Ai_Print wrote:
I have never used any of the presets, but that might be because I learned about light on the real thing as a kid and shot thousands of rolls of it throughout my life.
Here are some from the last months it was around in 2010-2011 all with Leica and a photo of the very last 50 rolls of it to ever be processed being loaded into the mounting machine in Kansas...I shot that event all on Tri-X processed as slide in DR5.
Wonderful film, wonderful era never to be repeated, glad I was a part of it...
Those first three people images in @Ai_Print's selection of images (the boy coboys, etc.) are what I associate with Kodachrome, and I also associate it with the pages of LIFE magazine. I was never a fan--too overdone and screaming THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH IN COLOR. The skin tones especially I find artificial and objectionable but quite characteristic of the film.
Also, I disliked what often seemed to be hard borders between colors and what I perceived as a blockiness to the colors, a lack of transition. I do like @Fred Miranda's two images of the Maybach, which I think are both beautiful, but for their luminosity and the gracefulness of the light and color rather than for a Kodachrome aesthetic which I don't really see in them. Also, for the same reason, several of @RustyRus's images and the image of Bailey's Garage by @geoff d F .
For me, Kodachrome images work best when there are some strong light sources in the scene that bleed over the colors and soften their edges with light. Then they glow.
Ai_Print wrote:
I have never used any of the presets, but that might be because I learned about light on the real thing as a kid and shot thousands of rolls of it throughout my life.
Here are some from the last months it was around in 2010-2011 all with Leica and a photo of the very last 50 rolls of it to ever be processed being loaded into the mounting machine in Kansas...I shot that event all on Tri-X processed as slide in DR5.
Wonderful film, wonderful era never to be repeated, glad I was a part of it...
Those first three people images in @Ai_Print's selection of images (the boy coboys, etc.) are what I associate with Kodachrome, and I also associate it with the pages of LIFE magazine. I was never a fan--too overdone and screaming THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH IN COLOR. The skin tones especially I find artificial and objectionable but quite characteristic of the film.
Also, I disliked what often seemed to be hard borders between colors and what I perceived as a blockiness to the colors, a lack of transition. I do like @Fred Miranda's two images of the Maybach, which I think are both beautiful, but for their luminosity and the gracefulness of the light and color rather than for a Kodachrome aesthetic which I don't really see in them. Also, for the same reason, several of @RustyRus's images and the image of Bailey's Garage by @geoff d F.
For me, Kodachrome images work best when there are some strong light sources in the scene that bleed over the colors and soften their edges with light. Then they glow.
Ai_Print wrote:
I have never used any of the presets, but that might be because I learned about light on the real thing as a kid and shot thousands of rolls of it throughout my life.
Here are some from the last months it was around in 2010-2011 all with Leica and a photo of the very last 50 rolls of it to ever be processed being loaded into the mounting machine in Kansas...I shot that event all on Tri-X processed as slide in DR5.
Wonderful film, wonderful era never to be repeated, glad I was a part of it...
Those first three people images in @Ai_Print's selection of images (the boy coboys, etc.) are what I associate with Kodachrome, and I also associate it with the pages of LIFE magazine. I was never a fan--too overdone and screaming THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH IN COLOR. The skin tones especially I find artificial and objectionable but quite characteristic of the film.
Also, I disliked what often seemed to be hard borders between colors and what I perceived as a blockiness to the colors, a lack of transition. I do like @Fred Miranda's two images of the Maybach, which I think are both beautiful, but for their luminosity and the gracefulness of the light and color rather than for a Kodachrome aesthetic which I don't really see in them. Also, for the same reason, several of @RustyRus's images and the image of Bailey's Garage by @geoff d F.
For me, Kodachrome images work best when there are some strong light sources in the scene that bleed over the colors and soften their edges with light. Then they glow.
Ai_Print wrote:
I have never used any of the presets, but that might be because I learned about light on the real thing as a kid and shot thousands of rolls of it throughout my life.
Here are some from the last months it was around in 2010-2011 all with Leica and a photo of the very last 50 rolls of it to ever be processed being loaded into the mounting machine in Kansas...I shot that event all on Tri-X processed as slide in DR5.
Wonderful film, wonderful era never to be repeated, glad I was a part of it...
Those first three people images are what I associate with Kodachrome, and I also associate it with the pages of LIFE magazine. I was never a fan--too overdone and screaming THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH IN COLOR. The skin tones especially I find artificial and objectionable but quite characteristic of the film.
Also, I disliked what often seemed to be hard borders between colors and what I perceived as a blockiness to the colors, a lack of transition. I do like Fred's two images of the Maybach, which I think are both beautiful, but for their luminosity and the gracefulness of the light and color rather than for a Kodachrome aesthetic which I don't really see in them. Also, for the same reason, several of RustyRus's images and the image of Bailey's Garage by Geoff D F.
For me, Kodachrome images work best when there are some strong light sources in the scene that bleed over the colors and soften their edges with light. Then they glow.
Mar 02, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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