While not absolutely definitive, it seems the probability is truly very high that that was shot on 35mm Kodachrome.
Yes, it was Kodachrome, and it was taken with 105mm f2.5 nikkor. Last year I was in Rome on McCurry exhibition and I saw hose huge prints from 35mm: when you look from distance of 3 meters and more - they look just fine.
Thankyou, Prof_Pixel for the Neil Montanus link.
I've always been fascinated with the Coloramas, but have depended mainly on the Kodak website for examples. Your link is fascinating.
I have seen bigger prints than that made from 35mm from great scanners. Optically it would be difficult but doable. In general when I read something can't be done I usually think the person stating it doesn't know how, so assumes it can't be done, or believes all the crap that is written on the internet.
AYour end enlargement will contain detail from the negative and not a few million pixels which a computer decides to insert which were never in the original to start with. Digital imaging it is but it is not photography.
Here's what Grand central Station looked like with a Colorama picture. I remember a few myself when I went through the Station years ago. Very impressive. Don't recall thinking or noticing grain but you're standing pretty far away.
But just give it a few more years and every esthetic lemming out there will be blindly following some other silly trend, which will probably consist of Minox contact prints next time around!
Dear fastw,
Very often large prints are used where the viewer stands farther away. I doubt seriously that anyone could appreciate a 40"x60" print with their nosed bumping against it. ;>) Further, the loss of detail and print coarseness can actually enhance the image.
My point is simply that there is essentially no limit if the result works for the application.
Neal Wydra
In my furniture schlepping/college days I saw plenty homes in places like Vail, CO where you'd need 60x40 just so the image wouldn't get lost above the fireplace.
s-a
You can also hang an outboard engine on a bathtub and call it a motorboat and if you plug the drain carefully it will probably even work, after a fashion.
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