plieber

I just loved the delicate colors produced by old Kodachrome 25, but the real plus was its realistic skin tones. All color film since has looked garish. I certainly agreed with Simon and Garfunkel when they sang, "please don't take our Kodachrome away".

johnr9999 Loc: Carlton, OR

Yeah! Could not agree with you more. Thought 35mm Kodachrome was the best until I shot 4x5 Kodachrome. The best color saturation, shadow detail, etc. I had ever seen.

tkhphotography Loc: Gresham, Or, not Seattle

without a doubt

Roger Hicks Loc: Aquitaine

Actually, I preferred Fuji RF/RFP ISO 50 for a combination of fidelity and saturation. But a lot depends on what you shoot.

Cheers,

R.

rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA

Kodachrome 25 was top of the line for many years. However the old Kodachrome 10 had better colors in my opinion.
ASA 10 didn't leave you with much versatility though, and ASA 25 could present exposure problems too, considering the photo equipment technology of the time.

Bruce with a Canon Loc: Islip

I used 25 and had an image my mother was fond of enlarged to 16 X 20 in 1978, ir hung on her wall til she passed in 93 and now it is on my wall.
Love that slide film.

flyfishxprt

Provia for me. I like the saturated colors.

plieber

I grew up in Indianapolis and in May 1966 I was a gofer for a Sports Illustrated photographer, Robert Huntzinger. All he shot was Kodachrome 64, which was processed by SI's own lab. On the race day he went through one and one-half packs of 36-exposure Kodachrome. There were 20 rolls to a pack, so he went through about 30 rolls or a 1000 shots. Back then I thought if I had taken that many photos at least a couple might have been acceptable to SI. Flash forward to today's high speed DSLR's and a 1000 shots would be a very low number.

Attached are two photos shot by Mr. Huntzinger. The first is the cover. The second shot is one I played a small part. It was supposed to represent the race track from the safety lights' point of view. To get the shot Huntzinger and I climbed the ladder to the safety light perch in Turn One. In preparation for the shot the photographer had cut four 5-inch vertical holes on a piece of black cardboard that measured approximately 2 X 3 feet. Three of the holes were covered by different colored gel - green, yellow and red. The fourth hole was left open. To get the shot I held the sheet up in front of the photographer and he shot through it.

May 1966 SI Cover


May 1966 SI Indy 500 Photo

ole sarg Loc: south florida

I too am a believer. I dug out the old family slides and pics my dad took in the late 40s and throughout the 50s. They were right don't take my Kodachrome away.

Roger Hicks Loc: Aquitaine

Yes, it was great stuff, but how many rolls did YOU PERSONALLY shoot in the decade before it disappeared? By the 1990s the best E6 was about as long-lasting, about as sharp,and infinitely easier to get processed. I used lots of Kodachrome in the 80s but by the 90s processing was a nightmare, so I pretty much stopped. No doubt there were plenty here who used it up to the end, but I'd bet there are plenty more who hadn't used it in the 21st century, or who had shot maybe half a dozen rolls in a decade. If people don't buy it, Kodak won't make it.

Cheers,

R.

alaskanfrog Loc: Alaska

Kodachrome truly was the best color film ever made. Nothing could beat the color saturation or rendering of Kodachrome film. It's too bad it went the way of the dinosaur because photographers who loved it lost a great asset and a great photography friend(as-it-were...). I used Kodachrome film and Ecktachrome slide film and was never disappointed with the results. My dad preferred Ecktachrome Slide Film almost exclusively. In the end, Kodak fazed them out because film isn't able to keep up and has been overshadowed by the digital age. The manufacturing process and the cost of developing the exposed film proved to be the Achilles's Heel for these 2 films and Kodak could not afford to keep making it and so made the hard choice to eliminate them. too bad...

1eyedjack

I mostly used Fujifilm along with there slides, back in the
day. (50 & 60's)

KrazyKyngeKorny

In daylight, it was GREAT. (Tony the tiger). But, I applauded 400 speed, because, at the time, I was publicity for the local Moose Lodge, and, shot a lot of pix at the social functions, I could get good shots under normal fluorescent lighting.

plieber

I agree 25 ASA film speed certainly limited one to bright light conditions. Remember this was back in the day before image stabilized lenses and cameras.

plieber

Who here had the experience where certain projected slides had a 3D effect?