For the LOVE of COLOR...Post Yours

[boojum]

I remember reading speculation that Leica designed the M8/M9 sensor to emulate Kodachrome. No idea if that’s true, but your photo has that look for me. Nice one.

John

Thank you for the kind words. Kodak made the sensor. And I am sure they were proud of Kodachrome and would have emulated it. I have heard the same story and in multiple places. So either the myth is wide-spread or is true. I'll opt for the latter. Kodak was a very proud company and while Kodachrome is a little bright, especially compared to Agfachrome, it is the widely accepted color palette.

All that said, I like the photo and its color, too. Note well that the Bertele contributes mightily. It's a great lens, hats off to Skyllaney and Brian Sweeney.

 

[Axel]

 

[JohnWolf]

Thank you for the kind words. Kodak made the sensor. And I am sure they were proud of Kodachrome and would have emulated it. I have heard the same story and in multiple places. So either the myth is wide-spread or is true. I'll opt for the latter. Kodak was a very proud company and while Kodachrome is a little bright, especially compared to Agfachrome, it is the widely accepted color palette.

All that said, I like the photo and its color, too. Note well that the Bertele contributes mightily. It's a great lens, hats off to Skyllaney and Brian Sweeney.

Interesting you mention Agfachrome. Back in the day that was my preferred slide film. I liked the softer, warmer look more.

Today most of my Agfachrome slides have turned green, while all my Kodachromes still look great.

John

 

[boojum]

Interesting you mention Agfachrome. Back in the day that was my preferred slide film. I liked the softer, warmer look more.

Today most of my Agfachrome slides have turned green, while all my Kodachromes still look great.

John

I do not know what to say about your Agfachrome failures. I started using Agfachrome in the early 60's when the lady at the photo stand in the Fontainebleau PX told me that if I photographed a chateau with Kodachrome it would look freshly painted. If I shot it with Agfachrome it would look as it was and she was right. I stuck with it whenever possible. I have not checked the old slides.

And for me it is a moot point. I have no time for film and the work associated.

 

[CMur12]

I shot a lot of Agfachrome CT-18 in 1972 - 73, and probably beyond. Back then you could get a 20-exposure roll of CT-18, with processing, for US $2.98! I just looked at some of them from 1972 and they still look great. I live in a dry climate though.

- Murray

 

[boojum]

I shot a lot of Agfachrome CT-18 in 1972 - 73, and probably beyond. Back then you could get a 20-exposure roll of CT-18, with processing, for US $2.98! I just looked at some of them from 1972 and they still look great. I live in a dry climate though.

- Murray

Costco used to sell it, too, as a Kirkland brand. For all its pluses it did sometimes have a slight orange tinge in skin tones. I still prefer it to Kodachrome. But Kodachrome does have the pop if that is what you want. There is a fellow shooting his M9 at ISP 80. Supersaturated colors.

 

[JohnWolf]

Here's an Agfachrome slide from the late 70s in India. It would have been a different picture in Kodachrome.

When I saw the slides starting to degrade, I sent most favorites for loading to Photo CDs. Remember that technology? Another Kodak product. Thirty years later you can still get conversion utilities to read those discs.


sds02 by John Wolf, on Flickr

 

[Reinvention]

Porta 400, Medium format SLR with 150mm, F/5.6 @ 1/500th, June 2023

 

[Mcary]

M10, Summicron 35mm V2

 

[Retro-Grouch]

Interesting you mention Agfachrome. Back in the day that was my preferred slide film. I liked the softer, warmer look more.

Today most of my Agfachrome slides have turned green, while all my Kodachromes still look great.

John

I have had the same issues. Kodachromes that I have from my student days in the early seventies are still perfect. And though I loved the Agfachrome palette, everything shot on it turned brown, green, or some other color within 15 years. I won't even discuss Anscochrome; I shot a lot of it (Ansco 500) back in the seventies for some projects where I wanted the speed and grain. Again, a beautiful palette, but a mess after 10 years.
Fuji is a different story. I have Fujichrome slides from the early eighties that are still perfect. I remember that at the time it raised some eyebrows if you shot Fujichrome; Kodachrome was the standard, period. I loved the Fuji rendition in soft light. Colors popped, with no blue cast in the shadows. And oh, those greens! But Fuji seems to have gone off the deep end when they developed Velvia. All a matter of taste, of course, but overall Fuji color films have proven very stable over time.

 

[Bill Blackwell]

 

[Derek Leath]

Leica SL with a 90mm Elmarit R to L

L1020544 by Derek Leath, on Flickr

 

[Taipei-metro]

at the McDonald's,

limitd time only

Arcadia, Los Angeles County, USA

Img by Taipei-metro

Panasonic G6,
Panasonic 14mm F2.5 Lens made in Japan

 

[halvmesyr]

 

[Mackinaw]

Canon RP with FD 17mm F4.0 lens.



Jim B.

 

[bitboy]

Some nice cars, LLL 50mm Elcan, Leica MP

 

[Taipei-metro]

TJ Maxx parking Lot,

Pasadena, Los Angeles County, USA

Img by Taipei-metro

Panasonic G6,
Panasonic 14mm F2.5 Lens m i Japan
lower res to fit rFf as Usual

 

[CMur12]

I have had the same issues. Kodachromes that I have from my student days in the early seventies are still perfect. And though I loved the Agfachrome palette, everything shot on it turned brown, green, or some other color within 15 years. I won't even discuss Anscochrome; I shot a lot of it (Ansco 500) back in the seventies for some projects where I wanted the speed and grain. Again, a beautiful palette, but a mess after 10 years.
Fuji is a different story. I have Fujichrome slides from the early eighties that are still perfect. I remember that at the time it raised some eyebrows if you shot Fujichrome; Kodachrome was the standard, period. I loved the Fuji rendition in soft light. Colors popped, with no blue cast in the shadows. And oh, those greens! But Fuji seems to have gone off the deep end when they developed Velvia. All a matter of taste, of course, but overall Fuji color films have proven very stable over time.

I guess I am really fortunate. My Agfachrome CT-18 and my GAF 64 (previously Anscochrome) slides from 1972 all still look great. I really liked the GAF for its rendition of fall colors, especially. My CT-18 slides look pretty punchy to me.

- Murray

 

[Mcary]

M10, Elmarit 21mm

 

[lynnb]

An Agfachrome from the 1960s taken with my Instamatic with flash cube. The transparency has a magenta/purple shift, easily corrected in LR6. Agfachrome was cheaper than Kodachrome and I could get it processed locally within 24hrs.