would wake somebody up. I do miss it though. Had a lot of fun with it.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Thanks but I'm doing the B&W thing right now.

I wasn't wishing for the impossible I just knew that would wake somebody up. I do miss it though. Had a lot of fun with it.

Oh, I know- it was a fantastic film. It's just not viable any more for a whole host of reasons and it does irritate me when I see people wishing for its return but unwilling to pay the price it would take to bring it back. No, you're not going to get $10/roll Kodachrome and you're not going to get it processed with 24 hour turnaround for $5/roll. Multiply those numbers by a factor of 6 and you might be in the ballpark. I'd love to have Polaroid Type 55 back (and in many ways that would be more feasible) but the probable cost for reviving it would be well beyond what I'd be willing to pay.

 

[Klaus Mähring]

Grain is better than pixel.

 

[Don_ih]

Beef is better than grain!

 

[Vaughn]

Spontaneity is that moment of decision to take (make) an image. After that it does not matter has long it takes to take (make) the image. Roll film cameras are not necessarily more spontaneous than an 8x10. Faster, yes, but quickness does not equal spontaneity.

 

[AnselMortensen]

Pineapple on pizza is delicious.
Especially after a long, stressful photo shoot....or a darkroom session when you DON'T use stop bath.

 

[4season]

PKR64 was good, but Fujifilm's Velvia was better.

 

[mshchem]

Pineapple on pizza is delicious.
Especially after a long, stressful photo shoot....or a darkroom session when you DON'T use stop bath.

So you're using pineapple juice instead?

 

[mshchem]

Kodachrome II | Timeline of Historical Colors in Photography and Film

is a comprehensive resource for the investigation of film color technology and aesthetics, analysis and restoration, developed and curated by Barbara Flueckiger since 2012. In 2024 Sylvie Pénichon joined the Timeline as a co-curator for still photography.

filmcolors.org

 

[Taylor K Nankervis]

AA was a mediocre photographer. However, he was a master printer, he could pull a rabbit out of a hat.

I don't agree with either statement.

Owning his three books (all of which have as a disconcerting feature less than high quality printing), his subjects — with the exception of a few studies of Yosemite, were bland and unserviceable. His printing is so over-the-top (Moonrise over Henendez NM is a prime example when compared to the anaemic, insipid but still salvageable original that would have benefited from moderate contrast and tonal adjustment, rather than pushing everything to Halloween extremes).

 

[Taylor K Nankervis]

PKR64 was good, but Fujifilm's Velvia was better.

As an Ilfochrome Classic printer in the commercial/custom sphere when I printed from many films ((transparencies), both Velvia and Kodachrome were recommended and interchangeable to achieve different and improved results, specifically changing the way Velvia renders red and blues, as opposed to the more nuanced approach of Kodachrome that was often recommended as a sub-in (or repeat!) over Velvia (or Provia), especially if printing involved many hues of reds and blues. RVP50 excels in the green spectrum, but fails in the blue.