Kodachrome Delights
Feb 5, 2013 17:57:07 #
Subject: WWII era photos
When one remembers the film and technology of the 1940 era ,these are truly outstanding photos,
Below is the link to a Russian language web site that features some amazing color photos from the Word War II era. The pictures were shot on 4 X 5 Kodachrome sheet film, which was extremely rare in the early 1940s. There was only one lab in the world where the film could be developed and processed: Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N.Y.
The pictures all exhibit the incredible detail that results when a fine-grain film is used in large format view camera with an ultra-sharp, color corrected lens. Because Kodachrome sheet film was expensive and in very short supply, the photographers spent considerable time lighting and composing each picture. Each of these 70 year old images is a work of art!
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914
When one remembers the film and technology of the 1940 era ,these are truly outstanding photos,
Below is the link to a Russian language web site that features some amazing color photos from the Word War II era. The pictures were shot on 4 X 5 Kodachrome sheet film, which was extremely rare in the early 1940s. There was only one lab in the world where the film could be developed and processed: Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N.Y.
The pictures all exhibit the incredible detail that results when a fine-grain film is used in large format view camera with an ultra-sharp, color corrected lens. Because Kodachrome sheet film was expensive and in very short supply, the photographers spent considerable time lighting and composing each picture. Each of these 70 year old images is a work of art!
http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html?thread=22669914
Feb 5, 2013 18:03:05 #
Look ma! No post-processing!
This has been posted here before, but it's still facsinating to see what has been done and can be done in-camera.
Thanks
This has been posted here before, but it's still facsinating to see what has been done and can be done in-camera.
Thanks
Feb 5, 2013 18:20:21 #
Feb 5, 2013 18:46:39 #
pjarmit wrote:
Subject: WWII era photos br br When one remembers... (show quote)
Now that's what I'm talking about! This is what photography is all about. The lighting is amazing. When I was in the Navy, early 70's, I shot almost exclusively kodachrome slide film asa 25. I loved it, it made great enlargements.
But these are some of the best overall I've seen.
Thanks for sharing.
Feb 5, 2013 18:53:20 #
Feb 5, 2013 19:20:33 #
very cool.
my father worked at McDonnell Douglas aircraft in Long Beach, I was born in Inglewood, and in 1979 i captured my first aerial photograph with an Argus brick 35mm of the Queen Mary.
boy have things changed.
my father worked at McDonnell Douglas aircraft in Long Beach, I was born in Inglewood, and in 1979 i captured my first aerial photograph with an Argus brick 35mm of the Queen Mary.
boy have things changed.
Feb 5, 2013 21:34:19 #
The lighting placement is just fantastic. And I'll bet you didn't hear, click -click-click-click-click-click-click like the fauxtographers do today! :-)
Feb 5, 2013 21:42:55 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Look ma! No post-processing!
This has been posted here before, but it's still facsinating to see what has been done and can be done in-camera.
Thanks
This has been posted here before, but it's still facsinating to see what has been done and can be done in-camera.
Thanks
But a whole lot of preprocessing.
Little if any post processing available, especially with slide film. No latitude, maybe 1/3 stop or your sunk.
Feb 5, 2013 21:43:22 #
Feb 5, 2013 21:47:50 #
Feb 5, 2013 21:54:57 #
My Kodachrome color slides from the 40's have held up as taken. Sadly, not so for the Ektachrome.
Thanks for these fine images.
Thanks for these fine images.
Feb 6, 2013 10:45:18 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
I've seen these pictures many times and still have to go back to them. Wonderful old photography that rivals many of the images of today.
Feb 6, 2013 11:41:34 #
Замечательные фотографии. Потрясающее качество. Я люблю их
Feb 6, 2013 15:09:06 #
CaptainC wrote:
The lighting placement is just fantastic. And I'll bet you didn't hear, click -click-click-click-click-click-click like the fauxtographers do today! :-)
What an interesting study in lighting. A lot of fun figuring out where they placed the light(s) and thinking about why.
Check out the propellers and shadows in the background of #14.
The hand in #21 is kind of spooky.
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