Kodachrome 64, Pentax MX, various lenses

womble · Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 987 Location: Hertfordshire

Here are four images from a roll which arrived this morning. All taken using my MX.

Benches, Riverside Park, New York. (SMC K 24mm lens)

Grant's Tomb, NYC (SMC K 15mm lens)

Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, NYC (SMC-A 28mm lens, polariser)

Rosehips in my garden. Not sure about the lens, M series 50 or 100mm.

Best wishes, Kris.

Laurence · Expire: 2016-06-19

As usual, K64 shows its signature color tones! Awesome, especially
Grant's Tomb and the last image!

cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas

*sigh*

RIP Kodacrome

Scheimpflug · Expire: 2011-11-18

Nesster · Expire: 2014-02-20

beauty.

cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

So good to see Kodachrome!
I love the colours in the last image.

peterqd · Expire: 2014-01-04

I felt just the same when they ended production of Kodachrome II. I never liked K64 anywhere near as much.

gth · Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 6

How did you expose your KC?

I've heard you should push it by exposing at 80-100 ASA and developing at 64.

cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas

Well there's only one place left on Earth -- Dwaynes -- that develops Kodachrome, so you'd have to ask them how they develop it, but I suspect they develop it "by the book."

As for exposure, back in the day when I was shooting several rolls of Kodachrome per week, I always shot my K64 at EI 80. I had read in a couple different publications back then that doing so improved color saturation. And since it also boosted the ISO slightly, to me that was also a good thing, so I always exposed at EI 80. As for results, I certainly had no complaints. As long as I made no mistakes in exposure I always had slides with well-saturated colors.