After a long break from photography I have come back and discovered to my horror that my favourite film, Kodachrome 64 is being phased outSo for all you guys who were Kodachrome users what do you intend to use instead, is there anything that can replace K64?
I'm considering supplanting my realist with a twin rig and I'd be interested to hear about your experiences with your twin rig (i.e. flash sync, how you mount the F3s, etc.).As I process the last of my Fuji Provia slides I am looking at the possibility of putting my twin Nikon F3-HP pair to its final rest.
I have a 100 meter roll of Provia 100 in my non-auto defrost fridge, right next to my hops. But, I'll probably never use that film.
Now, I am picking up a pair of Canon A720 IS running SPM (Stereo Photo Maker) and bemoaning the loss of control I had with my Nikons.
And although I shot reversal film, it still had more latitude than this digital abomination.
Please elaborate. Oh, and looking at negatives on a light table or mounting them and sticking them in a slide projector don't count. I'm talking about viewing positive transparencies. And before you mention getting C41 transparencies on Vision cine print film from Dale's, they don't do it anymore. And the quality was never good to begin with.
If you take a photo of a negative with negative film. The new "negative" must be a positive. I don't know how to do it in the best way with correct lights and techniques. But I think Q.G. may meant something like that.
I have some Ektachromes from 40 years ago that still look good.
If you take a photo of a negative with negative film. The new "negative" must be a positive. I don't know how to do it in the best way with correct lights and techniques. But I think Q.G. may meant something like that.
The negative of a negative is the backbone of the movie industry, but the 2nd film is called a Postive print film because it produces a transparency for projection.
There were once specialist films made for use with normal film camera negative film but they are long gone, but the motion picture versions what you see ta the Cinema
Ian
Please elaborate. Oh, and looking at negatives on a light table or mounting them and sticking them in a slide projector don't count.
Anyway, i guess the gist of it was that though Ektar is not a slide (projectable) film, it is a film alternative that allows producing images that are not equal to, but (as some will have it - i'm not argueing, but i don't think that Ektar is very close to Kodachrome) equally good as images made on Kodachrome.
The way you view the images is different. But remember that most people will have seen most Kodachrome images not as projected slides either, but printed in magazines.
Myself, i don't care much for the projected image. I hate that type of presentation. So for me it's all about the image itself.
But, of course, other people like other things.
[...] So unless you just like the looks or characteristics of negative film better or do your own optical printing, there is no advantage to a C41 film if you want prints.
And that's the thing: negative film has better contrast, handles better because of it too.
So there indeed is an advantage, and i would say the opposite: there is no reason at all to use slide film if you want prints.
I'd like to replace the guys that made the decision to drop Kodachrome from production.
Like Ben many of us in the UK replaced Kodachrome many years ago with Fujichrome, in my case initially 50D &100D. The decision was easy, the films were available in a full variety of formats from 35mm to LF, they gave more consistent colour rendition in the often flat UK light conditions where K64 was awful.
The over-riding decision to cease using Kodachrome completely was the poor processing times, and reliance on postal services which added to the delays. Unlike the US there was no alternative processing service (apart from a very short lived service at a London lab) and so when 50D was released which gave comparable sharpness & grain to K25 but with easier processing which was widely available a high proportion of Kodachrome users switched.
Ian
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