Another experiment: scan of medium-format Kodachrome 64, Lewiston, Maine

[Kodachromeguy]

In the 1980s to 2002, I used Kodachrome 64 in my Rolleiflexes. I mounted the transparencies in cardboard mounts and projected them. Talk about fantastic color and detail. I looked in my box of 6x6 slides and found one frame from Lewiston, Maine, that was still in a sleeve. I scanned it with my Minolta Scan Multi film scanner at 2820 dpi. I do not know if this was from the 3.5 Xenotar or 3.5 Planar camera. The crop shows the amazing detail. You can almost read the sign on the wall.

The SilverFast software has a Kodachrome profile, making it pretty easy. Now the problem is how to scan the frames in the cardboard mounts? They just will not fit in the holder that feeds into the Scan Multi. I could possibly shave a few mm from one side of the cardboard mount, but I prefer not to. And I do not want to unmount the frames.

I have XP2 negatives from inside one of these mill buildings. It has massive beams, dusty floors extending for hundreds of meters, and dusty windows. Urban decay at its best.

 

[mshchem]

As much as everyone makes fun of those of us that long for Kodachrome. It's still the one film I miss the most. I think I shot 2 or 3 rolls with a Mamiya C330. I shot a lot of black and white then. I am shooting 6x6 Fuji Provia F and mounting slides for my Kindermann projector.

 

[BMbikerider]

As good as it is, this transparency shows the one problem I always found with Kodachrome - it has a noticeable blue cast. If it wasn't blue then it was magenta. OK you can correct this using software if the slide is scanned but if you don't have the software or a suitable scanner, or just want to project the images then you are stuck with it. Of course this scan may be the result of a scanner not being correctly set up.

 

[BMbikerider]

This is my variation. The blue has been removed and the overall picture is what I would expect, nay what I want from a slide. I do not accept that the slide is that sharp either, was a tripod used? Or is the lack of apparent sharpness down to the foibles of the scanner?

 

[railwayman3]

I so wish that I'd tried 120 Kodachrome while it was available.