Macbeth colorchecker filmed on Kodachrome

Andrew Wise · March 11

Does anyone have any footage of a colorchecker shot on Kodachrome?
Preferably on 16 or 8mm film 🙂

happy to pay or do some film scanning as a trade!

thanks in advance

Karim D. Ghantous · March 12

I'm not sure if this will help, but you might try Flickr. You never know what you're going to find on there.

Andrew Wise · March 12

Oh I should probably specify I’m after the physical film itself so I can use it on my film scanner

Karim D. Ghantous · March 13

You might find that some people will lend you their slides. Or, an alternative is to find someone who took the same scene on both digital and Kodachrome, as a comparison. Not exactly as good as a proper chart but it's maybe better than nothing.

Joerg Polzfusz · March 13

Hi!

I seriously doubt that there’s such a thing like this. All the test films that I have ever heard of have been sold as prints (=on print film and not on reversal film stocks like Kodachrome). Even when some amateurs filmed such a chart (e.g. as part of their clapperboard), then the result will be unusable (unknown filtering, unknown light source/„temperature“, unknown camera that might have caused over- or underexposure, …).

Mark Dunn · March 13

I'd say there would have been no reason for anyone to film a colour chart because MP Kodachrome was always intended, and used, for projection. The idea of scanning it, in an era when scanning was an expensive professional preserve, would hardly have arisen.

The only possibility as Karim says might be stills.

Commercial photography stills intended for reproduction would have included a colour chart, but one would expect that to be on sheet film, and that was discontinued in the 1950s.

You can sometimes buy Kodachrome slides reasonably cheaply on ebay. If you choose the scene carefully it might help you.

Edited March 13 by Mark Dunn

Andrew Wise · March 13

Thanks for all the input. I thought it was a very very long shot!
I once scanned someone’s fathers 8mm where he had shot a variety of focus charts from some amateur photography magazine. I made me curious if someone had gone so far to shoot a Color chart. But you’re right, why would they think they needed to!

i did manage to buy an it8 Kodachrome slide on eBay.

John Salim · March 13

I've got a spare 35mm slide frame shot on Kodachrome 64 if that's any use ?

John S 🤩

Joerg Polzfusz · March 13

Yes, filming focus charts was very common, especially when using cameras with C-mount lenses. It served for both testing the camera‘s lenses and later as an aid for setting up the projector.

Karim D. Ghantous · March 21

This is the kind of thing you want to find, in case you can't find what you actually want. This particular comparison was not done on the same day, though, so it's quite useless for your purposes.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4213836