Big Daddy Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 (edited) These are of outstanding quality and have some great technical reference merit as well for us modellers. "This is a rare and fabulous series of pictures shot on Kodachrome sheet film (4x5 inches) and is of exceptional quality shot in 1942. It also captures a slice of life we will never see again...when an entire country was behind a war effort. I also had no idea that Kodachrome was ever available in any size other than 35mm film due to the complex processing process it required. It makes this series all the more significant. Note that all the images are still-lifes where no motion was taking place due to the very slow speed of the film at that time. What made K-chrome so good was that the film itself had no color dyes embedded in it; the dyes (yellow, magenta & cyan) were added during film processing making for an exceptional fine grain film. I never knew that Kodachrome was once available in 4" x 5" format, but Wikepedia did confirm this. WONDERFUL photos! These were scanned from 4x5 Kodachrome" Wartime photos Edited June 22, 2012 by Big Daddy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clave Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 So very nice - each one is worthy of being called a work of art. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I agree with Bill..Very art worthy indeed. I LIKED them ... Thanks Big Daddy for posting and sharing them ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
breadneck Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 This awesome post deserves a real..BUMP! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 This awesome post deserves a real..BUMP! :clap2: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Fantastic photos ... It's seeing the past in Hi Def ... Thanks for the link ... -Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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