Kodachrome Project

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• sikma0

  I have mixed feelings about Kodachrome. It's odd an film.

  Pro:
  Great soft colors.
  Very consistent.
  Ridiculous archival properties. I've seen 60 year old slides with perfect color. In fact it's a black and white film

  Cons:
  All the films cons can be summed up in its K-14 development process. The process has literally 14 baths which must be with in a half degree of each other. Which is extremely hard to maintain. At one point there was only one lab in North America where you get it processed.

  Also the K14 process is notoriously toxic. Green peace has called Kodak one of the worlds greatest polluters sighting this process in particular.

  The film is also VERY hard to scan. Its B+W base tends to trip scanners making it hard to focus.

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  • interesting facts i didn't know. so i guess going full digital is more green?tkmeister
  • depends. camera manufacturing isn't a environmentally friendly eithersikma

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