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Subject: [Leica] Kodachrome is back...
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Christopher Crawford)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:08:12 -0400
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Problem is VSCO only sells their presets for mobile devices now. They 
discontinued the version that was a lightroom plugin.

Really, those presets all suck anyway. They NEVER look like real film and 
usually have crappy color and gradation. I get far better results just 
processing my RAW files in LR with no presets or plugins. I have tried VSCO 
(back when it was sold as a LR plugin) and a few other film-simulation 
plugins. Didn't like any of them.


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?On 9/15/20, 6:31 PM, "LUG on behalf of Richard Man" 
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of 
richard at richardman.photo> wrote:

    OK, this is the type of stubbornness that I appreciate.
    
    Background: Kodachrome, with such vibrant colors that Paul Simon even 
wrote
    a song about it. It was created by "God and Man" (Leopold Godowsky Jr. 
and
    Leopold Mannes) in the 1930s. SADLY, I did not take many Kodachrome 
photos
    myself.
    
    The process went kaput when the last lab shut down and it's not a process
    that people can just do at home, unlike other slide films. So when a
    company that sells digital presets that simulate film-look wanted to
    release a Kodachrome preset, they just asked people to send in their
    Kodachrome slides.
    
    No, wait, they spent two years painstakingly recreated the Kodachrome
    development process and chemicals.
    
    I APPROVE OF THIS STUBBORNNESS / FOOLISHNESS. I mean, we went to the Moon
    because it is not easy.
    
    
https://petapixel.com/2020/09/15/vsco-went-full-macgyver-to-create-an-authentic-kodachome-film-simulation
    
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