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STM

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Mt. Ranier (14410 feet) taken from the observation deck of the Seattle Space Needle. The atmospheric haze and distance, about 75 miles, from downtown Seattle makes Ranier seem to "float" above the landscape. Taken on a very rare clear winter day in the Pacific Northwest.

F2 Photomic, 55mm f/2.8 AIS Micro Nikkor, Kodachrome 25 and polarizing filter. Man oh man I miss that amazing stuff, digital has NOTHING on it! Incredible sharpness, non-existent grain and super saturated colors. It was pure color perfection.

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D'Grump

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STM, I've been to Seattle 3 times for a total of about 8 days, and I've seen Rainier a grand total of one day! Not that the weather in Seattle was bad, Rainier was just not visible that far away. Nice and light in Seattle, but no Rainier. You got the shot that I wish I had gotten. As for Kodachrome 25...............I shot a lot of that stuff in Vietnam, and LOVED it. It was excellent during the dry bright light seasons, but during the monsoon season I switched to Ektachrome to get the higher ASA during the overcast days. Ektachrome, with it's blue cast, was a good film, but couldn't touch Kodachrome for it's fine grain and nice warm colors. I would go back to shooting film again if they reintroduced Kodachrome !!!! Thanks for posting.
Andy
 

STM

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STM, I've been to Seattle 3 times for a total of about 8 days, and I've seen Rainier a grand total of one day! Not that the weather in Seattle was bad, Rainier was just not visible that far away. Nice and light in Seattle, but no Rainier. You got the shot that I wish I had gotten. As for Kodachrome 25...............I shot a lot of that stuff in Vietnam, and LOVED it. It was excellent during the dry bright light seasons, but during the monsoon season I switched to Ektachrome to get the higher ASA during the overcast days. Ektachrome, with it's blue cast, was a good film, but couldn't touch Kodachrome for it's fine grain and nice warm colors. I would go back to shooting film again if they reintroduced Kodachrome !!!! Thanks for posting.
Andy

The weather in WA is pretty bad, but summers could be very nice, though not on the hot side. I remember if the temps hit 80º people headed for the malls because no one had AC. But fall through spring it just rains all the time. The saying up there was that people in WA don't tan, they rust!

I really do miss the Kodachromes, both 25 and 64. They were super sharp with very tight grain and beautiful saturated colors. You could not process them yourself like you could the E6 Ektachromes, but the inconvenience was worth the results.
 

Clovishound

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Makes you think all the world's a sunny day. I've got a Nikon camera. I love to take photographs. Oh mama don't take my Kodachrome away.

Sorry, a little trip down memory lane. I recently found a couple boxes of my old Kodachrome slides. I haven't had the time to look through them, but am looking forward to it. I might try scanning a few.
 

STM

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What was your workflow from K25->digital? That's a pretty good looking slide scan.

Roscoe

First off I do not mount my slides after processing and when I took the chromes in for processing I asked for them to be cut into strips of 6. They then go into archival plastic sleeve pages. I have a Nikon Super CoolScan 8000 ED with glass carriers. It is old but it still produces amazing scans, as you see here. I scanned this slide at 4800 dpi with 3 passes. It takes about 10 minutes to scan one image but as you can see, it is worth the wait.
 
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