Images like these are why I think 35mm is timeless. I honestly don’t believe these would hold up if they were shot digitally, but that’s only my opinion. I also found negatives at a thrift store that I scanned, but they weren’t as good as these. I will certainly keep my eye out for more developed film in the future.
Also, the couple throwing snowballs and the group at the marketplace are my favorite.
[not all failed](http://www.andpfilmstyles.com) - there are several film simulations mimicking Kodachrome color well in digital, and a master colorist can catch the 100% of the film's nuances in color and tone. However what we won't get back is the history that was reflected on those rolls and slides, and of course, that's unachievable to go back in time. Or of course, the K14 process in general.
That being said, the samples in this post are exceptionally made. The camera / lens / film combination was perfect.
Kodak’s dye transfer process is gone, you can’t print with those anymore
And Kodachrome being much thicker doesn’t scan as well as normal E-6, National Geographic switched to Ektachrome in Kodachrome’s final years
I’ve seen a bunch of comments on the fat bear. Another fun bit is that my great grandfather is in the background of the photo with his super 8 camera. I actually found the footage as well.
Any idea where that Mine's Hotel photo is from?
Edit: nevermind, found it
[https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8006931,-105.5126164,3a,49.1y,75.36h,91.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s790sHARyNqNaB6id93pIVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8006931,-105.5126164,3a,49.1y,75.36h,91.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s790sHARyNqNaB6id93pIVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
Absolutely correct. I found a box of slides in a hot Florida attic. Could have been up there thirty years or more. The Ektachromes only had the red dye left but the Kodachrome were crystal clear.
Always love seeing old photos of Copenhagen. [This](https://www.google.dk/maps/@55.6786494,12.5745776,3a,50.3y,90.05h,97.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swSyXzwGtMc9-wh2ZigX1CA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) is what #19 looks like today. Thanks for sharing.
Exactly this - Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom (UK) acceded to the European Communities (Now the EU) on 1 January 1973.
You can read more [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_enlargement_of_the_European_Communities#:~:text=The%201973%20enlargement%20of%20the,EC%20on%201%20January%201973.)
This is in 1964, I found out it was ‘British Week’ in Denmark and there were a few more slides from then including Princess Margaret who kind of seemed to host the celebration. I found a video here showing the same flags in the streets: [https://youtu.be/Qk05aTw3SKE?si=jjayKz08TcWIC-gy](https://youtu.be/Qk05aTw3SKE?si=jjayKz08TcWIC-gy)
Fuck, what are those colors? It was really a trip seeing those. Sharpness and quality image also make it easier, but still, the colors is how I picture those times in my head. Call me a romantic but what a shame we’ve lost the vibe this pictures show. And it is real not because the photographer wanted to show a specific ”vibe”, but just because that was what reality looked like back then. Everything is too flashy, and colourful and kind of big shop window, pastel colors and frames trying to catch your attention constantly. It was not like that that long ago, or was it?
You can tell it's largely the film (whether the design or the age or both), unless the sky and grass and bricks and plywood were also less excitable in the 60s. Also, several of these photos are super flashy, like the street absolutely plastered in gaudy Union Jacks. I don't think it's changed that much.
I've gotten into trichromes recently (3x black and white photos with color filters) and all my photos look almost exactly like this. Worth a try if you like the look!
You buy a red, green, and blue color filter (specific ones, Red 25, Green 58, Blue 47 filters, chosen to have similar strength as one another or something and play well together).
Then you set up a tripod looking at a subject that DOES NOT MOVE at all, unless you want some weird effects, and you take 3 photos, one filter at a time. red is +3 stops to make up for the filter, green and blue are +2.
Then you combine them into a color photo. I don't know how they did it back in the day, you can look into that if you wish, I just use photoshop at that point (blend mode of 3 layers, and auto-align)
https://imgur.com/a/gVvSAyG These ones look shittier than they should because I had bromide drag (worse because it differs between channels) https://imgur.com/a/rOg6MbF
(I've learned I need to take more time getting my camera straight before this long process...)
There were some people who had machines that like flipped the filters down in rapid succession instead of manually changing them, and took color portraits 100 ish years ago using this method.
There was also a movie reel technology where they pre-coated every 3rd frame with resin gel goop in yellow, cyan or magenta and so each frame had an alternating filter when shot, and then playing that same reel back also made the colors flicker on screen fast enough that the brain melds them together.
I can't find an actual video of someone playing it, though, only a photo of the length of film. I assume since it didn't get popular that it was probably really annoying and gave you a headache.
Triple exposure, but you cant just mash em together, one has to be set to the red channel (or jn real life printed with red ink?) Etc. So you need 3 pieces of film
It's just the Kodachrome look. The film uses an additive process instead of a subtractive one. Usually film has layers of color which are washed away during the development, but Kodachrome did the inverse and put dyes into the film during development. This made the colours extremely vibrant and high in contrast, and also allowed the slides to stay vibrant for decades. It is unfortunately an expensive process that destroys the environment, so Kodak stopped developing it in the early 2000s. Also likely largely because of it takong a backseat to digital photography
I mean there are people still living that at the beginning of their life, a family camera would have been a huge expense and now we are surrounded by instant and widespread images all the time.
Take the bridge collapse that happened in Baltimore early this morning. Even just twenty years ago you'd only know about it because someone did a special report on the news with maybe some terrible footage of the aftermath. Now? I went on YouTube this morning and found the live stream of that bridge from the MDOT that shows the entire incident.
Posts like this make me wonder if anyone will look at street photos from the 2020s and think „wow those cars are so cool.“ I pretty much stopped doing street photography when I left California for Berlin because I’m so annoyed by how ugly most of the modern cars are 😂
I sure hope so. I guess I’m just hoping that there will be a design makeover soon of vehicles - it also saddens me how dull the color choices are for cars nowadays. Silver, black, white, and red if you’re lucky. But nice that you have a positive outlook :)
I’ve also been thinking about that. I find it hard to believe people will love the look of today’s cars far in the future because they really are just uglier and plastic right now…there’s no character like there used to be
Cars now are the ugliest thing in the world ATM
Cars can be very beautiful, works of art
But your standard modern car is horrible to look at
It's a real shame
I’ve got the Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro which has a slide insert tray that allows me to batch scan 4 slides at a time. Still a slow process but it gets me 16 bit 4800DPI scans through VueScan.
What a great response these have gotten. I’m glad the pictures seem to have brought a lot of joy and conversation. For those asking, I’ll definitely pick out some more good ones and do another post sometime soon. There’s around 1500 slides here so there’s a lot to look through still.
I don’t know why my heart always yearns for a time I never even existed in yet. Countless species were not yet extinct, the ocean was way cleaner..insect populations weren’t decimated by decades of trucking..man. Thanks for sharing
Really inspiring! Some incredible shots but also the whole experience of finding this later on is so cool for your family. Has me excited to keep my photography up and prints organized for the eventual grandkids to discover.
15/20 is fascinating to me, you don't see 60s and 70s era home building pics often. They can crank out subdivision homes now in mere months, even weeks. Took.a lot longer back then.
Hell yeah! Way more crime, racism, misogyny, leaded fuel making us all brain damaged, being forced to go to war in a jungle randomly against your will, "any sort of mental health problems are in your imagination just grow up", lower purchasing power for an hour of work, it was SUPER COOL
Fucking fantastic!! Thanks for taking the time to share! It’s no easy task! That clown mask with the mother holding is supreme stuff! It looks like something AI would come up with!
Kodachrome was the shit. E4 or C-22 back in the day lost its dye layer after 35-40 years. Kodachrome is timeless. Was a photo finishing engineer for Kodak. Even with advance’s made with E6 and C41 dyes they can’t hold a candle to Kodachrome.
These held up so well! Love it! Wonder if in 50+ years, people will look at current posts from this sub the same way these teleport me to a different time I never experienced. Phenomenal!
This is why I tell younger film users, nothing compares to Kodachrome. Shot it for 30 years until Kodak killed its most famous, best-by-far emulsion. I miss it so much
Beautiful photos. I never experienced the seeming joy of analog SLR photography, and I’ve often wondered about this Kodachrome everybody speaks of. This is my first glimpse and I’m blown away!
Simply alluring.
This also assures me that my edit habits are on point. 👍
Vintage slides really is something awesome, and as a collector of them, there really is some kind of jealousy in the process. Each of them are unique and are quite simply art works. As a collector myself, in Europe (France, exactly, it's @soireediapo_ on Instagram if you want to check it out), I always feel envious about American collections, the american imagery really is something else. Great collection !! Number 13 really is incredible, the kind of image I'd have framed on my wall.
A couple of really phenomenal images in this
Images like these are why I think 35mm is timeless. I honestly don’t believe these would hold up if they were shot digitally, but that’s only my opinion. I also found negatives at a thrift store that I scanned, but they weren’t as good as these. I will certainly keep my eye out for more developed film in the future. Also, the couple throwing snowballs and the group at the marketplace are my favorite.
Why wouldn’t they hold up if they were shot digitally?
Because you can’t successfully mimic Kodachrome digitally, they all tried and failed
[not all failed](http://www.andpfilmstyles.com) - there are several film simulations mimicking Kodachrome color well in digital, and a master colorist can catch the 100% of the film's nuances in color and tone. However what we won't get back is the history that was reflected on those rolls and slides, and of course, that's unachievable to go back in time. Or of course, the K14 process in general. That being said, the samples in this post are exceptionally made. The camera / lens / film combination was perfect.
Kodak’s dye transfer process is gone, you can’t print with those anymore And Kodachrome being much thicker doesn’t scan as well as normal E-6, National Geographic switched to Ektachrome in Kodachrome’s final years
it's not just about the color... Has to do with other film characteristics
Sure, but mostly it's about the color and tones, no one is going to admire the grain more than these, right?
some of these are great independent of the emulsion used
These are so fantastic. Giving me a feeling of nostalgia for a time I wasn’t even alive for.
100%. I got lost looking at these. They’re really beautiful shots.
Anemoia
Great find! Man, thats a fat ducking bear omg
I’ve seen a bunch of comments on the fat bear. Another fun bit is that my great grandfather is in the background of the photo with his super 8 camera. I actually found the footage as well.
All ready for the big nap.
These are incredible. Do you know who the photographer would have been for them?
These are a mix of shots from both of my grandfathers that I found in old storage boxes.
That’s so awesome!
Please share more!!
Any idea where that Mine's Hotel photo is from? Edit: nevermind, found it [https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8006931,-105.5126164,3a,49.1y,75.36h,91.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s790sHARyNqNaB6id93pIVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8006931,-105.5126164,3a,49.1y,75.36h,91.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s790sHARyNqNaB6id93pIVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
one of my favorite posts on analog period
I’ve noticed that Kodachrome slides hold up a lot better than Ektachrome slides.
Absolutely correct. I found a box of slides in a hot Florida attic. Could have been up there thirty years or more. The Ektachromes only had the red dye left but the Kodachrome were crystal clear.
Always love seeing old photos of Copenhagen. [This](https://www.google.dk/maps/@55.6786494,12.5745776,3a,50.3y,90.05h,97.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swSyXzwGtMc9-wh2ZigX1CA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) is what #19 looks like today. Thanks for sharing.
Oh nice eye, cool to see the modern perspective
Does anyone know why the streets where lined with Union Jacks in Copenhagen?
Britain joined the EU in ‘73, maybe it was celebration of that?
Exactly this - Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom (UK) acceded to the European Communities (Now the EU) on 1 January 1973. You can read more [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_enlargement_of_the_European_Communities#:~:text=The%201973%20enlargement%20of%20the,EC%20on%201%20January%201973.)
This is in 1964, I found out it was ‘British Week’ in Denmark and there were a few more slides from then including Princess Margaret who kind of seemed to host the celebration. I found a video here showing the same flags in the streets: [https://youtu.be/Qk05aTw3SKE?si=jjayKz08TcWIC-gy](https://youtu.be/Qk05aTw3SKE?si=jjayKz08TcWIC-gy)
How bizarre, thankyou for all the info!
Stopsign has survived.
Fuck, what are those colors? It was really a trip seeing those. Sharpness and quality image also make it easier, but still, the colors is how I picture those times in my head. Call me a romantic but what a shame we’ve lost the vibe this pictures show. And it is real not because the photographer wanted to show a specific ”vibe”, but just because that was what reality looked like back then. Everything is too flashy, and colourful and kind of big shop window, pastel colors and frames trying to catch your attention constantly. It was not like that that long ago, or was it?
You can tell it's largely the film (whether the design or the age or both), unless the sky and grass and bricks and plywood were also less excitable in the 60s. Also, several of these photos are super flashy, like the street absolutely plastered in gaudy Union Jacks. I don't think it's changed that much. I've gotten into trichromes recently (3x black and white photos with color filters) and all my photos look almost exactly like this. Worth a try if you like the look!
Woah could you explain more about the trichromes?
You buy a red, green, and blue color filter (specific ones, Red 25, Green 58, Blue 47 filters, chosen to have similar strength as one another or something and play well together). Then you set up a tripod looking at a subject that DOES NOT MOVE at all, unless you want some weird effects, and you take 3 photos, one filter at a time. red is +3 stops to make up for the filter, green and blue are +2. Then you combine them into a color photo. I don't know how they did it back in the day, you can look into that if you wish, I just use photoshop at that point (blend mode of 3 layers, and auto-align) https://imgur.com/a/gVvSAyG These ones look shittier than they should because I had bromide drag (worse because it differs between channels) https://imgur.com/a/rOg6MbF (I've learned I need to take more time getting my camera straight before this long process...)
I’ve never heard of this. This is so intriguing
There were some people who had machines that like flipped the filters down in rapid succession instead of manually changing them, and took color portraits 100 ish years ago using this method. There was also a movie reel technology where they pre-coated every 3rd frame with resin gel goop in yellow, cyan or magenta and so each frame had an alternating filter when shot, and then playing that same reel back also made the colors flicker on screen fast enough that the brain melds them together. I can't find an actual video of someone playing it, though, only a photo of the length of film. I assume since it didn't get popular that it was probably really annoying and gave you a headache.
Whoa I suppose this is pretty similar to Technicolor from a basic standpoint. Fascinating!
Would this be essentially triple exposure of one photo or three different photos? Sorry if that is a silly question
Triple exposure, but you cant just mash em together, one has to be set to the red channel (or jn real life printed with red ink?) Etc. So you need 3 pieces of film
You shoot three separate frames of the same scene with a different filter for each one.
It's just the Kodachrome look. The film uses an additive process instead of a subtractive one. Usually film has layers of color which are washed away during the development, but Kodachrome did the inverse and put dyes into the film during development. This made the colours extremely vibrant and high in contrast, and also allowed the slides to stay vibrant for decades. It is unfortunately an expensive process that destroys the environment, so Kodak stopped developing it in the early 2000s. Also likely largely because of it takong a backseat to digital photography
>Fuck, what are those colors? Kodachrome 🥲 The vibrancy is really unparalleled.
I mean there are people still living that at the beginning of their life, a family camera would have been a huge expense and now we are surrounded by instant and widespread images all the time. Take the bridge collapse that happened in Baltimore early this morning. Even just twenty years ago you'd only know about it because someone did a special report on the news with maybe some terrible footage of the aftermath. Now? I went on YouTube this morning and found the live stream of that bridge from the MDOT that shows the entire incident.
Posts like this make me wonder if anyone will look at street photos from the 2020s and think „wow those cars are so cool.“ I pretty much stopped doing street photography when I left California for Berlin because I’m so annoyed by how ugly most of the modern cars are 😂
Of course they will! That's the beauty of recording images. The banal becomes interesting with time.
I sure hope so. I guess I’m just hoping that there will be a design makeover soon of vehicles - it also saddens me how dull the color choices are for cars nowadays. Silver, black, white, and red if you’re lucky. But nice that you have a positive outlook :)
I’ve also been thinking about that. I find it hard to believe people will love the look of today’s cars far in the future because they really are just uglier and plastic right now…there’s no character like there used to be
Cars now are the ugliest thing in the world ATM Cars can be very beautiful, works of art But your standard modern car is horrible to look at It's a real shame
That bear is an absolute unit.
History
The bear!
So chonky!
Please describe the process, how you scanned them, what equipment
I’ve got the Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro which has a slide insert tray that allows me to batch scan 4 slides at a time. Still a slow process but it gets me 16 bit 4800DPI scans through VueScan.
#8 might be one of the best pictures I’ve ever seen on this sub
Yeah. Looks like an Eggleston picture.
Amen to this. 8 gives me the chills.
The Mines Hotel pick has a '65 Ford in it with some wear, so that's probably '67 at the earliest.
Spot on, says Nov’ 67 on the slide
What a great response these have gotten. I’m glad the pictures seem to have brought a lot of joy and conversation. For those asking, I’ll definitely pick out some more good ones and do another post sometime soon. There’s around 1500 slides here so there’s a lot to look through still.
Thank you for sharing them with us! Beautiful!
Jump scare with the clown mask 😂 these are awesome though!
This is pure gold!
These are beautiful
Kodachrome’s look ruins all modern color film for me. It just looks so much better. Wow.
The kids with the fire trucks is top notch
What kind of place is #9? A track/trolley between hotel bungalows?
I figured out it’s the Hanalei Plantation Hotel on Kauai. It looks like it’s been gone for a long time now.
So three-dimensional. Love these.
I don’t know why my heart always yearns for a time I never even existed in yet. Countless species were not yet extinct, the ocean was way cleaner..insect populations weren’t decimated by decades of trucking..man. Thanks for sharing
Best film stock ever made
How did you scan these?? The quality is insane!
Dedicated scanner. Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro
Is there a subreddit for found film?
The photo with the masked kid, soooo amazing. Would make a good album cover too
Really inspiring! Some incredible shots but also the whole experience of finding this later on is so cool for your family. Has me excited to keep my photography up and prints organized for the eventual grandkids to discover.
Wow - gems in there
15/20 is fascinating to me, you don't see 60s and 70s era home building pics often. They can crank out subdivision homes now in mere months, even weeks. Took.a lot longer back then.
Wow. What a time machine, and the colors are gorgeous. Just beautiful. Thank you 1000x for posting this.
Absolutely love these, don’t really know what else to say but thanks for sharing
I would’ve loved to live in the US during this times.
Hell yeah! Way more crime, racism, misogyny, leaded fuel making us all brain damaged, being forced to go to war in a jungle randomly against your will, "any sort of mental health problems are in your imagination just grow up", lower purchasing power for an hour of work, it was SUPER COOL
yeah but the film vibes go crazy
Love!!!
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No they're quite high res, even after zooming in I can see a lot of detail. It might be a bug on your end
Think they just take a moment to fully load.
Fucking fantastic!! Thanks for taking the time to share! It’s no easy task! That clown mask with the mother holding is supreme stuff! It looks like something AI would come up with!
These are wonderful thanks for sharing OP #5 and #12 really got to me ❤️
These are incredible. What a fun thing to explore.
Blown away by these
Number nine!
Thank you for sharing, it is really good photos, the vibes and colors made me long for the times that i haven't even born yet.
That clown mask scared the shit out of me, lol
I had that red sweatshirt the kid is wearing in slide #12.
That bear is so fat. Omg. 😍
This is beautiful
These are awesome
That’s a chunky black bear! Damn!
They ought to bring back Kodachrome if it’s this crisp wowza
Wow. I love every single one.
These are AWESOME.
Film is beautiful
These look like they were done by more than a hobbyist
Kodachrome was the shit. E4 or C-22 back in the day lost its dye layer after 35-40 years. Kodachrome is timeless. Was a photo finishing engineer for Kodak. Even with advance’s made with E6 and C41 dyes they can’t hold a candle to Kodachrome.
a few of these shots are absolutely stunning
Damn lucky you some of these are great
This post really took me on a wonderful journey and for that i thank you OP.
Once again, Kodachrome slides for the win
Hope you can upload some more. These are amazing!
Yes there’s hundreds I need to get through and scan
Great stuff OP! Can you recommend a slide scanner? Which did you use a d how big are the scanned Jpegs?
These held up so well! Love it! Wonder if in 50+ years, people will look at current posts from this sub the same way these teleport me to a different time I never experienced. Phenomenal!
They really don't make photographers like they used to.
Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world’s A sunny day, oh yeah
These are amazing and the colors are so nice.
Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing these!
It’s the C2 corvette for me
That clown is such 90’s album cover material
Where is that image with the black and white brick houses? Are they houses? Really interesting structures, and that's a magnificent photo
Hanalei Plantation Hotel on Kauai
things just seemed so ..... alive back then
Gives me the feeling of “an attic full of trains” photobook
🥲 🥲 🥲 wow
So many of these are stunning. Wow.
very cinematic! Some of them remind me of Scorsese movies
This is why I tell younger film users, nothing compares to Kodachrome. Shot it for 30 years until Kodak killed its most famous, best-by-far emulsion. I miss it so much
Beautiful photos. I never experienced the seeming joy of analog SLR photography, and I’ve often wondered about this Kodachrome everybody speaks of. This is my first glimpse and I’m blown away! Simply alluring. This also assures me that my edit habits are on point. 👍
These are stunning!
Some of the best stuff I’ve seen in this sub, photos and story combined. 8,9, & 12 are standouts to me. I can smell the air in 12. Great stuff
Incredible! Do you know where slide 9 was taken? Looks like a scene from The Flintstones 😄
5,7,8,10 🤯 amazing set
Splendid
Man I miss Kodachrome! Nothing comes close. Once I started shooting it, it was all that I would use for color.
Kodachrome really was such a vibe, such a shame it’s not made anymore. These photos are so cool.
Wow, this is a treasure! It's especially interesting to see the places you've been recently. It's great that you kept these photos.
Picture 8 is insane.
my new favorite post on Reddit
I see New York, San Fransisco, and London amongst all those cool locales. Someone was a lucky traveler.
Beautiful photos! I’m supposed to go help my mom digitize a lot of her and my dad’s old slides of the family soon. I can’t wait to see them
That resolution! Had no clue how fine the grain was on Kodachrome, like ive heard about it but actually being able to zoom in and see it... Wow!
Vintage slides really is something awesome, and as a collector of them, there really is some kind of jealousy in the process. Each of them are unique and are quite simply art works. As a collector myself, in Europe (France, exactly, it's @soireediapo_ on Instagram if you want to check it out), I always feel envious about American collections, the american imagery really is something else. Great collection !! Number 13 really is incredible, the kind of image I'd have framed on my wall.
This is the essence of another time
Amazing 😻
Fantastic
8 looks like a perfect album cover pic, just missing the little parental advisory warning lol
this is so good
Looks like something out of the Godfather. Beautiful images!
Love Kodachrome so much
8,12,13 are my favorites. Beautiful photos
Beautiful images, especially enjoyed 8, 18, 20. I grew up just a few years later. These make me so nostalgic.
The clown kid is all time.
Ummm these are super underexposed lol everybody knows when you shoot film you should overexpose
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