Kodachrome medium format from the 40's

[Major Nikon]

http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/303194.html

[ohiosmith]

1. Incredible! Thank you.

[Major Nikon]

2. There's more here...

http://www.shorpy.com/image/tid/179

[Suich]

3. Those are amazing!

Hard to believe they're from the 40's!

[Major Nikon]

4. The negatives are 4 inches by 5 inches

So the amount of resolution contained in the negatives is incredible. Kodachrome was an archival emulsion which means the colors stay true for decades if not hundreds of years.

[snagglepuss]

5. Wow Thanks for posting. K & R

[Gabi Hayes]

6. Ну и спасибо!

[steve2470]

7. the best still photos from the 1940's I've ever seen, thank you so much ! nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. thanks for the link. gorgeous stuff.

[progressoid]

9. Technically 4x5 is large format.

But those are still some beautiful transparencies. When Kodachrome was done right, it was great.

[Major Nikon]

10. I didn't know that

I was thinking large format was the next size up from 4x5.

[progressoid]

12. Well, there's large format...

And then there's ULTRA LARGE format.

[Major Nikon]

13. Then there's this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10362248

[cliffordu]

11. THE VERY BEST PHOTOGRAPHIC POSITIVE FILM EVER MADE.

YOUR MONITOR, NO MATTER HOW GOOD IS ONLY GIVING YOU ABOUT, shit, I dunno,

maybe 85% of what is actually there....

If you've ever seen a contact print of one of these, you'd know what I mean.

You can blow these up to wall size and be really happy with the result.

I shot a bunch of this - just 35mm and some 2 and a quarter square back in the day and I gotta say, if you had the exposure right, the result was absolutely breathtaking.

made me feel like a big time photographer.....

[Major Nikon]

14. I've seen some really big prints made from medium format that really blew me away

They were much better than anything you can do with an APS-C sized sensor.

[cliffordu]

15. That's exactly right.

And they will be for some time to come.

[Scuba]

16. Terrific, thanks. I've got a crush on Rosie the Riveter.

[Orrex]

17. Wow

Incredible clarity. The company that produced that film should last forever!



Seriously--amazing images. If I'd seen them without attribution I'd have assumed that they were modern stagings of 1940s scenes.


And what about that woman holding two handfuls of metal shavings! Yikes!

[Demonaut]

18. "Don't Take My KodaChrome Away"...................it's gonnnne

[Auggie]

19. Awesome. Thanks for posting.

[lunatica]

20. Fantastic!

thanks for posting that link!

[we can do it]

21. WOW! My Grandpa's Lunchbox Is In #37

I have it in my room, still in perfect shape -

These are beautiful photos, thank you.

[amerikat]

22. Bookmarked. Thanks for posting. I want to look this over when I'm not so tired.

But the few I saw were excellent. I loved Kodachrome.
Nothing else had that kind of color saturation. Shot some
Ektachrome once in a while but always came back to Kodachrome.