Waxing Nostalgic - Kodachrome how I never knew you

[IGMeanwell]

I started a project this weekend

Scanning all my parents old slides and eventually creating albums for their pleasure

I found while the majority of the slides were Agfachrome 64

Their honeymoon, wedding candids, and general slides from their first years married were all Kodachrome 25 (at least I think they are 25, definitely kodachrome)

The sharpness, the dimensional effect, the colors are all just amazing and crisp ... they are scanning well

My father borrowed my Aunts Minolta (he doesn't remember what it was or the lenses he used) and has never been into photography

but these pictures he took at bermuda are just breath taking

It makes me sad though, I recently bought 10 rolls of the bay of some Kodachrome 64 and the first roll has that same magic ... but then I thought tonight this stuff is not going to exist in another few years

Don't get me wrong, I love all my cameras, my Fuji s5 (along with the Nikons I have had) can produce some absolutely amazing images and yet these Kodachrome images are completely unique

Perhaps Kodak would do me a favor and produce a Kodachrome sensor 😉

I'll post some slides, I know Digital Intrigue has graced us with his own slides and I encourage anyone else to post their own

These are from Bermuda 1971

 

[IGMeanwell]

Here are a few more

 

[IGMeanwell]

and the last three for this evening

 

[splitimageview]

Thanks...as you know, also a Kodachrome fan. 🙂

Keep them coming! These are very nice photographs.

 

[amateriat]

A nice little time capsule, well-preserved via a great film. There truly isn't anything like Kodachrome.


- Barrett

 

[literiter]

I never thought I'd see the end of Kodachrome, now it looks like I will. For many years I fed the stuff to various cameras, trying to find (in my mind) the magic camera that would make it all happen. Kodachrome was the test.

The first time I bought the film, it was because of the processing mailer that came with it. I had no idea that I'd get slides back.

Things become precious when they appear hard to get, perhaps this is why I'm sorry to see the stuff go.

I have an Abodia slide cabinet which holds 1500 of my oldest and most favorite personal slides. Almost all are Kodachrome.

 

[Keith]

Taken in the early nineties in Nepal ... Kodachrome 64

 

[splitimageview]

1951, collapsible Nikkor 50/2, Kodachrome (10 most likely.)

 

[splitimageview]

Taken in the early nineties in Nepal ... Kodachrome 64

Natl Geo quality.

 

[IGMeanwell]

I am seriously thinking of making a small investment and buying up a couple of the ebay auctions of K64 left

I really want to make sure if there is a moment comes up that I want to look a certain way, I have that stuff available to me

I think at the moment I have 7 rolls in the fridge

BTW, avoid the 120 Kodachrome that keeps showing up on the bay, I checked with dwaynes and they do not do medium format K14 processing

 

[sepiareverb]

One of those great films we are lucky to still have. I shoot it still, snaps of the kids mostly for our occasional 'slide show'- still one of my finest memories of childhood.

 

[hans voralberg]

What's the turnaround like for Wayne's processing ?

 

[furcafe]

IME, fairly fast in the U.S., around 1 week door-to-door, w/the processing done same day that they received the film. Overseas turnaround would obviously vary depending on shipping method, but I would shoot them an email (http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/) to make sure.

What's the turnaround like for Wayne's processing ?

 

[MartinP]

This sounds like you think K64 is no longer being produced ?? It is still on the Kodak website, at least on the UK version which I just checked.

Surely you don't need to go to Ebay to find the stuff ?

I have three rolls in the fridge (although it probably doesn't need cooling) and am torn between wanting to use it quickly, before the processing stops forever, and waiting for a special reason to shoot it . . .

 

[Sisyphus]

Here are a few of my images from this past summer:
KC 200
M7
35mm 1.4 old school lens

 

[shadowfox]

This must be a slide-film week in the forum 🙂

Thanks for the gorgeous images guys, I just picked up a roll of 135 Kodakchrome 200ASA (I think) and I'll run it through a good lens.

 

[Trius]

K25/OM/Zuiko 100/2.8 (I think)

 

[OldNick]

Here are a couple of scans of Kodachrome slides that were exposed in 1952 and 1953, when Daylight Kodachrome was rated at ASA 10, if I recall correctly. I recently scanned 50 years of slides and negatives, and the Kodachrome held up better than any of the other slide or color negative films that I worked with.

Jim N.

 

[Tuolumne]

This sounds like you think K64 is no longer being produced ?? It is still on the Kodak website, at least on the UK version which I just checked.

Surely you don't need to go to Ebay to find the stuff ?

I have three rolls in the fridge (although it probably doesn't need cooling) and am torn between wanting to use it quickly, before the processing stops forever, and waiting for a special reason to shoot it . . .

B&H keeps it in stock regularly. But it's probably much cheaper on eBay.

/T

 

[warren1960]

Kodachrome has a very keen way of rendering moody, low light scenes. All the E6 films I have ever tried have given me "nice" colors, which is fine unless you are trying to render the scene as you saw it. Kodachrome sees the same way I see.

I think it's worth noting that Kodachrome was conjured up in New York State, and I have always thought that this film renders well the very subtle shades I see in the northeast . . the old leaves on the forest floor, the gray-purple-green of the big hardwood trunks, the slightly blue haze in foliage of mid summer, the pink steel of a winter dusk . . . geez I'm getting poetic here, but I think users of this film get the idea.

My old Minolta A2 was the only digital camera I found that reminded me of Kodachrome 25. The A2 colors were "normal" to my eye, with moderate contrast.