Re: Is Kodachrome dead?

I am just 64, and I cried when
Kodachrome ll was discontinued. That was what the Paul Simon song was
about.
Think about it... The polution from that film's developement is giving
us more to photograph with our polution free Digital Cameras, and
chemical free, total control digital printing.
I saw a print the other day that is what photographers have been trying
to do since 1839, Someone combined 80 some odd layers of a scene to give
one image detail in the Extreme Highlights And the Extreme Shadows.
Film is probably going to be here for a while, but I think only Black
and White will last for the next decade. IMHO
I've been a "purist" all my life until I was loaned a digital camera.
A roll of slide film with 36 exposures cost me $15., film and
processing. My digital $750. camera is on exposure # 4800.
Do the math.
I am getting images after a quick trip through PhotoShop that are better
than my 35 mm or 2 1/4 have ever given me.
As I said "IMHO"
~Thom~
examples:
http://www.thom-b-foto.com/

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