Name a film that's cooler than Kodachrome

[Iris]

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1. None. Kodachrome was the best film ever manufactured.

[regnaD kciN]

23. Not for twenty-plus years, it wasn't...

When Fuji brought out Velvia in the mid-'80s, it simply destroyed Kodachrome's market share. Better contrast and color saturation, equal sharpness and freedom from grain, with easier processing.

[jmowreader]

2. Aerochrome III is THE coolest film ever made

It has four layers--one sensitive to red, one to green, one to blue and an infrared-sensitive layer. It produces bizarre, unpredictable effects--green trees can come out either blue, red or white for instance. It's mainly used for aerial photography--it's good for detecting pollution sources, for one thing. It's also good for detecting marijuana plantations--a pot farm will show up as a unique shade of blue.

Unfortunately for you 35mm shooters, they quit making it in that size. All the color IR out there is 9.5 inches wide and is cut down to 120 size in Germany.

[realisticphish]

3. you ever been to Shorpy's?

http://www.shorpy.com/

Some beautiful Kodachrome stuff there, especially from Jack Delano

[Iris]

6. great link. Thanks! n/t

[TrogL]

4. AGFA400

For some reason it was really sensitive to infrared so a picture of a stove made it look like a blast furnace.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Ektachrome

Kodachrome tends toward red/yellow while Ektachrome is notoriously blue.

[Moondog]

7. +1. My friend, you know your chromes.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. I shot a lotta sports at night

You could push E-6 two stops with tolerable grain. Can't push K-14 at all.

OTOH, nothing's as sharp or as dense as Kodachrome 25, and 64's not far behind. Come to think of it, 64 might be even more dense.

[old mark]

8. I love Ektachrome.....K'chrome was too fucking cheery and perky.

Ek is just the greatest - especially if you mutate the color by overheating it for a while before you shoot it.



:smoke:

mark

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Yup

Kodachrome was for nature photographers and the like — and wonderful for them. But us photojournalists needed speed.

[TommyO]

24. Kodachrome also worked for amusement parks

where it's color response really punched up what was already colorful (when it wasn't faded and dilapidated)

[RagAss]

9. "Makes you think all the world's a sunny day...oh yeah"

[old mark]

10. K'chrome reminds me of Ozzie Sweet, the studio photographer who

did all those old Santa Claus/Coke ads with the kids in the snow suits, etc in the 50's and 60's.
All done under hot lights in a studio,all look like Kodachrome to me.


mark

[MissMillie]

11. gives us the nice bright colors, the green of summers

um.... do people actually USE film anymore?

[ghostsofgiants]

15. I just spent $80 on film this week.

:thumbsup:

[no name no slogan]

12. Cool Hand Luke

[ghostsofgiants]

16. +1

[qnr]

17. Kodak Disc film. You could take snaps, and practice your ninja skills with a Kodak ninja star n/t

[pokerfan]

18. Obligatory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhdf9_IO4w

[MajorChode]

19. Any tungsten balanced film would be cooler than Kodachrome

[kentauros]

20. Solar Film

:D

[Kickin_Donkey]

21. Gotta go with Tri-X ...

BW film is way cooler than color, IMO.

Tri-X was the workhorse monochromatic film used by virtually all photojournalists and most artists from its inception during the Korean War (IIRC) until color became standard in newspaper in the 1990s. The formula remained the same, as it couldn't be improved upon.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Wasn't T-Max 400 an 'improved' Tri-X?

I must've shot 10,000 rolls of Tri-X and 5,000 of Plus-X (and a few of Pan-X), and dipped 99 percent of 'em in Acufine. :)



I just remembered Ilford's XP1, a "revolutionary" B&W film that came out around 1980 — you could change ASA in mid-roll. The drawback was, it required C-41 (color neg) processing, which was a PITA for those with darkrooms who until then did only B&W.

[mrbill]

25. panatomic-x

my favorite black & white film