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The current issue of American Photo magazine has a feature on Steve McCurry shooting the last roll of Kodachrome. In the article they mention that he used a D3x to shoot test images before committing those last precious frames. I'm wondering if there is a suitable picture style that could be used as a proxy for the Kodachrome look in-camera. Alternatively could someone point me to Lightroom develop presets that simulate this look?

Thanks much.


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Nik Software has Color Efex Pro which has a Kodachrome setting. Actually it has about 20 different films in there that you can emulate. Has various sliders to change the look too.

I use Color Efex Pro in Capture NX2, but I think that they make it as a Photopshop plug-in as well.

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Now you have my attention :-)

How do you use Color Efex Pro in NX2? A plug in or stand alone and how can you open Color Efex from NX2?
Catallaxy said:
Nik Software has Color Efex Pro which has a Kodachrome setting. Actually it has about 20 different films in there that you can emulate. Has various sliders to change the look too.

I use Color Efex Pro in Capture NX2, but I think that they make it as a Photopshop plug-in as well.

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Here is a site with a collection of custom Nikon Picture Control files for the D700/300 series cameras, and they can be loaded into Capture NX2:

http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/photography/NIKON/CUSTOMPC/

Read the "readme.txt" for installation instructions. The Kodak profiles are pretty close, but only close :-(

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Steve Bingham said:
A PS CS5 plug-in.

http://www.niksoftware.com/colorefexpro/usa/entry.php
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Or better yet for NX2, gives you the benefit of working non-destructively, directly on the RAW file without having to save a a large TIFF.

It works as any other adjustments in NX2, just saves the settings from Color Efex you have applied as settings without affecting the RAW file itself. You can save several versions (edits) in the same NEF with minimal; file size increase and completely non destructive and reversible/ adjustable edits.

http://www.niksoftware.com/cepnx/usa/entry.php

I hope NIK would make their whole family of software for Capture NX2.
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Oscarroos said:
Now you have my attention :-)

How do you use Color Efex Pro in NX2? A plug in or stand alone and how can you open Color Efex from NX2?
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You need the version of Color EFex 3 for Capture NX2. The advantage is that the edits are completely no-destructive and reversible/adjustable in the RAW file itself, without saving a separate TIFF. Color EFex 3 works exactly as any other adjustment in- NX2 and many edits of the same NEF can be saved in one file.

http://www.niksoftware.com/cepnx/usa/entry.php
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Wasn't aware they had one. Thank you. Hope Silver EFex also has a NX2 version and easy to check.

Starting to put together what I need to get serious about PP. Now I need to replace my aging Dell. Are you using a Window PC or Mac? Many Pros and cons for each.
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Oscarroos said:
Now you have my attention :-)

How do you use Color Efex Pro in NX2? A plug in or stand alone and how can you open Color Efex from NX2?
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You need the version of Color EFex 3 for Capture NX2. The advantage is that the edits are completely no-destructive and reversible/adjustable in the RAW file itself, without saving a separate TIFF. Color EFex 3 works exactly as any other adjustment in- NX2 and many edits of the same NEF can be saved in one file.

http://www.niksoftware.com/cepnx/usa/entry.php
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Kind regards
Kaj
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WSSA member

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.- Elliott Erwitt
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I am currently editing some 1,300 rolls of Kodachrome for my book. I have looked all of these emulations and they simply lack the luminance and subtle gradations of real Kodachrome, even after scanned.

So Kodachrome is done, not to be emulated and that is the way it should be.
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JayMitch said:
The current issue of American Photo magazine has a feature on Steve McCurry
shooting the last roll of Kodachrome.
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I wish it would be made clear as crystal that he shot the last roll made , not the very last roll. He also shot it well before the line was shut down on the 18th of January of this year. Dwayne Steinle shot the last roll to ever go through the machine and I shot the last roll to ever be shot before the lab shut down.

And there was not a DSLR in my kit for nearly two years, shot the last roll coming out of the machine on Tri-X souped as slide..:-)

Just a friendly FYI...

And I love the Robert Deniro and Malawi portraits best, there will never be another Kodachrome...
 
slides on a light table or projected have an oder of magnitude higher luminance value between blacks and highlights - which is why slides of all film types look so special - you can emulate all day but in the end, its the total analog "system" that was (and still is) so terrific.....

my Mom Dad in 1948: Kodachrome asa 12



 
I never liked Kodachrome, too much magenta, way too cool of color balance, much prefer provia for people, and velvia for landscapes.
 
F-onefour said:
I never liked Kodachrome, too much magenta, way too cool of color balance, much prefer provia for people, and velvia for landscapes.
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Sounds like you need a primer on using filters with film :-)

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