Waxing Nostalgic - Kodachrome how I never knew you

[LeicaTom]

Here`s another recently acquired vintage Kodachrome slide shot ca. 1964

The girls sunning herself next to a rare and now very desirable 1960 Volkswagen SO23 Westfalia Camping Bus
(note those the red and black tartan plaid seat cushions and all the birch wood trim)
a very kool bus and a very kool photo 😀

Tom

PS: I BUY slides like this and of PinUp Nudes, Old Cars, European Travel anything in that order pre 1970 - anyone have anything like this let me know

 

[martin-f5]

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

hey Keith, this is absolut outstanding good,
please tell more to this photo,
camera, lense and are there more of this serie?
did you scan the neagtiv?

 

[wintersway]

Wow... some outstanding shots in this thread!
5 rolls of K64 on order!

 

[Keith]

hey Keith, this is absolut outstanding good,
please tell more to this photo,
camera, lense and are there more of this serie?
did you scan the neagtiv?

Hi Martin,

In 1992 I went on a month trek in Nepal with my then wife Paula ... high altitude (5500 Meters plus at times) and off the tourist tracks. It was a wonderful if extreme experience.

I knew nothing about photography but bought a second hand Canon AE-1 with a 35-105 zoom from a friend and took ten rolls of kodachrome with me. Between the excellence of the Canon in AE in my inexperienced hands and the keeping qualities of the slides I was able to relive the trip when I scanned them all with a low budget Canon multifunction, scanner copier printer, a short while ago. I have a much better scanner now and the temptation to rescan them all is overpowering ... all 360 of them! 😛

It was a great trip and the thing that will always stay with me is the wonderful Nepalese people ... especially the children ... so beautiful! 🙂

... oh yes ... I meant to tell you about the pic you asked about. I rate it as the best from my trip. She was just sitting there looking slightly anxious with her two children who were looking much the same. They were watching something in the distance when I took the photo and were oblivious to me and my camera. 🙂

 

[martin-f5]

I knew nothing about photography but bought a second hand Canon AE-1 with a 35-105 zoom from a friend and took ten rolls of kodachrome with me. Between the excellence of the Canon in AE in my inexperienced hands and the keeping qualities of the slides I was able to relive the trip when I scanned them all with a low budget Canon multifunction, scanner copier printer, a short while ago. I have a much better scanner now and the temptation to rescan them all is overpowering ... all 360 of them! 😛

It was a great trip and the thing that will always stay with me is the wonderful Nepalese people ... especially the children ... so beautiful! 🙂

... oh yes ... I meant to tell you about the pic you asked about. I rate it as the best from my trip. She was just sitting there looking slightly anxious with her two children who were looking much the same. They were watching something in the distance when I took the photo and were oblivious to me and my camera. 🙂

and again we see the camera doesn't matter,
even the most badest lense can give you great shots.

Keith this photos are realy very splendit,
go on an scan all of these 360 photos,
take the best on an present them in their own webside.

merry christmass

 

[Ron (Netherlands)]

Here is my sister with her new bike in june 1969, taken by my dad. He had little experience with photography and had actually lent a camera for some time. Lateron he switched from Kodachrome to Agfa CT 18 which became very popular in Europe.

 

[Keith]

One thing that amazed me about the Kodachromes that I took in Nepal was it's potential when scanned. A lot of my pics were underexposed due to using the camera in AE all the time and not understanding compensating for bright backlight with a lot of my subjects. The detail in the shadows which I assumed was gone forever came out in post processing and made some pretty grim looking images usable.

 

[paulfitz76]

Wonderful shots to all! Kodachrome is a great film,now I will have to go out and shoot some more. I have a roll that predates me, 1956, still sealed for posterity.

Growing up in Rochester NY and being and RIT Photoscience grad, Kodachrome was a love/hate. I loved to shoot it, but hated the test we had one day where the K-12 process was described with specific gravities of all the solutions, and the dyes mis-added, then we had to calculate what color the cyan poodle would be.

That's the beauty of that process, as long as the exposure is right, and chemistry correct, you can acutally calculate color balances via dye adsorption rates. But don't ask me to do that ever again!

I think the color palette is tuned to the northeast eye. I love the shot of the guy leaning on the car. Seems so real to me that I can almost hear the sound his elbows made on the car fender when he leaned on it.

That's what it's about for me. Brings the whole experience to life.

Post more shots guys! Don't think my cheapie minolta is up to the kodachrome task.

 

[dmr]

Post more shots guys!

Guys? 🙂 🙂

K64, summer 2006.

 

[martin-f5]

I realy seldom use colored films,
so I'm not very familar with shooting slide films.

Some years ago I spend some days off in south france,
exactly in Arles.

You can't imagin who colors can look like.

And now i remind I shoot there one slide film kodakchrom ...😉

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