Narrow Band Colors and Their Perception

Most of us love kodachrome colors , everyone explain different but we have common ideas on the strong colors of kodachrome.

I tried to learn the making of kodachrome inks for inkjet with original couplers and developers and Photo Engineer told a interesting idea.
He said narrow band color of cyan dye is the main responsible for kodachrome and he advised me to start building ink with cyan color.

I am an GMDSS operator , ship radio and interested in software defined radios for listen the wide range of communication going on the world.

I found that narrow the band , cheaper the hardware for radios. Cheaper processors , cheaper sound card , cheaper antenna and amp.

I thought do I select the cheap thing with loving the kodachrome colors or are they cheap , less visual training , less knowledge thing.

And I watched the florists from USSR and they had been awarded with world titles and the older man prefers light colors but the new guy prefers the strong dutch style colors and he did not win anything.

And digital people prefers HDR.

I think too much is may be less.

Mustafa Umut Sarac

Istanbul

Mustafa Umut Sarac said:

I thought do I select the cheap thing with loving the kodachrome colors or are they cheap , less visual training , less knowledge thing.

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I think too much is may be less.

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I agree. This applies to detail and color.

As technicians, photographers tend to take great pride in high detail and "natural" tones/colors. (I've even heard certain photographers call Velvia, natural.)

I found this quote on Kodak's Portra web page.

"I love the warm vibrant tones I get with the new PORTRA 400. It renders wonderfully under a variety of lighting conditions both in the studio and in natural light. The grain is also exceptionally fine for a 400 speed film!"
— Ryan Muirhead

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What isn't said in that quote is that one of the reasons that 400 speed film is so nice for weddings is that it renders a bit less detail than the 160.

The bride normally has no interest in remembering blemishes, errant eyelashes, or goofy brush strokes in her makeup.

Reducing details to just what is important is an important concept in photography.

It makes perfect sense to apply that thought to color too.