First Kodachrome Ive shot in 25 years!

[Toffle]

What I remember about kodachrome all those years back was, you had to be fairly accurate with the exposure and get it right for the right subject and it was terrific, get it wrong with the wrong subject well kodachrome just can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Yes, but get it right... and Kodachrome has this amazing luminous quality...

amazing is the word for it.

Cheers,

 

[Ektagraphic]

My Kodachrome shot taken 40 years ago, don't think they make this anymore IIRC it was 25asa:-

Thanks for sharing! That is the beauty of Kodachrome. Kodachrome is more than just a film...

 

[Excalibur2]

Yes, but get it right... and Kodachrome has this amazing luminous quality...

amazing is the word for it.

Cheers,

Indeed, even more so comparing Kodachrome with colour negative film 40 years ago (at that time). But with the "fiddling" using digital cameras in Photoshop and modern colour negative films, it has to be the best Kodachrome shot to be superior. ...... on google I read kodachrome's weakest dye is yellow and it is estimated it could fade 20% in 180 years.

 

[accozzaglia]

What I remember about kodachrome all those years back was, you had to be fairly accurate with the exposure and get it right for the right subject and it was terrific, get it wrong with the wrong subject well kodachrome just can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

It certainly teaches you a lot about making better exposures, that's for sure. Learning is good, no?

 

[Francis in VT]

I remember taking a course in color photography where the instructor stated
it was very simple.
Do not take pictures within 2 Hours of sunrise or sunset.
Always have the Sun at your back.
Exposure was 1/50 sec at f6.3 , this was for ASA 10 Kodachrome.

This was for the first session of the course because with an opening like that
what else did I have to learn?

 

[nickandre]

Well one good thing about Kodachrome in 35mm is that you can at least open your lens up and still get pretty good depth of field. On a sunny day I was shooting at f8 @ 1/250 with the Nikon F3. I wish I would of tried this film in 120 when it still was available so I could compare it directly with my 120 Velvia transparencies. I bet the 4x5 sheet film would take your breath away!

Jamie

Take a visit to Shorpy and look at the 4x5 kodachromes from WWII\

I can mail you a roll of 120 PKR but there's no processing available in this universe. I've been trying though. So far I got one roll of monochrome blue images. We'll see. I'll be trying again in a few weeks.

 

[Ektagraphic]

Do you have scans of any of those images?

 

[Mr.Helberg^^]

hey guys where do you order your kodachrome from?
I would really like to try it out but i'm a little afraid of the cost...I live in Denmark and this film is very hard to get here.

 

[Excalibur2]

It certainly teaches you a lot about making better exposures, that's for sure. Learning is good, no?

Well what worked for me most of the time, was pointing the exposure meter at the back of my sun tanned hand, if not then grass for a reading, which are both roughly Kodak grey.

 

[Excalibur2]

I remember taking a course in color photography where the instructor stated
it was very simple.
Do not take pictures within 2 Hours of sunrise or sunset.
Always have the Sun at your back.
Exposure was 1/50 sec at f6.3 , this was for ASA 10 Kodachrome.

This was for the first session of the course because with an opening like that
what else did I have to learn?

erm wouldn't it be:-

Do take pictures within 2 Hours of sunrise or sunset? Many scenic shots are terrible with the midday sun. Shadows can enhance a shot esp giving shapes to things.

 

[accozzaglia]

I've been trying though. So far I got one roll of monochrome blue images. We'll see. I'll be trying again in a few weeks.

Progress! Hurrah! Would love to see these and every step of your K-14 processing discovery!

 

[Phormula]

hey guys where do you order your kodachrome from?
I would really like to try it out but i'm a little afraid of the cost...I live in Denmark and this film is very hard to get here.

Here in Italy the film itself it is relatively easy to find, i.e. few places have it in stock and big shops get it on demand, the real mess is the development. If they had still one lab here in Europe, I'd be shooting it on a regular basis.

 

[Fredrik Sandstrom]

Here in Italy the film itself it is relatively easy to find, i.e. few places have it in stock and big shops get it on demand, the real mess is the development. If they had still one lab here in Europe, I'd be shooting it on a regular basis.

There's no "mess". From the customer's point of view, nothing has changed. You still mail your film to the lab in Lausanne, just like before. You can pretend they process it there if you like.

 

[Phormula]

You still mail your film to the lab in Lausanne, just like before. You can pretend they process it there if you like.

As far as I know, the lab in Lausanne is closed.

 

[perkeleellinen]

Lausanne is just a forwarding address for the US now. Fredrik is sort of right, nothing has changed in that you post the mailer and get the slides back. But it takes longer now. My old Kodachromes are also in plastic mounts whereas they come in cardboard now.

 

[Fredrik Sandstrom]

But it takes longer now.

Does it? How long did it take before? For me (in Finland) it takes 9-14 days, usually exactly 10.

 

[Ektagraphic]

hey guys where do you order your kodachrome from?
I would really like to try it out but i'm a little afraid of the cost...I live in Denmark and this film is very hard to get here.

If you are okay with buying from the US, get it at Freestyle Photo. You can order from them online at www.Freestylephoto.biz

 

[Excalibur2]

***My old Kodachromes are also in plastic mounts whereas they come in cardboard now.***

..and my Kodachromes slides 40 years ago are mounted in cardboard..oh well a circle.

 

[Anon Ymous]

If you are okay with buying from the US, get it at Freestyle Photo. You can order from them online at www.Freestylephoto.biz

It's not buying from the USA that would make it less than ideal. It's the processing mailer and specifically lack of. Kodachrome sold in europe comes with a processing mailer. Buying from the US and then sending it directly to Dwayne's + paying processing + postage back to you makes it just weird. Better get it from UK...

I feel your pain Mr.Helberg. The last time I heard about kodachrome down here, it cost someone 18 euros!!! A tad too much for a 36exp film...

 

[Ektagraphic]

I forgot about that.....Do you know if your rolls and their boxes look diffrent then the ones from the US?

 

[Anon Ymous]

I forgot about that.....Do you know if your rolls and their boxes look diffrent then the ones from the US?

I don't think so, but can't say for sure. I've *never* seen it in stock at the shops I go. You see, even Astia is a rarity down here...

 

[perkeleellinen]

Does it? How long did it take before? For me (in Finland) it takes 9-14 days, usually exactly 10.

Ah, now you've got me thinking and I'm sure I used to get Kodachrome processed in England. It would have been the late-'90s when I shot it before and I'm fairly sure it was a quick turn around from a London based lab.

 

[A_T]

The UK lab was in Hemel Hempstead I believe.

 

[Phormula]

Ektagraphics, our boxes look this way. Just ignore the dread words "process E6"
http://www.ilfotoamatore.it/Scheda_Avanzata.asp?ID=2088&art=KO019

 

[Ektagraphic]

Thanks for that. That is pretty much what was our boxes looked like a couple of years ago, but they said "Kodak Select Series". This is what we have for boxes: http://memex.naughtons.org/wp-content/Kodachrome_box.jpg
Does anyone overseas have Professional Kodachrome (PKR) like we have over here in America?