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Her Mum watering the windows in 1985:
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In addition to still photos, my grandfather also shot home movies, starting with Pathe 9.5mm in the mid 1920s and then Kodak 8mm beginning in the early 1930s.

I had the home movies transferred to DVD a few years back. Here are a couple of frame captures of Kodachrome shot in 1938, before and after the process change that stabilized the dyes. Even without the process enhancement, Kodachrome still holds up better than Ektachrome prior to the E-3 process.
 

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The war was over for W. K. Amonette and this scene was probably repeated a couple million times in 1946. The first Christmas back home:

1946 by John Carter, on Flickr

Sorry about the scan, I did it before I learned a few tricks. By the way, I just received a roll back of Ektachrome 200 (120), and it still has a little of that Kodachrome magic
 
charjohncarter said:
The war was over for W. K. Amonette and this scene was probably repeated a couple million times in 1946. The first Christmas back home:
1946 by John Carter, on Flickr

Sorry about the scan, I did it before I learned a few tricks.
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Scan looks fine. I tried a couple of scans this week with the Plustek and failed miserably. Any tips would be appreciated!:eek:
 
charjohncarter said:
The war was over for W. K. Amonette and this scene was probably repeated a couple million times in 1946. The first Christmas back home:

1946 by John Carter, on Flickr

Sorry about the scan, I did it before I learned a few tricks. By the way, I just received a roll back of Ektachrome 200 (120), and it still has a little of that Kodachrome magic
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That is lovely, in so many ways.
 
dave lackey said:
Scan looks fine. I tried a couple of scans this with the Plustek and failed miserably. Any tips would be appreciated!:eek:
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The thing that makes the biggest difference in getting an accurate Kodachrome scan is sourcing a Kodachrome IT8 target slide and calibrating the scanner to that. Scanning with a standard “transparency” setting will leave the colors coming out a bit “off” because that’s calibrated to deliver optimal results with E-6. Which are not the same.

Would be a shame to turn this thread into a gear oriented thing so that’s all I am going to say about that.

Just thought I would mention that, but I am enjoying everything posted here, regardless of how it was scanned.
 
Moto-Uno said:
Hi Colton , this is the Peace River bridge between Grande Prairie and Fairview , Alta . , where I instructed motorcycle mechanics for a few years . Pretty rugged in the winter during the early 80's when I was there . Coming from Ottawa however it was only about ~5 degrees colder on average .
Took quite a few Kodachromes while there with my Pentax K1000 , it had no problem with the extreme cold .

ps; I live in Burnaby ,B.C now
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I grew up on a farm about 3 hrs drive northwest of Grande Prairie. It was cold in winter there, usually at least 10 degrees colder than Fort St John. We routinely had -45 in winter. Was a beautiful place though and I sometimes miss it, but I sure don't miss the cold winters.

I didn't really start shooting film until 2010 (I shot a few rolls total in 2008 and 2009), so I pretty much missed the Kodachrome era. I did manage to acquire and shoot 4 rolls of PKR in the summer of 2010.

This is one of my favorites from those rolls. Taken with a Pentax SV and Super-Takumar 55/1.8

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