Kodachrome Look - /p/ (#4445769)

Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:47:09 AM No.4445769
koda (19)
koda (19)
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Been digging around online trying to figure out how to get that K64 look (big, punchy, saturated, picrel), but found basically nothing. Everyone either goes for K25 or just completely misses the saturation.

Not trying to do a perfect emulation or anything, I just want those insane saturated skin tones and deep blues, but every time I try, the edit falls apart. Feels like Lr/Ps just canโ€™t push it far enough, like the digital files donโ€™t have the room. Which makes no sense, since Iโ€™ve got a gallery full of scanned film that pulls it off.

Anyone here actually manage to get close? Or is it just a lost cause with digital?

Anyway, dumping a few Shorpy rips.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:48:36 AM No.4445771
koda (7)
koda (7)
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:49:39 AM No.4445772
koda (48)
koda (48)
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:51:56 AM No.4445773
koda (121)
koda (121)
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:53:34 AM No.4445774
koda (14)
koda (14)
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:55:19 AM No.4445775
koda (98)
koda (98)
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:56:57 AM No.4445776
koda (73)
koda (73)
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:57:59 AM No.4445777
koda (17)
koda (17)
md5: 6c9a544cea59d4ac120027cf4bc6a4f4๐Ÿ”
Etc etc.
You get the gist haha.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 12:13:02 PM No.4445790
>>4445769 (OP)
There is a Youtube video from Grainydays about Kodachrome

My 2 cents is that Kodachrome is kind of fetishized but actually there is no je ne sais quoi to it. The "Kodachrome look" is just pulling down greens in saturation, pulling down blues in brightness and pushing up reds in brightness and saturation.

Don't overthink it.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 12:17:39 PM No.4445791
>>4445769 (OP)
You want it to be grainy yellow hued and have bad colors?
why
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 1:18:38 PM No.4445800
koda (72)
koda (72)
md5: ea11e4dad43cd3a6bd500b60cc8bd9e6๐Ÿ”
>>4445790
>There is a Youtube video from Grainydays about Kodachrome
Which one? Youtube search only returns his Aerochrome stuff.
>>4445790
>My 2 cents...
It might be fetishized, but - have you ever seen a digital shot that just jumps at you with this sort of subtle yet in your face saturation? A lot of the shots Iโ€™ve posted are large format, often under controlled lighting or with flash, so there's naturally a different sort of contrast compared to what you'd get from 35mm. Still, once you start pushing blues and reds in digital, it falls apart fast. Long before you even get close to that "Kodachrome wall," transitions between sky and foliage, or skin and background, just turn to mush.

>>4445791
Nostalgia? I don't know. I like it.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 1:27:19 PM No.4445801
Doesn't look much different from ektachrome tbqh
Buy some ektachrome
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 1:34:04 PM No.4445803
>>4445801
Ektachrome, even with a warming filter, doesn't really have same blues/greens/skin tones. Also I am not going back to film.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:21:09 PM No.4445810
>>4445769 (OP)
git gud retard. this isn't difficult.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:26:40 PM No.4445811
The easy way is shooting foveon :^)
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:26:59 PM No.4445812
koda (64)
koda (64)
md5: 12fcbc214df8719b5fc633100444e48a๐Ÿ”
>>4445810
Show me then. Side by side raw/edited. Your choice of original file.
I spent enough time experimenting to know that I have gotten closer than all the tutorials online, or the fuji recipes, but my edits still look far from the files posted here.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 2:31:23 PM No.4445815
koda (33)
koda (33)
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>>4445811
Unironically not a bad idea. But there should be a way to at least get close to the look with a conventional cmos sensor raw file...
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:50:38 PM No.4445873
kodachrome
kodachrome
md5: e46e42b3a20c6914788d7577b3b1393a๐Ÿ”
First is C1 film standard / C1 defaults, rest are from one of the "kodachrome" preset packs I have
Let you all be the judge
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:55:25 PM No.4445875
koda (61)
koda (61)
md5: e501ddb0241023094574e4af4d539010๐Ÿ”
>>4445873
Honestly not the best picture to showcase color grading. Also, there's almost no difference between them...
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:57:20 PM No.4445876
>>4445875
>Also, there's almost no difference between them...
Only if you have poor vision
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:01:27 PM No.4445879
theyre-the-same-picture-3
theyre-the-same-picture-3
md5: 0b4716b1545084c50efaff249aa03424๐Ÿ”
>>4445873
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:10:14 PM No.4445886
kodachrome2
kodachrome2
md5: 39d17ae21fbed01db5a2761292ba2c1e๐Ÿ”
>>4445879
You guys are blind af
>>4445875
The more I look at this, the more this honestly reminds me of X-Trans3 colors, everything so orange and green
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:22:17 PM No.4445896
>>4445873
>>4445886
We're not blind. The differences are so minor that it's barely possible to tell in this form.
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cANON
7/10/2025, 5:25:50 PM No.4445898
>>4445769 (OP)
Small secret, in all likelihood those pix have already been edited analogically
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:31:32 PM No.4445904
>>4445896
>barely possible to tell
Again, poor vision
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:49:43 PM No.4445913
>>4445800
>have you ever seen a digital shot that just jumps at you with this sort of subtle yet in your face saturation?

Kodachrome slides are certainly neat but itโ€™s a slide film with like 8 stops of dynamic range, there is zero reason it canโ€™t be replicated digitally. There is nothing itโ€™s doing that is beyond the modern technology. If it can be scanned and displayed digitally, it for sure can be captured and developed entirely digitally too.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:54:14 PM No.4445917
Kodachrome is lost. It's impossible to emulate. Every emulation looks off in some way. 25 or 64, doesn't matter. I've looked at tons of kodachrome shots, good and bad, and tons of emulations or tutorials or whatever online and it's at best a vague semblence.

>>4445913
>If it can be scanned and displayed digitally, it for sure can be captured and developed entirely digitally too.
God I wish this were true.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:03:28 PM No.4445921
>>4445917
The reason the digital emulations look bad is because most film emulations in the photography world are absolute dogshit. They are just throwing s-curves on Adobe Standard Lightroom profiles and calling it film.

All of the actual color scientists and geniuses are now in the video domain which is why you have things like Filmbox and Dehancer for video which replicate Vision3 to an actually indiscernible. Youโ€™d have to get those guys to try and replicate it, not some guy selling Lightroom presets on a squarespace site.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:08:48 PM No.4445924
>>4445921
And part of the reason itโ€™s hard is those guys basically shoot 1 trillion test charts to get to that point, but we obviously canโ€™t do that with Kodachrome. But Kodachrome isnt magic, if our cheap devices can display it, it can be captured and edited digitally.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:58:46 PM No.4445950
koda1
koda1
md5: 851dfec64cbae140e9607b7455abd940๐Ÿ”
>>4445921
yeah, dehancer has a decent K64 "experimental" lut, with some pre work in Lr and post work in Ps you can get something that is serviceable = not saying it looks anything like ops pictures but at least theres a difference lol
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:08:46 PM No.4445953
>>4445950
that looks like absolute shite mate
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:11:34 PM No.4445957
>>4445953
cheers, elaborate
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 11:12:44 PM No.4446066
>>4445953
Your not wrong it does look like shit but in that same charming way as kodachrome 64 look.

I would say mission accomplished. It's not exact but it's enough that it reminds me of kodachrome.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:20:41 AM No.4446221
koda (122)
koda (122)
md5: a57453f68c1892fc98968db2eb1c0495๐Ÿ”
>>4445950
That's not that bad. If you got rid of the midtone orange haze, I'd say it's almost there - color wise. The pop is probably a large format thing... How does it look on other pictures?
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 1:38:13 PM No.4446272
>>4446221
Don't forget the lens quality is a factor too.
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cANON !!oKsYTZ4HHVE
7/11/2025, 1:54:30 PM No.4446276
>>4446272
An insignificant one in this case.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:50:30 PM No.4446342
gfx-koda
gfx-koda
md5: 23223204eb77c1041be981bb5bf1b667๐Ÿ”
>>4446221
you be the judge. heres some random gfx files from dpreview, classic chrome on the left, koda process on the right (with less orange tint)
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:51:10 PM No.4446343
>>4446342
These all look the same to me
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:52:32 PM No.4446344
>>4446343
haha youre so funny anon
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:31:46 PM No.4446361
>>4446342
Keep an eye on this dpreview contributor, I have a feeling we'd recognize his dog
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:34:32 PM No.4446363
>>4445950
>>4446342
I finally understand why the people here say sony looks like shrek. Because in their minds the yellow washed out blurry look is "reality" so when pictures have accurate colors everyone looks like shrek to their diseased schizo brains.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:41:43 PM No.4446369
>>4446363
what the fuck are you talking about you schizo
there is nothing real about kodachrome anymore. sony still looks like shit though
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:48:57 PM No.4446374
>>4446342
looks more like gold 200 lmao
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:55:03 PM No.4446379
>>4446374
this film emulation thing is funny, you move one slider and youve got a different film stock on your hands lol
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:19:11 PM No.4446393
>>4446344
I'm not blind. The differences are so minor that it's barely possible to tell in this form.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:21:42 PM No.4446396
apu
apu
md5: ce90004eda399f49f943f8b6c7baef51๐Ÿ”
>>4446393
>The differences are so minor
>completely different color grading, added noise, blurry as shit on the right
you are legally blind or just plain subtarded
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:23:38 PM No.4446397
>>4446396
Honestly not the best picture to showcase color grading.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:54:52 PM No.4446409
>>4446397
bruh what even is your point
are you triggered that we didnt say your dog is nice or what
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:57:54 PM No.4446410
>>4446409
My point is the photos look the same
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:59:02 PM No.4446411
>>4446410
if that really is your point, then you are actually color blind and need to get your fucking eyes checked
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:06:06 PM No.4446413
>>4445950
Way to much red/orange instead of yellow/gold.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:16:58 PM No.4446417
>>4446411
seems like a lot of us here need that
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:27:07 PM No.4446419
>>4446343
Calibrate your screen, anon.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:52:00 PM No.4446442
there is a grainydays video where he emulates infrared aerochrome by shooting pictures with full spectrum digital camera, then displays them with an ipad and shoots it with ektachrome.

you could probably emulate kodachrome pretty close doing the same thing if you tinkered around with developing the digital files.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:56:59 PM No.4446444
>>4446442
How would that help though? The issue isn't getting infrared reds on film, the issue is digital files not having enough (apparent) leeway to edit in a way that resembles kodachrome.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:18:25 PM No.4446447
>>4446444
im no color scientist, but im guessing that if the "look" of kodachrome can be meaningfully transferred through our 8 bit srgb displays, I dont see how those colors couldnt be replicated with cameras capturing 14 bit colors with 15 stops of dynamic range.

for example, go look at the last roll of kodachrome ever developed by steve mccurry. those pictures are great, but to me there isnt really any color magic happening, they could essentially have been entirely digital to my eyes, probably because he shot pictures that were well within the exposure latitude of the stock, unlike some of these pictures ITT in which really push the latitude to its limits while still being pleasant. Im sure once those pictures were digitized they were also manipulated further, as well as some of the ones in this thread.

color is a constant moving target. from the moment the picture was taken to the time it was displayed, the information captured was transferred through countless processes each with a million different factors especially with analog relying so much on film storage, chemical development temps, etc. i think it also helps that these are just well exposed photos with good lighting. you can search countless online repositories of scanned kodachrome slides online and most of the are worthless blown out snapshits.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:36:56 PM No.4448200
>>4445886
>green grass
>blue sky
>brown and white corgi
you retards genuinely argue about the most asinine shit
pick one and take fucking photos
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:38:42 PM No.4448201
>>4448200
Are you color blind? Bottom left looks good the rest look like someone smeared that dog's feces on the lens.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:58:04 PM No.4448204
4555e9ca6322ff3d96a656a6ea8dcae31c4889d4a6988d11d7b0193f13662c5a
>>4445886
>>4445873
>2 photos
>35 edits
>not one of them looks even close to kodachrome
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:59:13 PM No.4448206
>>4448204
why do you expect zoophile dog owners to take good pics be realistic
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:01:17 PM No.4448209
>>4448200
>you retards genuinely argue about the most asinine shit
trvke.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:01:41 PM No.4448210
>>4448204
Never said they looked like Kodachrome, just that they were from some common Kodachrome presets
Sorry for providing an example and trying to contribute to the board
I should just only ever complain and never post photos like you do
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:04:29 PM No.4448211
>>4448210
Since you can't read, the point of my post is that is funny and joyous to laugh at you for wasting so much time and achieving so little.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:06:13 PM No.4448212
>>4448211
How much time do you think I waste making a collage like that?
The point of your post is that you don't have anything meaningful to contribute to the board so all you can do is whine and complain
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:07:06 PM No.4448214
>>4448206
I fact checked this because it sounds impossible and found out apparently corgis are four-six inches
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:08:21 PM No.4448215
>>4448212
>here's a collage of 35 of the same photo
>boo hoo your not aloud to make fun of me for posting objectively hilarious autism content
I throw peanuts at niggas like you
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:12:28 PM No.4448219
>>4448215
Did you forget to attach your own example again?
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:17:26 PM No.4448224
dumbass
dumbass
md5: 1e29b40a49b375860de7ff301d53e3fd๐Ÿ”
>>4448219
shit man you're right here's what it would look like
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:18:56 PM No.4448226
>>4448224
That doesn't look very Kodachrome to me
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:20:05 PM No.4448227
>>4448226
that's because I used a lightroom preset
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:21:25 PM No.4448229
>>4448227
You should find a better one then
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:24:56 PM No.4448233
>>4448224
This was shot on an mfdb i can tell by the tonality. And all i did was look up dog weiner last. Is this the secret of gear? Is this how you activate the primary tonality cortex? Dog dicks? I couldnt see it before but after looking up how big a corgiโ€™s weiner was I can. Now Iโ€™m looking at doghairs posts i can spot the sinar every time. Holy shit.

I wonder if this has implications for annie leibovitzes career
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:26:40 PM No.4448234
>>4448233
What a good and useful contribution to the thread

Maybe one day you'll get a camera and can join with the rest of us in actually taking pictures
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:26:52 PM No.4448236
>>4448224
you know it's an ancient stock photo when they're using a single bare-diffused light
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:27:53 PM No.4448240
>>4448234
Ong that one was someone else
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:29:36 PM No.4448243
>>4448233
No wonder all the gearfags just take pictures of their dog
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:10:13 PM No.4448284
cock monster
cock monster
md5: dfd69980c32dd0e5e97729e2a3924d8e๐Ÿ”
>>4448214
>Whenever I see a larger than average corgi there is a real chance I have been dickmogged
what the fuck
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:12:00 PM No.4448286
nd1vdikvz2s51
nd1vdikvz2s51
md5: bab36f95ae97edff49434d9c3fa3b883๐Ÿ”
>>4448284
They max out at 6 inches anon, if you're less than 7 inches you're far below average for a white male
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:25:42 PM No.4448288
>>4448233
Bro, now that you mention dog dicks, I can see the tonality too. What the fuck?
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 9:12:53 PM No.4448355
fuck
fuck
md5: 08528f3aeb212e2af03e59a8396ebb1e๐Ÿ”
>>4445950
>>4446342
i have been experimenting with the look for so long i completely lost the plot by now

>>4446447
youve got the same theory i had, but...
lets say you have some foliage and sky behind it, you take a shot with some dof... so now you have a yellow/green/azure/blue transiton - theres no way you can push the greens to one side of the spectrum and the blues towards the kodachrome-like deep blue-purple without completely fucking up the transition.
youre pushing the tones in different "directions" and... well thats above me, i try to mask it with copious amounts of grain but theres things where it just wont work.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 10:39:18 PM No.4448364
>digicucks seething at film
lmaoing @ lives
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 10:44:05 PM No.4448365
>>4448364
yeah well its not like i can shoot kodachrome anyway so
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 10:58:19 PM No.4448366
>thread filled with analog photos taken in full sunlight
>somehow shadows on people are not harsh
either manipulated or were carefully shot,
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 11:16:17 PM No.4448369
>>4448366
Film has a non-linear response because shadow sliders didn't exist and this is related to why people call older cameras like the d200 and 5d "filmic". They also had a less linear response baked into the raws.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 11:24:19 PM No.4448371
>>4448355
These look the same
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 11:28:13 PM No.4448372
How about stop living in the past
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 11:32:35 PM No.4448373
>>4448371
funny man haha
Anonymous
7/17/2025, 2:12:57 AM No.4448399
>>4445913
>>4446444
>>4446447
>If it can be scanned and displayed digitally, it for sure can be captured and developed entirely digitally too.
>digital files not having enough (apparent) leeway to edit in a way that resembles kodachrome
>if the "look" of kodachrome can be meaningfully transferred through our 8 bit srgb displays, I dont see how those colors couldnt be replicated with cameras capturing 14 bit colors with 15 stops of dynamic range
this reasoning doesn't work because the spectral response of the film filter layers, film dyes, and bayer filters are all different
ideally the film filter layers and dyes would be exactly complementary to each other but that's just not chemically possible (with current knowledge)
the mismatch in spectral bands is what gives different color films different characters
digital camera bayer filters don't have to match anything else, but they also use different materials than film filter & dye layers so the spectral curves will be different
on top of this human eyes don't neatly break the visible spectrum into RGB channels, so we may perceive a color where only one or neither format will be able to capture it, or will capture it but in different ways
that all said though with a bit of care and color science you'll probably never notice a difference just by looking at the results (image/signal processing might but we're not talking science/astrophotography here)
for example, the
>>4448355
the problem is you're trying to do this just with sliders, but you really need an actual 3D table LUT which essentially makes each output color a function of all three original channels
you'd typically make it via >>4445924
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Anonymous
7/17/2025, 2:18:02 AM No.4448400
>>4445924
>Kodachrome isnt magic,
literally it is.
Anonymous
7/17/2025, 8:56:29 AM No.4448493
>>4448399
Based colour science anon explaining it to the rest of the plebs
Anonymous
7/17/2025, 9:05:39 AM No.4448495
koda (79)
koda (79)
md5: 5eff2b448b7c4f227f47369093658ffe๐Ÿ”
>>4448366
>https://www.shorpy.com/Large_Format_Kodachromes
A lot of them are 4x5s and I guess that those were shot under very controlled circumstances. But even the more casual ones look great.
Anonymous
7/17/2025, 9:47:58 AM No.4448497
>>4448399
there was very little slider action in these two >>4448355 they are basically straight out of dehancer. and dehancer uses their own sort of 3d luts, so i should have been all set?
Anonymous
7/17/2025, 11:04:16 AM No.4448500
First of all, these samples are not of Kodachrome 64, which is the most modern version of the film.

Second, no scan or simulation can match the look of any generation of it.
Replies: >>4449031
Anonymous
7/17/2025, 11:45:24 AM No.4448503
>>4448399
Explain spectral bands and spectral curves for the folks at home.
Replies: >>4450007
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 3:10:24 PM No.4449028
Ktest
Ktest
md5: 8bb1d7e6fda31c43f56e83e874012f22๐Ÿ”
>Second, no scan or simulation can match the look of any generation of it.
i will spend endless night trying anyway.
send me your raw files, i need more shots to experiment on and i am bored of dpreview samples
also anyone wants to join in on the fun?
Replies: >>4449031 >>4449088 >>4449117
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 3:13:35 PM No.4449031
grain
grain
md5: 3376f3662a2f715bc4bc0217ccc875e9๐Ÿ”
>>4449028
>>4448500
meant to quote you here.
anyway, heres a 1:1 crop, what do you think about the grain?
Replies: >>4449088
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 3:40:39 PM No.4449037
K2
K2
md5: ac828ebd6b9cc0d1df83d29c18088e3d๐Ÿ”
Replies: >>4449088 >>4449117
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 4:06:31 PM No.4449053
kodak
kodak
md5: e5096beb40d7d0e3445ba424352d299c๐Ÿ”
>>4445769 (OP)
Remember this as a filter from Nik Color Efex Pro, seems to be in DxO FilmPack now.
https://www.dxo.com/dxo-filmpack/features/
Replies: >>4449062
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 4:16:15 PM No.4449062
>>4449053
yeah, dxo filmpack doesnt really do it for me.
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 5:01:48 PM No.4449088
>>4449028
>>4449031
>>4449037
gonna be honest with you m8, you are not even getting closer to gold 200
Replies: >>4449129
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 6:30:02 PM No.4449115
It's a wild goose chase; only filmfags would be able to tell the difference, and not a lot of them. Do what pleases you visually and be done with it.
Replies: >>4449129
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 6:33:13 PM No.4449117
>>4449037
>>4449028
This is not at all what kodachrome looked like

Don't pull the entire image into warm tones. Use any hsl tool where you can treat greens, blues, reds, yellows independent from one another
Replies: >>4449129 >>4449726
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 6:55:19 PM No.4449129
>>4449088
i am not even trying to get close to superia

>>4449115
yeah, that is the idea, in the end, but the process itself is fun, ive learnt a couple things

>>4449117
hsl tools dont give you enough granularity. the color transitions will fight you every step of the way...
Replies: >>4449132
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 6:58:55 PM No.4449132
>>4449129
>hsl tools dont give you enough granularity. the color transitions will fight you every step of the way...
what do you mean? Depends on which tool you use. There are tools (e.g. photoshop) that give you an infinity amount of granularity

Also, don't fetishize it. There is no Je ne sais quoi to Kodachrome. Just decrease saturation of greens and bump reds and you're halfway there. Kodachrome isn't that special desu.
Replies: >>4449139
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 7:18:18 PM No.4449139
MGWki
MGWki
md5: b6f353762779d235d7d8b00dd34f706f๐Ÿ”
>>4449132
There is, literally, scientifically, and provably, a "something indescribable" (using french for a concept that is easily communicated in English should be punishable by death) to Kodachrome.

Mostly because it is actually describable. There, you not only used french for a concept that English already covers (and in fewer words at that), but you were wrong.

Slide film does, in fact, record colors outside of digital color spaces. These are real colors. We can see them. Computers have trouble. You also have to look at real life film and real life darkroom prints to every say you've seen this because it's doubtful your computer screen is physically capable of reproducing them.
Replies: >>4449148 >>4449174 >>4450007
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 7:21:16 PM No.4449141
To fully understand the K64 look you've got to hold K64 slides in your hand up against a clear sky or LED light table. It is something that can't be digitized. The scanned files, or perhaps the viewing screens, never have the same wow factor. There is a certain lifelike reflectivity that digital can't do.
Replies: >>4449144 >>4449148
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 7:24:16 PM No.4449144
>>4449141
digital screens max out at under 300ppi and its still made of squares

film crams (depending on film stock, skill, and lens quality) 12-24mp into a 35mm rectangle so yeah, looking at a slide as shot is fine detail at levels screenbrains aren't used to seeing

this is why people who shoot film just to get scans off some ancient digital 10 bit ccd POS and throw the negatives in a box are fucking retarded and people who think ancient CCD POS cameras (aka handheld scanners) are "filmlike" are triple retarded
>CCD scanners and CCD scanners produce similar images WAOW
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 7:31:50 PM No.4449148
>>4449139
>>4449141
this, but I wouldn't say that is a special property of kodachrome, you get the same with viewing a painting IRL than viewing it on a screen
Replies: >>4449151
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 7:39:07 PM No.4449151
>>4449148
It's a special property of physical media

It's also the real reason to prefer high resolution and medium format cameras - greater color range and hiding digital artefacts like pixels and aliasing. Taking a photo of my cat on a HR FF = a photo of my cat. The same on an effective 10mp digishit like a fuji or canon rebel = my cat looks like a cartoon with complex fur structured reduced to fat shiny lines.
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 8:16:40 PM No.4449174
>>4449139
1. it's not french, it's an english phrase. Maybe they didn't teach you in school in Bombay, India
2. You're fetishizing it again. Pull the greens and push the reds, it's not that deep bro.
3. the pics you showed look like you moved the entire curve tool. It looks absolutely dogshit
Replies: >>4449185 >>4449231
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 8:27:27 PM No.4449185
>>4449174
>"Je ne sais quoi" isn't french -you, a dumb fucking thirdie
>"Measurable facts are made up fetishizing" - you, a dumb fucking thirdie
>"Everyone who calls me stupid is the same guy" -you, a dumb fucking thirdie
lmao
note said measurable facts also say you literally can not see the kodachrome advantage on your shitty thinkpad screen and anyone who worships mere SCANS is a retard.
Replies: >>4449206
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 8:52:24 PM No.4449206
>>4449185
>you literally can not see the kodachrome advantage
Sounds like a Kodachrome disadvantage
Replies: >>4449207
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 8:53:21 PM No.4449207
>>4449206
Its a huge advantage. it means poor people can go their entire lives without ever seeing what the big deal is. things like this are what sets photography as art apart from your instagram page.

also see: dye transfer prints
Replies: >>4449210
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 8:55:25 PM No.4449210
>>4449207
Neat, care to share some of the Kodachrome shots you've taken for your art portfolio?
Replies: >>4449213
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 8:56:32 PM No.4449213
>>4449210
I was born too late. Go ask a rothschild they still have kodachrome and personal processing facilities.
Replies: >>4449215
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 8:58:12 PM No.4449215
>>4449213
>Yes, I am a giant simp for technology I've never even used
Classic /p/
Replies: >>4449280
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 9:41:43 PM No.4449231
>>4449174
>american education
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 10:47:27 PM No.4449280
>>4449215
I've seen it in person however and it really does capture colors digital cameras literally can not see
Replies: >>4449298
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 11:14:41 PM No.4449298
>>4449280
It also looks like shit a lot of the time irl too
Replies: >>4449301
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 11:19:53 PM No.4449301
>>4449298
skill issue
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 1:03:39 PM No.4449726
k2
k2
md5: b806a16c1eb854756fd9497d8ba54c19๐Ÿ”
>>4449117
took the warm tones into consideration, spent some more time on it, embraced my inner Ken. what do you think
Replies: >>4449727
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 1:07:10 PM No.4449727
k2grain
k2grain
md5: 2347240e42e5f0ef95d947fb86df459e๐Ÿ”
>>4449726
took a lot of experimentation to get rid of the "spectral" halo mess in color transitions but this works on almost any image i throw at it
Replies: >>4449728
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 1:08:33 PM No.4449728
k3
k3
md5: 3a4b3068bf8985302c18e7362cc79790๐Ÿ”
>>4449727
more random dpreview photos
Replies: >>4449729
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 1:12:55 PM No.4449729
k4
k4
md5: a58564286c5378b98c0a25688e471492๐Ÿ”
>>4449728
Replies: >>4449740 >>4449921
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 2:16:41 PM No.4449740
k5
k5
md5: 9c0b0e95f70b51637b5864e1c38d4839๐Ÿ”
>>4449729
even sony files can be saved
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 2:30:03 PM No.4449745
Is Kodachrome just the precursor for "orange and teal"
Replies: >>4449750
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 2:37:43 PM No.4449750
>>4449745
Well, technically, any film is.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 5:33:25 PM No.4449834
>>4445769 (OP)
Don't listen to the copers, anon, K64 is goated and the world lost a bit of wonder when k*dak killed it. What strikes me is that I've never seen a kodachrome shot with totally blown out highlights. Idk if everyone who shot it was just an exposure god or what, but it's like both the shadows and the highlights just gracefully roll off into blacks and whites, only reaching them exactly where they need to. I know what you mean by subtle yet in your face saturation as well. Overall an amazing look, and I unironically think the cultural spirit of our time would be a lot more optimistic and ambitious if we were still capturing our memories on kodachrome.
But pro image, aerocolor and vision 3 are also pretty good for that, and I think if you use a combination of those 3 to just take photos of interesting moments in your life, important events, your kids, etc., you'll be thanking yourself when you're 70.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 7:10:57 PM No.4449921
>>4449729
these all look like shit ngl
Replies: >>4449955
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 8:22:45 PM No.4449955
>>4449921
cheers, elaborate
Replies: >>4449962
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 8:37:34 PM No.4449962
>>4449955
the colors are all fucked up
Replies: >>4449978
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 9:11:24 PM No.4449978
>>4449962
that is the point? also theres noone else contributing edits here so i am shooting blind.
Replies: >>4449997
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 9:57:25 PM No.4449997
>>4449978
No one here appreciates someone trying to contribute positively to the board
That's why all the good posters leave
Replies: >>4450004
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 10:03:10 PM No.4450004
>>4449997
well then thank fuck i have nowhere else to go
Replies: >>4450009
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 10:06:47 PM No.4450007
Screenshot 2025-07-20 at 16.00.47
Screenshot 2025-07-20 at 16.00.47
md5: f56920232887086d72d9c965fd98c193๐Ÿ”
>>4448503
I have no idea if this will help or just make things more confusing
in picrel, A = human eye sensitivity, B = some madeup film's sensitivity (slide film with RGB dyes to not get into negative inversion etc), C = transmittance of the dyes in that film once it's been developed, D = LEDs in a film scanner
skipping the scanner sensor for this under the assumption it's tuned to the LEDs
I marked out a few points on B, sources of light in an imaginary scene
point 1 is about pure red in human vision, but the film doesn't pick it up very well (see in B), resulting in comparatively little red dye in the developed film, which unfortunately doesn't line up well with the red LED in the scanner either
unfortunately the film's red dye also lines up with the green LED, meaning IRL pure reds look brown at the end of this whole process
point 2 is kind of ideal case, basically pure blue and the film picks it up well and reproduces it well once developed, and the blue LED also aligns well
point 3 is heading into near-infrared, but the film is pretty sensitive there (who the fuck designed this), even though its red dye well overlaps both red and green in human vision; end result in NIR light leaves a strong red cast, which the scanner picks up well
but again due to the red dye getting picked up by the green LED, the result is green-brown
all of the above is 100% made up and unrealistic to illustrate worst possible case
like I said most of the time you're really not going to notice
(just ignore the little hump in human red sensitivity at the blue end of the spectrum that contributes to how we see purples)
>>4449139
digital color spaces can represent whatever you want, they're just a relative mapping to other color spaces
you could edit your photos in the "Ektachrome color space" from your pic if you wanted, and if your software and chosen display device supported it
Replies: >>4450082 >>4450112
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 10:08:16 PM No.4450009
>>4450004
Same, lots of other places to actually read and learn and view images
Nothing beats here for the shitpositng
I still try to contribute too, it's an honest cause
cinefag !CiNE/YT/e6
7/20/2025, 11:47:14 PM No.4450067
IMGP2648
IMGP2648
md5: fe0b0cdf6ef3eabc108deb2f45cdd762๐Ÿ”
Quick attempt (color only, no grain), not quite there but closer to K64 than the original I'd guess. Just played with HSL and calibration in LR. There's some issues with color bleed at parts but again it was just a quick lazy attempt at it.
https://www.dpreview.com/sample-galleries/2340689509/pentax-k-1-ii-sample-gallery/5759668707
Replies: >>4450074 >>4450075 >>4451139 >>4451176 >>4451218
cinefag !CiNE/YT/e6
7/20/2025, 11:56:12 PM No.4450074
>>4450067
On second thought the yellows are still too green and the greens too saturated, scrap this
Replies: >>4450075 >>4451139
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 11:57:14 PM No.4450075
>>4450067
>>4450074
>I don't take photos so I have to use DPReview samples
lol
Replies: >>4450080
cinefag !CiNE/YT/e6
7/21/2025, 12:02:25 AM No.4450080
>>4450075
Why would I provide you with my RAWs and metadata? Let's use what's available to all.
Replies: >>4451190
cinefag !CiNE/YT/e6
7/21/2025, 12:09:27 AM No.4450082
>>4450007
A possible solution is striving to get a "neutral" image, then splitting it in channels corresponding to each K64 channel sensitivity and then rebuilding it based on how they'd show up developed. But it'd have to be done on a scene-by-scene basis because there's differences in how sensors react to different illuminants that can't be fully accounted with just white balance. OPF sensors seem promising in this regard.
Replies: >>4450103
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 12:44:44 AM No.4450103
>>4450082
>OPF sensors
neat, never heard of those
though what that tech does is almost eliminate channel crosstalk (ironically a big part of the "film look")
that just means it more accurately/idealistically captures the filtered light intensity at each site, so it still relies on the same filters the current silicon sensors do
ideally you want to capture the light with as much spectral resolution as possible, but we've kind of settled on RGB for over a hundred years, just different size/placement/shape of those "bins" over the visible spectrum
Replies: >>4450105
cinefag !CiNE/YT/e6
7/21/2025, 12:46:33 AM No.4450105
>>4450103
>though what that tech does is almost eliminate channel crosstalk (ironically a big part of the "film look")
It seems to eliminate the "wrong" part of crosstalk, the part that's basically noise.
Replies: >>4450112
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 12:55:16 AM No.4450112
>>4450105
yeah I guess that's a way to put it
it basically eliminates light & charge bleed between pixels, but doesn't do anything about transmittance overlap in the materials used for the filter (the stuff you can see on these types of graphs >>4450007)
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 4:33:06 PM No.4451045
Gonna upgrade my C1 today, I'll see how well the "match look" gets
Didn't realize you can use multiple images together as a reference for the matching
Replies: >>4451218
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:04:04 PM No.4451093
>>4445803
Thereโ€™s your problem.
You want to end up with the results of having used film, but donโ€™t want to do the work of just using film. Instead youโ€™ll do 10x the work and spend 100x as much time to try to make your digishits look like they came from film. Your goal is inherently dishonest, and your results will be dishonest images.

Ridley Scott spent a million fucking dollars hiring engineers and physicists for a year to duplicate the look of Kodachrome, and what they found is that like going to the moon, it would be easier to just buy Kodak and restart the Kodachrome process and make film, than it would be to try to duplicate all the fucking nuances that make Kodachrome look like it does. The complexity of how different wavelengths of light enter, bounce around in, and excite different parts of the chemistry is not possible to fully replicate without a fucking astronomically expensive undertaking.

Just take your digishit, dump your yellows, oversaturate your blues & greens, apply a blur to approximate whatever shitty lens you would have used back then, put way too much crappy grain effect on it, and make all your pictures with 2025 cars, clothes and tattooed plebs look like every teenage girls fakeass instatrash, like youโ€™re some sadfuck bastard who wishes you were in another era bc you canโ€™t get along in this one, but has no clue how to go about it, even though fucking loads of film cameras are dirt cheap and perfectly fine film is plentiful and higher quality than itโ€™s ever been.
Replies: >>4451097
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:15:14 PM No.4451097
>>4451093
There will come a day someday soon, when film is finally gone and nobody is in a position to develop it. It's probably not a stretch to say it'll happen within our life times.
What will people do when they want that older look when the film is all gone, the stores no longer dev it, and your rodinal is empty?
Replies: >>4451103
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:22:52 PM No.4451103
>>4451097
Well then you sadfuck losers are just going to have to shoot crystal clear flat boring images with the overpriced digital cameras you decided to buy and accept the consequences of your actions, instead of buying that shit and then coming on here and bitching about how your fucking images donโ€™t even look as good as a fuckin 1960s point & shoot.

Nigga this is a you problem, not a me problem.
Replies: >>4451105 >>4451109
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:27:00 PM No.4451105
>>4451103
Chill the fuck out you spastic, I was looking to stoke some sort of thought for a problem that is inevitable
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:28:30 PM No.4451109
>>4451103
problem broseph

film looks like shit. it's just worse than digital. throw a preset and fake grain on and now digital looks like film. there you go. maybe 13 hipsters will actually like your photo but no one else will.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 8:18:18 PM No.4451139
>>4450067
>>4450074
i quite like the tone of the wooden thing in the foreground you got. the rest is meh.
Replies: >>4451304
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:58:04 PM No.4451176
>>4450067
>CINEFAG POSTED PHOTO?
>nope stolen from dpreview
jfc
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 10:27:30 PM No.4451190
>>4450080
nobody asked for either. You don't take photos
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:54:22 PM No.4451218
koda2
koda2
md5: 479f0e8331d01a7807250c442f1e3551๐Ÿ”
>>4451045
Used the sample from >>4450067
1st is C1 defaults
2-7 are from using match look from the shorpy samples posted itt
8th is match look from the 6 samples referenced together
None quite hit, but definitely something I'll be exploring in the future, nice to have this capability with 1 click

Unrelated, but the new face retouching is insane, love it
Replies: >>4451221 >>4451222 >>4451229 >>4451306
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:59:49 PM No.4451221
250722000
250722000
md5: 76b85075d1d6e7bafb62ddeb75676806๐Ÿ”
>>4451218
Hold up, something funky's going on with PS contact sheets and the color
Picrel should be C1 default and that doesn't look like #1 to me at all
Replies: >>4451228 >>4451228
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:06:51 AM No.4451222
>>4451218
i mean this is cool and all i guess but which one is the REAL colour? as in what my eyes would see.
Replies: >>4451228
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:12:18 AM No.4451228
koda4
koda4
md5: 6ae1e77b8e72d1151a54e9c6561a38fe๐Ÿ”
>>4451221
Here we go. For whatever reason PS was opening these JPG's through Camera RAW and applying some more adjustments.
>>4451222
Hard to say, every camera and lens will capture a little different. Everyone's eyes are a little different. Top left >>4451221 would be opening the RAW in C1 with C1 defaults and no adjustments. It would also look different opened in a different RAW program too though.
Replies: >>4451307 >>4451318
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:13:19 AM No.4451229
>>4451218
Yeah, these are way overcooked lol
cinefag !CiNE/YT/e6
7/23/2025, 5:49:03 AM No.4451304
>>4451139
Funny, that greenish tone is why I condemned my own edit in a following post
cinefag !CiNE/YT/e6
7/23/2025, 5:51:01 AM No.4451306
>>4451218
Number 5 is the closest match imo. It's a great image for this kind of thing because save for skin tones, it has the whole palette that Kodachrome enhances the most.
cinefag !CiNE/YT/e6
7/23/2025, 5:52:24 AM No.4451307
>>4451228
It was better with PS adjustments, 5 was close.
Replies: >>4451318
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 5:58:17 AM No.4451314
Kodakchrome
Kodakchrome
md5: 58c0fc84b8d4e8c339a1b154528d8b87๐Ÿ”
>>4445769 (OP)
Here, cunts.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:12:07 AM No.4451318
>>4451307
Really? I think the first set looks terrible
#8 on >>4451228 looks kino
Replies: >>4451350
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 7:18:08 AM No.4451325
koda5
koda5
md5: 4621e644f094a646f0b866708064bd35๐Ÿ”
another, I think these look much better
left c1 film standard and defaults
right match looked from >>4445771 plus >>4445776
then some added contrast
Replies: >>4451340 >>4451350 >>4451586
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 8:15:01 AM No.4451340
>>4451325
Time to download C1 then.
#1 is just a bad example, but #2 and #3 have a certain Portra vibe. Not really kodachrome, but still very solid for what I imagine is essentially a one-click solution.
Replies: >>4451346
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 8:32:57 AM No.4451346
>>4451340
Yeah, going forward I'm gonna have to have albums of references
cinefag !CiNE/YT/e6
7/23/2025, 9:26:46 AM No.4451350
>>4451318
It may look kino to you, but it's not Kodachrome.
>>4451325
3 and 4 are nice, 1 I don't like and 2 turned the wood too magenta. Good looking but nothing like Kodachrome.
#3 was the closest and is still not there, greens should be more muted and again browns shouldn't be magenta. The reds on #4 are a nice approximation.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:08:11 PM No.4451377
I swear half the elusive Kodachrome look is due to people not realizing the photos they're gushing over have artificial light being used. Y'all ain't ever gunna mimic the look of a multi-light photo by sliding sliders around.

These all used strobes/continuous lighting.
>>4445771
>>4445772
>>4445774
>>4445800
>>4445815
Replies: >>4451379 >>4451430
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:23:03 PM No.4451379
>>4451377
yeah, were not blind
Replies: >>4451381
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:50:58 PM No.4451381
>>4451379
seems like most people are everytime this is brought up
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 4:58:36 PM No.4451430
>>4451377
>Kodachrome was only ever shot with artificial lighting
>No one ever took shots on Kodachrome with natural lighting and you will never see examples of this ever
Replies: >>4451626 >>4451667
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 8:20:38 PM No.4451586
chrome
chrome
md5: 87bbdedfbf5ca56c1115d5b8244ea83b๐Ÿ”
>>4451325
I have no idea what I have done. Definitely not Kodachrome, but it is something(?)
Replies: >>4451626
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:03:57 PM No.4451626
>>4451586
Congrats, you reached Aerocolor
>>4451430
I mean yeah, but every example ITT was taken with some artificial light, plus being at least medium format
Replies: >>4451628
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:20:13 PM No.4451628
things2
things2
md5: 6d2005a55767b9e710572cb032d15ac3๐Ÿ”
>>4451626
Yeah, I need to stop, this is not going the way I wanted it to go.

>https://www.dpreview.com/sample-galleries/7595010911/leica-q3-43-sample-gallery/9356983318
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:30:33 PM No.4451667
>>4451430
Jeez you're (you) retarded