He misunderstood it, one photographer Frank Glencairn liked kodachrome, but he made a LUT profile for the Sony FS100 digital camera. To mimick the look.
It's actually impossible - on this particular camera the film is rolling in reverse. Once inserted into the camera the whole film is rolled onto the empty roll and then rolls back into the cartridge on every shot. Thus, even if you accidentally open your camera's back all of the exposed shots are already into the cartridge.
I shot a roll of Kodachrome around 1999 of the California coast. I sent it out for processing at the Kodak facility and someone stole the developed photos. Kodak could confirm they received my roll of film but couldn't tell me what happened after that. I really wish I had my photos so I could scan them. I have a degree in photography and some of my photos have been published in magazines. Makes me wonder how they turned out. Wish I could see those images now, what a bummer..
I photographed friends and family in Kodachrome 64 starting 45 years ago. Now they are all gone but the slides are forever beautiful. It is bittersweet.
Why did I get so emotional seeing this? My family, my friends, my past times were documented by this awesome medium. I sucked at shooting film, but boy oh boy, it was so fun. For my family, and my friends. Love to them always in Kodachrome.
There was something special about the delayed gratification of shooting on film and not being able to see the results until days/weeks (even years) after when it was finally processed. I loved the accidental magic that would happen from time to time when you managed to capture that perfect moment, with the perfect lighting/settings and saw it flipping thru your photos for the first time.
Having shot in film long before digital, this made me quite sad. It's like watching an old friend pass away. I'm glad they finally brought back ektachrome at least.
Unfortunately the revival attempt failed due to the needed development infrastructure no longer existing. The last lab that processed it closed January 11 2011 after it finished a backorder for development.
I too shot many rolls of Kodachrome 25 and 64 as an industrial and fine art photographer after getting out of college. I started shooting it in 1965 in Jr. High School, all through college and up to the time it was discontinued. All my Kodachrome slides are in pristine now as much as they were then. The was nothing better! I'd always wished I had been available to shoot more of it in medium format. I loved the 6x6 and 6x7 formats. Finest film ever made for slides, none better. The warm color tones were absolutely amazing!! I don't really miss shooting film these days, far more options with digital, but film photography was a true art form. I have scanned many of my Kodachromes into digital files for use with Photoshop. Great documentary, many memories!!
Totally enjoyed watching this documentary! I have gotten into film photography a few years too late so missed out on the Kodachrome era but understand Kodachrome can be cross processed as a B&W negative and recently I've shot several vintage Kodachrome II, 25 and 40 Super 8 and Double 8 movie films and processed them myself as B&W negatives. I am fascinated with vintage colour film photography and have seen via the web how good Kodachrome slides of the 30s/40s look and how well the colour has kept on them, so I totally agree that Kodachrome was the best colour film ever made!
I've had this saved to my "Watch Later" playlist now since 2014-2015. Only now, whilst going through and cleaning out that list (which had over 1,100 videos!) do I get to watch and appreciate this gem. Thank you for this wonderful experience of your life. I hope that your life has been full of love and fulfillment since this was originally posted.
Thanks for sharing this great Video - Steve is so iconic, as well as Robert deNiro, one of my fave Actors, like Liam Neeson, Al Pacino, etc. It's way emotional, this video.
The movie Kodachrome brought me here... if you found this documentary interesting please check out the trailer..Ed Harris is so good in it. He plays a dying world renowned photographer on a road trip with his nurse..Elizabeth Olsen, and estranged son..Jason Sudeikis to Parsons Kansas where the last rolls of kodachrome can be developed. Yes, the movie is predictable and a tear jerker, and heartwarming all at once, but despite itself its a good film all shot on Kodak 35mm. Also if you watch the movie please make sure you watch the complete credits where some excellent pictures were shot.
Absolutely LOVED this video!! Digital might be sharper, easier to process...but you know what?? you can NEVER beat the characteristics of film!! It's like a painting...oil on canvas...it's the look. God bless this man for paying such a wonderful tribute to such a great and exciting era...well done mate!
It's just another medium. Society is too overindulgent and fad obsessed these days always wanting to replace everything completely with something all the time for a feeling of fake progress. Painters don't give up painting just because pastels exist or sculpting exists, you don't have to be only film or digital either.
@@kishascape with digital cameras produced manufacturers gave the opportunity to make your own painting by adjusting colours by yourself (even if you have no clue how to paint, at least most don't and have no idea what good colours look like) without giving the final brushstrokes with the already perfected colours. With film photography part of art is already provided with coloured film and the science behind it. So you can almost say you can never beat film, but also you can create your own masterpiece with digital colour manipulation that doesn't exist with film yet.
Love this. Love how it goes from wandering around NYC trying to find something interesting, to shooting a portrait of Robert De Niro, to travelling back to India.
Amazing no words can describe the efforts behind these photos and the love with which this last role of kodachrome film was shot. Poetic indeed. Steve is a Superman.
I loved this. It made me proud to be a photographer,although just learning and very sad that we no longer have such a wonderful medium to use. I too,think there was nothing wrong with using the digital to make sure the shot was the way he wanted it and even then somrthing still could have gone wrong. It was if the Universe put this all together perfectly. Those pictures were magic.
Fantastic project and insightful film. Loved the inner struggle of finding subjects to make every last frame count, of getting started but with what? Awesome story. Thank you.
+Andy film isn't expensive. Good DSLRs can cost upwards of 1000$, while a decent film SLR camera and lens can be had for 50$. Film itself isn't expensive. A roll of Fujifilm is only 3.50. You can buy 100' ft rolls of Ilford film for only 50$, cutting the cost basically in half. Development can be done at home to save costs. You can scan negatives with a flatbed scanner which everyone has available from public libraries, and high quality scanners can be had for 200$ easily. Cost isn't an issue with film, it's the time/workflow of getting all that done. It takes more work, and more time. But some believe it pays off.
Simply amazing!! last month i buy my first Leica M6 i have used for 3 year canon digital, and i feel this kind of emotion when i shoot with my leica. i want that every frame be special.. Thank Steve!! i like your work..
Analog photography has some "magic" in it. I've found my old analog SLR that I've been given to in childhood and shot a film, then gave it to a lab. I was much more amazed with the effect than after photographing in digital.
For many years if you shot 35mm and wanted to sell to magazines you shot Kodachrome. Still my favorite and if my hard drive died I still had the original looking as good as ever. This was a fitting tribute to an old friend.
What a sad honor to shoot the last roll of such a legendary film. Think of all the classic images that have been captured on this film over the decades.
He has such wonderful photos. Though they were shot on real film with a real camera, I hope he shares them all digitally in the future so everyone can enjoy them.
I'll always love Kodachrome. It would have been really cool if he had been able to take a photo of Paul Simon on this final roll since they did take his Kodachrome away!
ive had digital for some time, but i recently aquired a nikon 35mm camera and have already picked up some ektarchrome and fuji velvia, for this reason i am glad for digital, as it shows what i should never have left
Life is beyond... Inspiration, creativity, dedication, being in the state of innocence and STILL.... S.. Great Work Sir Steve Mccurry... My salutation to you
I decided i wanted to get back in film photography, so I invested in a decent scanner, a professional Nikon SLR and some lenses. And i've got to say this as I am sitting scanning my negatives. wow why didnt I do this before?! The colours of even a cheap consumer film, are more vivid, delicious and describing than what I have seen from any digital camera. Film's got me hooked.
Digital colour is really ugly. It doesn't come close to film. In fact, film is better hands down. The onky thing digital has is it's quicker, but to be that is a downside speaking as an artist.
The one question digital photographers don't ask is how their images are going to be preserved for 60 plus years with all the changes in technology. I just got through having my kodachrome slides taken in the fifties scanned as well as black and white negatives for the early 1900's and they came out great. Some of these can be see on my Flickr site. My early aurora photographs were taken using Kodachrome 200 pushed 2 stops with great results. www.flickr.com/photos/116856615@N07/
The reason almost nobody shoots film these days is because you can emulate the look of film in post production on your raw files. And you're joking that film has a more vivid color than digital, right??? (Maybe 6 years ago when you made that statement this was true). I shot Velvia and Provia and Ektachrome for years and none of those film stocks are better than digital. I really don't know why anyone would spend the time to shoot film (print or transparency), process it, scan it into a digital file to do post production (and then print it lol) when you can just shoot a raw file and do what you want to it in post. Film is largely inferior to digital in terms of image quality: even the mighty Provia only had about 8 stops of dynamic range compared to a digital file's 10-14 stops. And you can make a raw file into a color or mono image, can't do that with film. The problem with digital as I see it is the over-reliance on resolution (more megapixels). Kodachrome had the equivalence of about 8mp of resolution compared to digital, Ektachrome maybe 10mp, Provia 10~12. Nowadays if you don't shoot at least 24mp you're a dinosaur, unworthy to hold a digital camera lol. And the more resolution a photograph has the less it looks like film. The industry has been too focused on image-quality and selling the latest greatest sharpest sensors and lenses. We as photographers should be focusing on quality images, not necessarily image-quality. Did anyone care that Saul Leiter's photograph's were not super sharp? His colors were muted too, but that was "his" look. He made timeless images. No, I'm not contradicting my first paragraph. I'm not advocating a return to color film. Film was messy and time consuming and expensive (digital "film" is cheap). Especially when you can get the look of film on a 12-20mp Canon or a 16mp Fuji SOOC. B&W film is the exception. At least with B&W you can control the entire process from exposure to developing the neg to printing. Shooting and processing B&W film is the essence of true photography IMHO. But for God's sake develop your own film, don't send it to a lab, and print the negatives in a darkroom, don't scan them into a digital file and do post production and printing on your computer. Only wankers do that. Just one old photographer's opinion.
having completely switched to film from digital i find this video very motivational. btw, i think he shot a few rolls (probably different films). the film was originally loaded into an f6 and some photos taken on an f100.
I started with Ilford pan f and Kodak pan x then went to Adox KB14 with its magical resolution. Then Kodachrome was so good i moved to it. i still mis this film.
I got my first Nikon when I was 13. I picked it out of a small line of cameras. Nikkormat FT3 with a 50mm. Always used kodachrome. Loved the reds. Still have the camera.
I don't know what it is, but there is something about slide film, especially Kodachrome, that makes it better than any painting, digital photo, hologram, 4k video, or even most C-41 film (though I love Kodak Ektar 100). Kodachrome was just amazing.
Better than any painting? Do me a favour. Try going to the Prado and standing in front of a Diego Velázquez painting and saying that with a straight face.
Steve, I am so highly appreciative of your photography with film. I also had used Kodachrome ASA 64 for many years during my 20's,30's, and 40's. I am now 64 and look back at my slides and my prints. I am so impressed with the color saturation and stability of these photographs I took. I am only an amature photographer. But I loved shooting with film. Digital is more instantaneous results in the viewing screen on the back of any Digital camera. While the colors are interesting, Kodachrome had better in depth saturation of nuances of color separation. Digital will capture the color but it is muted in comparison by its ability to compress pixels. It is just not the same.
+TRan TRung Thanks for pointing it out. I did spot a continuation error there (I'm more into movies and can't help but notice for that stuff). This is a video production and a lot of it is obviously staged or cherry-picked/edited into a new context to make it more dramatic, flowing and interesting (which doesn't mean it's fake at all - there is simply no other way of making a professional production). I have a feeling this man didn't shoot just one roll of Kodachrome 64, but several - just to be 100% on the safe side. I would have as a photographer and I would have asked the photographer if I was the director/producer of the documentary video.
A wonderful thing I noticed is that Steve McCurry's digital camera has taken a back seat to his film camera. It's actually assisting his film camera. When you start to consider why, that's when it gets really interesting. Because the 'depth of colours' is so amazing on the Kodachrome - which on the surface of it makes no sense because it can be easily achieved with digital photography. What many photographs neglect today is the importance of film. And this documentary proves that.
Great Kodachrome Film Shots by Master Photography .... I like his Nikon Gears ... I would expect to see the digital film simulation to be available within digital SLR camera in the near future.
I shot my first roll of it not long ago and love it. it will be one of my favourite color films next to Cinestill 800T that I love using for night shots.
I found a cool box for $2 at a thrift store full of kodachrome slides from 1960, if it wasnt bc of that I wouldn't known about kodachrome. There so cute and unique , the slides
I wonder why no one mentions an operator. Yeah that film is about the photographer and the last production piece of a particular film, but operator is so talented here! His shots are amazing! Composition wise and everything. Just beautiful, its not a mundane task to document such a story.
It amazes me that they managed to get interlacing problems with this. What was it shot with? And why so low resolution? This nice piece deserves better.
21:32 i made that same decision back in 2017, sold off all my digital cameras and equipment, spent the money on recomissioning my old 1983 Minolta X-700 that my dad gave to me a few months before, and went back to shooting film, mostly slide film. And i don't regret it one bit! i don't get anywhere near the satisfaction and the results i want from digital compared to film.
My father Charles R. Barr was the chemist who came up with the emulsion used in Kodachrome film and he did it in the research labs in Building 59.
Kodachrome is coming back... Some guy reversed engineered the entire process.
source please!
I have original patents
nah. Who reengineerd the entire process and where can i find futher information @Rebassed
He misunderstood it, one photographer Frank Glencairn liked kodachrome, but he made a LUT profile for the Sony FS100 digital camera. To mimick the look.
A video on Kodachrome and it's only 360p? Might as well be Kodak Gold.
stiknstring ROTFLMAO! ok..are we the only 2 that get the obvious irony? ;-)
Danny Bumpkins You're not the only two hahaha. I'm in.
+stiknstring The fact that he pre-shoots every photo on a Digital Camera also seems pretty funny.
+stiknstring I just got 2 developed rolls kodak gold 200 last week, not too bad, way better than 360p lol.....
+yuxuan qi I don't like Kodak Gold because it is still very grainy. I prefer Ektar or Fujicolor.
It makes me feel better that Steve McCurry had a hard time finding inspiration where he lived
"Shit, I forgot to roll the film back into the canister..."
I really enjoyed this. Wish it were in HD to appreciate the images more...
Very unlikely since he uses nikon F6, always rewind film automatically.
It's actually impossible - on this particular camera the film is rolling in reverse. Once inserted into the camera the whole film is rolled onto the empty roll and then rolls back into the cartridge on every shot. Thus, even if you accidentally open your camera's back all of the exposed shots are already into the cartridge.
@@petertakov No
not correct
I shot a roll of Kodachrome around 1999 of the California coast. I sent it out for processing at the Kodak facility and someone stole the developed photos. Kodak could confirm they received my roll of film but couldn't tell me what happened after that. I really wish I had my photos so I could scan them. I have a degree in photography and some of my photos have been published in magazines. Makes me wonder how they turned out. Wish I could see those images now, what a bummer..
"I think I wanna quit with digital and go back to kodakchrome"
I photographed friends and family in Kodachrome 64 starting 45 years ago. Now they are all gone but the slides are forever beautiful. It is bittersweet.
Nobody is going to talk about how Steve's f100 turned into an f6 with the f100 sitting in the background with a kodachrome box in front of it 😂
😂
Why did I get so emotional seeing this? My family, my friends, my past times were documented by this awesome medium. I sucked at shooting film, but boy oh boy, it was so fun. For my family, and my friends. Love to them always in Kodachrome.
It's back dawg. Ektachrome 100
@@colejensen6397 😅
@@colejensen6397 Ektachrome sucks and is not kodachrome, genius.
There was something special about the delayed gratification of shooting on film and not being able to see the results until days/weeks (even years) after when it was finally processed.
I loved the accidental magic that would happen from time to time when you managed to capture that perfect moment, with the perfect lighting/settings and saw it flipping thru your photos for the first time.
Having shot in film long before digital, this made me quite sad. It's like watching an old friend pass away. I'm glad they finally brought back ektachrome at least.
Yeah sure was it had the best color saturation of any film
Ektachrome sucks. That was just a disappointing waste.
Just read on Peta Pixel:
“Kodak ‘Investigating What it Would Take’ to Bring Back Kodachrome.”
Steve should get the #1 roll of the productionline!
T.B.Photo you saw they are bringing back Ektachrome later this year right?
Rediscover Film yes Ektacrome is back. But according to the article on PP. Kodak are resurtshing the possibility to potentially bring back Kodacrome.
T.B.Photo be damn near impossible to keep it alive
He fakes his shots on Photoshop
Unfortunately the revival attempt failed due to the needed development infrastructure no longer existing. The last lab that processed it closed January 11 2011 after it finished a backorder for development.
I too shot many rolls of Kodachrome 25 and 64 as an industrial and fine art photographer after getting out of college. I started shooting it in 1965 in Jr. High School, all through college and up to the time it was discontinued. All my Kodachrome slides are in pristine now as much as they were then. The was nothing better! I'd always wished I had been available to shoot more of it in medium format. I loved the 6x6 and 6x7 formats. Finest film ever made for slides, none better. The warm color tones were absolutely amazing!! I don't really miss shooting film these days, far more options with digital, but film photography was a true art form. I have scanned many of my Kodachromes into digital files for use with Photoshop. Great documentary, many memories!!
He should've photographed Paul Simon. He did write a song about it.
Big Al And lives in New York.
Totally enjoyed watching this documentary! I have gotten into film photography a few years too late so missed out on the Kodachrome era but understand Kodachrome can be cross processed as a B&W negative and recently I've shot several vintage Kodachrome II, 25 and 40 Super 8 and Double 8 movie films and processed them myself as B&W negatives. I am fascinated with vintage colour film photography and have seen via the web how good Kodachrome slides of the 30s/40s look and how well the colour has kept on them, so I totally agree that Kodachrome was the best colour film ever made!
I've had this saved to my "Watch Later" playlist now since 2014-2015. Only now, whilst going through and cleaning out that list (which had over 1,100 videos!) do I get to watch and appreciate this gem.
Thank you for this wonderful experience of your life. I hope that your life has been full of love and fulfillment since this was originally posted.
Incredibly moving. You are one of the greats, Steve. No doubt about that.
Thanks for sharing this great Video - Steve is so iconic, as well as Robert deNiro, one of my fave Actors, like Liam Neeson, Al Pacino, etc. It's way emotional, this video.
The movie Kodachrome brought me here... if you found this documentary interesting please check out the trailer..Ed Harris is so good in it. He plays a dying world renowned photographer on a road trip with his nurse..Elizabeth Olsen, and estranged son..Jason Sudeikis to Parsons Kansas where the last rolls of kodachrome can be developed. Yes, the movie is predictable and a tear jerker, and heartwarming all at once, but despite itself its a good film all shot on Kodak 35mm. Also if you watch the movie please make sure you watch the complete credits where some excellent pictures were shot.
A rich tapestry of heart and soul of a photography and the world we live in. Bravo!
Lee McLaughlin
Absolutely LOVED this video!! Digital might be sharper, easier to process...but you know what?? you can NEVER beat the characteristics of film!! It's like a painting...oil on canvas...it's the look. God bless this man for paying such a wonderful tribute to such a great and exciting era...well done mate!
It's just another medium. Society is too overindulgent and fad obsessed these days always wanting to replace everything completely with something all the time for a feeling of fake progress. Painters don't give up painting just because pastels exist or sculpting exists, you don't have to be only film or digital either.
@@kishascape with digital cameras produced manufacturers gave the opportunity to make your own painting by adjusting colours by yourself (even if you have no clue how to paint, at least most don't and have no idea what good colours look like) without giving the final brushstrokes with the already perfected colours. With film photography part of art is already provided with coloured film and the science behind it. So you can almost say you can never beat film, but also you can create your own masterpiece with digital colour manipulation that doesn't exist with film yet.
Love this. Love how it goes from wandering around NYC trying to find something interesting, to shooting a portrait of Robert De Niro, to travelling back to India.
Amazing no words can describe the efforts behind these photos and the love with which this last role of kodachrome film was shot. Poetic indeed. Steve is a Superman.
WOW! WHAT A GREAT LITTLE MOVIE! I LOVE SM'S WORK. THANKS FOR SHARING!!
I loved this. It made me proud to be a photographer,although just learning and very sad that we no longer have such a wonderful medium to use. I too,think there was nothing wrong with using the digital to make sure the shot was the way he wanted it and even then somrthing still could have gone wrong. It was if the Universe put this all together perfectly. Those pictures were magic.
Very amazing, Steve. Another job done well!
I only discovered this pearl in 2023!! So much beauty and emotion, I'm speechless. Wonderful video
Loved the video, your thoughts and where you chose to shoot was so very interesting!!!!
Fantastic project and insightful film. Loved the inner struggle of finding subjects to make every last frame count, of getting started but with what? Awesome story. Thank you.
It's 2016 and now everyone want to emulate film. What an irony.
+marksikun No real choice. Film simply became an outdated, expensive dinosaur. A beautiful one, but nonetheless..
+Andy I still shoot film.
That's awesome, I guess.
+LDSRaichu Me too!
+Andy film isn't expensive. Good DSLRs can cost upwards of 1000$, while a decent film SLR camera and lens can be had for 50$. Film itself isn't expensive. A roll of Fujifilm is only 3.50. You can buy 100' ft rolls of Ilford film for only 50$, cutting the cost basically in half. Development can be done at home to save costs. You can scan negatives with a flatbed scanner which everyone has available from public libraries, and high quality scanners can be had for 200$ easily.
Cost isn't an issue with film, it's the time/workflow of getting all that done. It takes more work, and more time. But some believe it pays off.
Really wish I had been into photography when I was a teen, I totally would have brought a roll of this with me when I was travelling back in 05!
I just loved Kodachrome, even after much cheaper film appeared. I will forever miss this film, and this technology!
Inspirational stuff! Long live film! As always wonderful images.
Thanks Steve , now I can have a good night sleep with stimulating dreams! A great story to share with my FIT photo students!
Simply amazing!! last month i buy my first Leica M6 i have used for 3 year canon digital, and i feel this kind of emotion when i shoot with my leica. i want that every frame be special.. Thank Steve!! i like your work..
Makes me long for the past. Thanks so much.
Beautiful colours - and a very emotive subject - very well done and thank you for making the project.
Superb story. I feel that many people these days are forgetting to, make their photography meaningful, but you nailed it superbly.
Watched it dozen times. Always the same emotion. Humanity is our hope.
Analog photography has some "magic" in it. I've found my old analog SLR that I've been given to in childhood and shot a film, then gave it to a lab. I was much more amazed with the effect than after photographing in digital.
A-mazing. I'm not a film buff but I love to watch Steve McCurry do his thing. Great Vid.
Shooting Kodachrome images for Nat Geo! What a photography dream job! You are so lucky (and skilled) to have had a long career doing just that!
No Photoshop, No Lightroom, No HDR! You're the best Steve!
Dark room manipulation and choosing a film type is basically picking a filter before you shoot tho...
I am so happy I learned a new technique from this presentation. Have the subject blink on 2. Really great stuff.
This guy is a master! Love his work, such a knowledgeable guy.
For many years if you shot 35mm and wanted to sell to magazines you shot Kodachrome. Still my favorite and if my hard drive died I still had the original looking as good as ever. This was a fitting tribute to an old friend.
I have had Kodachome developed at Dwaynes. I took a Kodachome class in 2004. We all had Super8 cameras and it was fantastic.
living in a such a big city, I feel uninspired like Steve did, when you get of the city and see how happy people are , it inspires you
I'm just hoping it doesn't turn into a roll of New York City. What a waste that will have been. Fingers crossed.
Not only a great video. This video thought me how to actually spend my time wisely when doing photography to spread a message.
Nothing beats a nice slide projection on a good screen!
Kids today have hardly seen this, or even a film cartridge....
What a sad honor to shoot the last roll of such a legendary film. Think of all the classic images that have been captured on this film over the decades.
😢 yeah I miss it too mate .. thanks for uploading
What I absolutely love about photography unlike other technology the camera mechanisms make such a great sound.
Steve McCurry is a great photographer.. great work.. and its fascinating to see how he works.
could not think of a better way to properly celebrate the end of an era; much respect to the master!
thankfully, photography is far from dead.
He has such wonderful photos. Though they were shot on real film with a real camera, I hope he shares them all digitally in the future so everyone can enjoy them.
I'll always love Kodachrome. It would have been really cool if he had been able to take a photo of Paul Simon on this final roll since they did take his Kodachrome away!
I hope Steve saved the box the "last roll" came in - it would have the expiry date and batch number - definitely worthy of museum piece!
this is just so awesome! the last rol ever... wow, and what an eye Mr McCurry got! :)
ive had digital for some time, but i recently aquired a nikon 35mm camera and have already picked up some ektarchrome and fuji velvia,
for this reason i am glad for digital, as it shows what i should never have left
Thank you Steve 👏
Life is beyond... Inspiration, creativity, dedication, being in the state of innocence and STILL.... S.. Great Work Sir Steve Mccurry... My salutation to you
Great video and stunning images
I decided i wanted to get back in film photography, so I invested in a decent scanner, a professional Nikon SLR and some lenses. And i've got to say this as I am sitting scanning my negatives. wow why didnt I do this before?!
The colours of even a cheap consumer film, are more vivid, delicious and describing than what I have seen from any digital camera.
Film's got me hooked.
Digital colour is really ugly. It doesn't come close to film. In fact, film is better hands down. The onky thing digital has is it's quicker, but to be that is a downside speaking as an artist.
The one question digital photographers don't ask is how their images are going to be preserved for 60 plus years with all the changes in technology. I just got through having my kodachrome slides taken in the fifties scanned as well as black and white negatives for the early 1900's and they came out great. Some of these can be see on my Flickr site. My early aurora photographs were taken using Kodachrome 200 pushed 2 stops with great results.
www.flickr.com/photos/116856615@N07/
The reason almost nobody shoots film these days is because you can emulate the look of film in post production on your raw files. And you're joking that film has a more vivid color than digital, right??? (Maybe 6 years ago when you made that statement this was true). I shot Velvia and Provia and Ektachrome for years and none of those film stocks are better than digital. I really don't know why anyone would spend the time to shoot film (print or transparency), process it, scan it into a digital file to do post production (and then print it lol) when you can just shoot a raw file and do what you want to it in post. Film is largely inferior to digital in terms of image quality: even the mighty Provia only had about 8 stops of dynamic range compared to a digital file's 10-14 stops. And you can make a raw file into a color or mono image, can't do that with film.
The problem with digital as I see it is the over-reliance on resolution (more megapixels). Kodachrome had the equivalence of about 8mp of resolution compared to digital, Ektachrome maybe 10mp, Provia 10~12. Nowadays if you don't shoot at least 24mp you're a dinosaur, unworthy to hold a digital camera lol. And the more resolution a photograph has the less it looks like film. The industry has been too focused on image-quality and selling the latest greatest sharpest sensors and lenses. We as photographers should be focusing on quality images, not necessarily image-quality. Did anyone care that Saul Leiter's photograph's were not super sharp? His colors were muted too, but that was "his" look. He made timeless images.
No, I'm not contradicting my first paragraph. I'm not advocating a return to color film. Film was messy and time consuming and expensive (digital "film" is cheap). Especially when you can get the look of film on a 12-20mp Canon or a 16mp Fuji SOOC. B&W film is the exception. At least with B&W you can control the entire process from exposure to developing the neg to printing. Shooting and processing B&W film is the essence of true photography IMHO. But for God's sake develop your own film, don't send it to a lab, and print the negatives in a darkroom, don't scan them into a digital file and do post production and printing on your computer. Only wankers do that. Just one old photographer's opinion.
having completely switched to film from digital i find this video very motivational.
btw, i think he shot a few rolls (probably different films). the film was originally loaded into an f6 and some photos taken on an f100.
He should've used a full manual camera and darkroom loaded for extra exposures.
I remember shooting a couple of rolls when I was younger I was blown away by the color, I miss it.
I started with Ilford pan f and Kodak pan x then went to Adox KB14 with its magical resolution. Then Kodachrome was so good i moved to it. i still mis this film.
Crackin! Love this vid :-) Really shows just how awesome analogue is!!!!!!!! ;-)
He's got a Nikon camera, he loves to take photographs,
Now Kodak done took his Kodachrome away
I feel so emotional and inspired watching this
I got my first Nikon when I was 13. I picked it out of a small line of cameras. Nikkormat FT3 with a 50mm. Always used kodachrome. Loved the reds. Still have the camera.
That was really neat. What a fun journey, and what a career, for both the film (films since there were a few speeds right?) and Steve himself.
I don't know what it is, but there is something about slide film, especially Kodachrome, that makes it better than any painting, digital photo, hologram, 4k video, or even most C-41 film (though I love Kodak Ektar 100). Kodachrome was just amazing.
'painting' u r wrong
Better than any painting? Do me a favour. Try going to the Prado and standing in front of a Diego Velázquez painting and saying that with a straight face.
It is called color gamut
painting are a completely different medium
wonderful images and ideas. makes me want to go out and explore the world in 2013
fantastic,just shows what can be done and its still down to the photographer,might just buy a film camera and try it,great photographs
Outstanding!
Steve, I am so highly appreciative of your photography with film. I also had used Kodachrome ASA 64 for many years during my 20's,30's, and 40's. I am now 64 and look back at my slides and my prints. I am so impressed with the color saturation and stability of these photographs I took. I am only an amature photographer. But I loved shooting with film. Digital is more instantaneous results in the viewing screen on the back of any Digital camera. While the colors are interesting, Kodachrome had better in depth saturation of nuances of color separation. Digital will capture the color but it is muted in comparison by its ability to compress pixels. It is just not the same.
Really nice video for inspiration of photography. I love this video.
I watched this video for many times, and still very much excited. Thanks to Steve Mccurry & NatGeo.
Great doc.
Excellent video 😊!
Thanks for having me on there! Its an honor.
Yes.
you are amazing shenaz
You’re not on here. Stop lying. Always trying to fake famousness
@@phatcrayonz at 26:23 , yes she is Shenaz Treasury, an Indian model, TV host.
Im guessing a troll..just a feeling
RIP Kodachrome! Thanks for the memories!
ive been looking for this for ages
Loved this video!
Anyone noticed the camera he used to load the film has changed from a Nikon F100 to F6 @@ 3:20 - 3:45
+TRan TRung yup noticed it
+TRan TRung Thanks for pointing it out. I did spot a continuation error there (I'm more into movies and can't help but notice for that stuff). This is a video production and a lot of it is obviously staged or cherry-picked/edited into a new context to make it more dramatic, flowing and interesting (which doesn't mean it's fake at all - there is simply no other way of making a professional production).
I have a feeling this man didn't shoot just one roll of Kodachrome 64, but several - just to be 100% on the safe side. I would have as a photographer and I would have asked the photographer if I was the director/producer of the documentary video.
Yeah, noticed that too! And it looks like he loaded it in an F5 in the beginning... or at least it's what we're lead to think.
You can change cameras with 1 roll actually, just don't wind it all the way
@@Kyzox2000 Not with an F100 or an F5 cause they have autowinders.
Ok... Now I don't feel so stupid using my digi camera to set up my shots before using film.
Yep, if the pros do it, no shame in it at all lol
@@cpufreak101 you shouldn't be ashamed of it. That's a smart thing to do since you only have 36 shots and you can't delete the bad shot
I been looking into a Nikon F6, and I'm happy to see that Steve used an F6 as his last camera to shoot kodachrome.
A wonderful thing I noticed is that Steve McCurry's digital camera has taken a back seat to his film camera. It's actually assisting his film camera. When you start to consider why, that's when it gets really interesting. Because the 'depth of colours' is so amazing on the Kodachrome - which on the surface of it makes no sense because it can be easily achieved with digital photography. What many photographs neglect today is the importance of film. And this documentary proves that.
The digital is a light meter. Like people used to use Polaroids.
Great Kodachrome Film Shots by Master Photography .... I like his Nikon Gears ... I would expect to see the digital film simulation to be available within digital SLR camera in the near future.
Ektachrome is back yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anime Studio Animation SO EXCITED!
how do you feel
I shot my first roll of it not long ago and love it. it will be one of my favourite color films next to Cinestill 800T that I love using for night shots.
Except the slowest speed you can get is 100asa. I don't think they are bringing back the 25asa film. Oh well at least they are bringing it back.
Ektachrome is dead!
It's not discontinued or anything it's just dead to me.
I found a cool box for $2 at a thrift store full of kodachrome slides from 1960, if it wasnt bc of that I wouldn't known about kodachrome. There so cute and unique , the slides
Awesome - Have to agree a hi-def version would be nice.
Wow,that girls eyes at 3:05...I`ve never forgotten that photo,amazing,mesmeric.
This needs to be reuploaded with higher quality
I wonder why no one mentions an operator. Yeah that film is about the photographer and the last production piece of a particular film, but operator is so talented here! His shots are amazing! Composition wise and everything. Just beautiful, its not a mundane task to document such a story.
i know right! so beautiful
It amazes me that they managed to get interlacing problems with this. What was it shot with? And why so low resolution? This nice piece deserves better.
21:32 i made that same decision back in 2017, sold off all my digital cameras and equipment, spent the money on recomissioning my old 1983 Minolta X-700 that my dad gave to me a few months before, and went back to shooting film, mostly slide film.
And i don't regret it one bit! i don't get anywhere near the satisfaction and the results i want from digital compared to film.
Love the x700. 570, xd11, 101. All great
What a great documentary.
I still have a roll of kodachrome sitting in my camera bag. Ive been saving it for years.
Perfect, right out of the camera.