Due to Kodachrome's special processing requirements E-4 and later E-6 films started replacing it in many applications between 25-30 years ago, an organization I was working for experimented with processing E-6 in house, with Kodachrome it just wasn't feasible. It's been a slow decline for Kodachrome. Once used by everyone who wanted quality and archival stability while E-4 and later E-6 slide film when you needed fast turn around. Now landscape photographers use Velvia and my brain rebels because nature just doesn't look like that.
John Sessoms wrote: > From: > "P. J. Alling" > >> Those look like typical Velvia, or as I like to call it Velveeta, >> (Kraft Corporation's processed "Cheese Food", since it has the same >> relationship to natural color that Velveeta has to natural cheese), to >> me.. I still have a hard time believing that this stuff actually >> displaced Kodachrome as the saturated slide film of choice. Kodachrome >> may have been highly saturated but it still had some relationship to >> the colors of nature. >> > How much of that is because of what Velvia is and how much of it is due > to Kodak making Kodachrome so much less accessible than it used to be. > > You can get Velvia processed almost anywhere in the world. How many labs > process Kodachrome? > > -- Remember, it’s pillage then burn. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
