I used Kodak slide film for years until I finally had to go with Fuji. Boy was Kodachrome a great product. I have color slides my Grandparents took from the mid 40’s that are so vibrant in color, you would have thought they were shot yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po
Is there a product that I can use with my scanner to scan slides to a larger scale .jpg? I have heard there may be a scanning adapter but have only seen ones that will scan the slide in it’s original size (too small).
I had taken a few hundred slides to a local developer who gave me a break on the per quantity price and did a fantastic job, but when I showed up the next time with a few hundred more slides, the guy that worked with me the first time was no longer there and his manager wouldn’t budge on the cost.
Gee, come to think of it, I hope the first guy didn’t lose his job on my account... ;-)
Agree. A lifetime worth of our memories are in Kodachrome, not only slides tucked on the top shelves, but in our mind also. I could never accept Velvia on emotional plane. It felt strange, cold and wrong, because my mind was callibrated to Kodachrome. When finally moved to digital I spent an awful lot of time until I managed to tweak my Nikon digital SLR to make pictures in Kodachrome hues.
It is also worth noting that the whole world watched America in Kodachrome - demise of Kodak is an apt metaphor for what ails America today.
One of the all-time great products in American history. It has an archival life of over 100 years, if stored in the dark.
Kodak gave the last roll of Kodachrome to photojournalist Steve McCurry - the man famous for his National Geographic photo of the blue-eyed Afghan girl in the refugee camp.
Dwayne's Photo, in Parsons, Kansas, was the last lab to process Kodachrome. It ran its last roll in December 2010.
When you switched to Fuji, I'll bet you shot Velvia 50 at 40 or 32 for cleaner whites and saturated colors. I never got good skin tones with Fuji.
Kodachrome and the E4 Development kit was a god send to the home developer.