Leo Anthony Vale Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Admittedly this is about a still film, still it is Kodachrome, which the Church should canonize. From last Saturday's 'All Things Considered' on NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/07/23/128728114/kodachrome Transcript of the above: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=128728114 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Glencairn Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 I miss my beloved Kodakchrome. Still have two 16mm rolls in the fridge - I hope that wonderful material get´s a renaissance one day. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Tuohy Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Is there any wonder kodachrome is going? Here is a quote from the article where he is talking about the pressure he felt on shooting that last roll on kodachrome: "So before he took one of those shots, he used a digital camera to hone in on the perfect exposure. "To have that reinforcement, to be able to see that on a two-dimensional screen ... it was a big help," he says". That explains the end of kodachrome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Charles MacDonald Posted September 13, 2010 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2010 "So before he took one of those shots, he used a digital camera to hone in on the perfect exposure. "To have that reinforcement, to be able to see that on a two-dimensional screen ... it was a big help," he says". That explains the end of kodachrome! Come on now. He had one (special) roll and every shot had to count. Here in Cinematography.com the advice is always to shoot tests, before the final shot. If he was a normal shooter he would have been able to bracket his shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted September 13, 2010 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2010 We need to make Kodachrome "cool" again, like what happened with Polaroid, and how it's supposedly coming back for it's cool factor. I am, mildly curious, if anyone could ever "borrow" the secret sauce from Kodak, licensed or what have you, and make up small batches, or hell, even somehow home-brew it. I recall someone on here before working on an @ home emulsion coating machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Brahem Ziryab Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 (edited) Damn, I need a recipe of that home-brew :) Seriously I still think Kodachrome is a beautiful stock and very original in both dyes and emulsion. WIth K-14 processing becoming less and less available, I'm not blaming people for not using it anymore and ultimately for Kodak to take it off the market. Digital people still pretends that recreating the tones in post, will match the old stocks. Edited September 13, 2010 by Ziryab Ben Brahem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Murray Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 (edited) Digital people still pretends that recreating the tones in post, will match the old stocks. I predict it will never happen. Each is its own separate medium. Besides... Film = Leather Digital = Pleather The ones in the know will always be able to tell the difference. I have a roll of Super 8 Kodachrome. I should get crackin'. I also have a double 8 and not sure what I'm going to do about that. Thought I was getting Super 8 and I have no Double 8 camera. Think it will work in my Bolex? :D Edited September 15, 2010 by Pat Murray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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