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Kodak KR 135-36 Kodachrome 64 Color Slide Film (ISO-64) Review

51 YEARS OF KODACHROME

"First, for the benefit of those (at least USA residents) who worry about processing: It is very simple, just address the film to a nice little town in Kansas whose address is easy to find. Once there, genuine experts will process it, mount the slides if desired, and return it very quickly. I often send film off late on Monday afternoon; I ALWAYS get it back by Friday or Saturday of the same week and it is always first rate.What do I like about Kodachrome? - everything really. Some people speak of a 3-D quality but I would not have noticed this but it may well be true. I love what some call the "Kodachrome look" - hard to describe but I think I know it when I see it. The greens for instance, particularly greens comingled with earth tones, always beautiful, saturated without the gross vulgarity of some very popular E6 films. I recently used one such pop film and when the slides came back I was appalled by some of them. These, predictably, were pix with large areas of grass and trees (after a week of steady rains, no lawn mower in sight). At first I thought the processer had made a terrible mistake, somebody had spilled the paint, unbelievably bad, gaudy, vulgar but just what some people like; I had almost forgotten. Kodachrome is never like that, never betrays its sense of good taste. But plenty colorful at the same time. A very good example may be scenes with olive trees which seem to be a bit of a challenge to some films, that peculiar shade of green competing with other more brilliant greens, Kodachrome always gets it right.I will try to send 2 pix, one old, one new, both of birds, not olive trees. They are separated in time, almost exactly, by 51 years.The first was shot just before or after Christmas of 1958 on Midway Island. This was made with my first camera (Voigtlander) bought the same day at Midway, no range finder, no light meter of course. The picture,which I think was the first one I made with that camera, is of a black albatross. We had thousands of such birds at Midway, everywhere. Now they have it all to themselves.The second pic was made the day before Christmas of 2008 at a small man-made lake near Dallas, Tx. The subject here is a great blue heron which I seem to see every year. This time the camera did have a meter etc, Nikon F100, lens 70-300 mm VR."

Black albatross, Midway Island Xmas 1958 K25

Great blue heron, Christmas 2008, Texas K64

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