Mull of Kintyre. Oh, mist rolling in from the sea
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Mull of Kintyre. Oh, mist rolling in from the sea
An historic cabin - home to some of the early settlers here.
Hiker still life. Along the Appalachian Trail, VA.
Under the east side of the San Francisco - Oakland bay bridge,
Why did I post this? Because it was shot 20+ years ago on Kodak Kodachrome 64 and processed yesterday.
If you know anything about Kodachrome, the "processed yesterday" part might be interesting.
I am just getting back into film. This photo was one of the last I shot on film in about the year 2001 and then the roll was lost. I found it yesterday. That little girl in the frame is now in grad school.
Kodachrome is a very old color slide film, invented in the 1930s, and is arguably the best color film of any kind ever made. But it was complex to manufacture and complex to process. It was discontinued in the 00s.
There are no commercial labs that can process Kodachrome, and the chemicals are no longer made or sold. We are left on our own. Kodachrome was a unique construction that used multiple layers of filters and conventional B&W silver halide sandwiched between the filter layers. If you process this unique kind of film as if it were black and while film, you process the silver layers but lose all the color information. I guessed and tried an experiment with a non-solvent B&W developer, guessing that maybe there must be some dye in the film and that maybe it would not be washed out by very diluted Kodak Xtol. I expected a monochrome negative, but some color seems to have been retained.
This is a direct scan of the negative (yes, "negative". The color slide film comes out as a negative with this process) with no edits to the color other than to tell SilverFast that it was looking at a color negative and let it process accordingly
I am still getting set up to process and scan film, so I have not yet bought a real license for Silverfast, hence the watermarks.
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Thanks so cool. Kodachrome was my favorite film back in its day. I had the opportunity to visit a Kodachrome lab years ago and the process was very complex. If I remember correctly during processing the film was exposed to 2 or 3 light sources during different stages of development. It also required a cine type processor and a chemist on staff to monitor the chemical solutions. Congratulations on getting a image.
Shoved out of the window. Nikon Z50ii + Nikon Z DX 50-250mm zoom.
I spotted my first Brown-headed Cowbird right in my Livonia backyard, making it an unexpectedly convenient sighting. The bird was perched in a tree that holds deep emotional significance - it's the same tree my mother, who later passed away from Alzheimer's, would spend time gazing at from our family room. We had planted it about seven years before, and it became a focal point of her daily routine.
A bit of melancholic evening sea with slight defocus
This is a long exposure effort taken at Port Willunga with the remains of the old jetty.
Sky Tower. Auckland, New Zealand. September, 2018.