Kodachrome scans

I always have sought the holy grail in terms of the perfect photographic camera and process with the ease of use. The highest quality today is probably still the oldest technology ie. large format b/w and colour negatives. I have tried all the main film formats up to 10x8 film and the various types of cameras that accompany them.  With the advent of digital, this had made my choices more difficult.  Many photographers used digital as a way of starting with a clean slate, and for sure, scanning your images is no rewarding task.  However, the process of image making does effect your creativity, and the materials and apparatus is an important part of that process. Anyway, I have so far scanned b/w 35mm and 120 colour film, so I thought I had better tackle my draw of packets of 35mm Kodachrome. Out of all the films available,  the look of Kodachrome was unique. The only way to appreciate its quality is to look at a slide on a light box.  It is a small window into a world of beautiful colour. If all digital photographers could see large format Kodachrome film, I am sure a few would throw away the ease of digital for  the quality of film.  These photographs here do not do the slides justice.  They are quick scans and badly enhanced on the computer, but they do give a slight sense of the possibilities of the now lost process.  I still need to be convinced that the digital  Leica M9 produces a better image and is equally pleasurable to use to the film version Leica MP.  

In a previous blog I had mentioned that the tiger image was influenced by a song.  It was a bit obvious:

'Tiger Feet' by Mud.  My apologies.