T Bucket by Scott Young (Real steel)
Gentlepersons:
The Kodachrome Pictures:
These recently uploaded Kodachrome pictures have no artistic value. They were just uploaded to be representative of consumer Kodachrome picture recording during about 70 of the 75 years that Kodachrome was commercially available to the public. Unlike in today’s digital world it took time, money and effort to make a Kodachrome slide. We took fewer pictures, trying to stretch resources, but some sere still frivolous.
I’m 97 and all tuckered out. I probably will not post much more. The ratio of today’s digital pictures that are kept for any length of time and/or printed is much less than the film photos taken in days past. History will be lost. Meanwhile you get to be bored by some old Kodachromes, Anscochromes, a Dufaycolor and perhaps an old black&white or so.
The Camera...
This photo was taken with a Minolta 9xi and a prime lens. Minolta never got as popular as Canon or Nikon but the 9xi was surely the Packard of its era. It would autofocus at F:16, something I’ve never seen on any other camera or brand. Minolta had a 500mm autofocus Cat lens of F:8 that could be used with a doubler.
The Car:
Scott Young started this magnificent piece of automobile art with only an old rusty dented authentic 1926 Ford Model T body bucket. Everything else is from his imagination. He made the frame, put the engine together out of parts, chose old brass headlamps, radiator, transmission, rear end, etc. and modified most of that. The top framing was copied from an original with Scott hand forming sheet metal to make an exact duplicate. The craftsmanship is good as or better than any custom bodied fancy English car I’ve owned or seen with body by Hooper or Vanden Plas etc. The color, shape and form are all his idea.
The Film...
Kodachrome was my favorite film. My first roll in the late 30s was such a marvel to a young man. I had tried Dufaycolor which did pretty good, but if it had to be projected you had to ignore the lines of color which made up the image. Kodachrome was so much more colorful to boot. It was extremely sharp and almost grainless compared to other color and B&W processes.
Kodachrome was unique in American film history. Except for a licensee who used Kodachrome’s older process for a few years, nobody made anything like it. Most color films had all the color in the film. Kodachrome picked up color from the processing baths. Also unlike modern slide films which use chemical energy to reverse the negative image, Kodachrome used filtered lights to re-expose within the processing machine. Kodachrome evolved over the years, and was usually the clearest, sharpest grain free color film one could buy. That is until Kodak made a decision to reduce the budget to improve the product in favor of other products and offerings. Fuji Velvia soon eclipsed it in resolution and could be processed locally in regular E-6 mini-machines.
T Bucket by Scott Young (Real steel)
Gentlepersons:
The Kodachrome Pictures:
These recently uploaded Kodachrome pictures have no artistic value. They were just uploaded to be representative of consumer Kodachrome picture recording during about 70 of the 75 years that Kodachrome was commercially available to the public. Unlike in today’s digital world it took time, money and effort to make a Kodachrome slide. We took fewer pictures, trying to stretch resources, but some sere still frivolous.
I’m 97 and all tuckered out. I probably will not post much more. The ratio of today’s digital pictures that are kept for any length of time and/or printed is much less than the film photos taken in days past. History will be lost. Meanwhile you get to be bored by some old Kodachromes, Anscochromes, a Dufaycolor and perhaps an old black&white or so.
The Camera...
This photo was taken with a Minolta 9xi and a prime lens. Minolta never got as popular as Canon or Nikon but the 9xi was surely the Packard of its era. It would autofocus at F:16, something I’ve never seen on any other camera or brand. Minolta had a 500mm autofocus Cat lens of F:8 that could be used with a doubler.
The Car:
Scott Young started this magnificent piece of automobile art with only an old rusty dented authentic 1926 Ford Model T body bucket. Everything else is from his imagination. He made the frame, put the engine together out of parts, chose old brass headlamps, radiator, transmission, rear end, etc. and modified most of that. The top framing was copied from an original with Scott hand forming sheet metal to make an exact duplicate. The craftsmanship is good as or better than any custom bodied fancy English car I’ve owned or seen with body by Hooper or Vanden Plas etc. The color, shape and form are all his idea.
The Film...
Kodachrome was my favorite film. My first roll in the late 30s was such a marvel to a young man. I had tried Dufaycolor which did pretty good, but if it had to be projected you had to ignore the lines of color which made up the image. Kodachrome was so much more colorful to boot. It was extremely sharp and almost grainless compared to other color and B&W processes.
Kodachrome was unique in American film history. Except for a licensee who used Kodachrome’s older process for a few years, nobody made anything like it. Most color films had all the color in the film. Kodachrome picked up color from the processing baths. Also unlike modern slide films which use chemical energy to reverse the negative image, Kodachrome used filtered lights to re-expose within the processing machine. Kodachrome evolved over the years, and was usually the clearest, sharpest grain free color film one could buy. That is until Kodak made a decision to reduce the budget to improve the product in favor of other products and offerings. Fuji Velvia soon eclipsed it in resolution and could be processed locally in regular E-6 mini-machines.