Tuesday, August 24, 2010


A 1922 Kodachrome film test.

Wikipedia tells us Kodachrome was the first successful subtractive color system but was ultimately not commercially successful in the motion picture realm.
Noteworthy in this test is the total lack of dark greens & only a brief sampling of dark blue. I like the pale greens in the clothing. I wonder how many generations of reproduction this web video went through. There still seems to be some decent highlight detail but any shadow detail seems to have disappeared. A black person would have been good for showing off the shadow detail, of course, but it was 1922, so.....
The speed is great. The flickering of the light - not so great.

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