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Dave Cohen wrote:
> Kodachrome is great. For all of the handling and processing considerations
> above, and now I'm afraid to shine light through them. I'm sorry, I
> forgot, what was today's advantage of Kodachrome again?
Hi Dave. The biggest advantage of Kodachrome is its color balance.
Any E-6
process film I will guarantee it will have an oversaturated, and or a warm
color balance. (Might this have something to do with the color couplers being
added to the film rather than being in the film itself?) Kodachrome is the
only reversal film which shows color as it happened. Kodachrome is still the
sharpest reversal film on the market today. Finally, Kodachrome is archival.
I have a ton of Kodachromes from both of my grandfathers that were taken
almost 50 to 60 years ago and still look like they were taken today. If you
continuously project slides for events like lectures and so forth, you want to
copy your stuff on an E-6 film. Kodachrome is meant to be in periods of
prolonged dark storage. The only other reason why your Kodachromes would fade
like that is because they were not fully processed. (There was speculation in
the Kodalux days if Kodalux was cutting corners in the process to save money.)
Now this is not to bash E-6 films. I think they are great for other
applications other than landscape photography, (i.e. fashion, portraiture,
advertising). Also I really wish Kodachrome would be offered again in medium
format, to allow an even sharper image. One of my instructors at Foothill
recently offered me 80 rolls of 120 Kodachrome in his freezer. But I smiled
at him and asked "where am I going to get that processed??" Oh well!
Sam Reeves
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