[Swift1]

Nice. I’ve been converting my dads slides from Nigeria. Most are Kodachrome, some are Ektachrome. It makes me wish I had had a chance to try Kodachrome. The colors are really nice on them.

This is amazing. I am scanning my grandfather's archive and I can tell you that Soviet film from 1958 does not look ANYTHING like THAT.

Kodachrome is pretty amazing film.
Here's another of my grandfather's slides from Peru, 1958.

[Eyewanders]

My mom brought some of my grandfather's slides over, and we've been scanning some of them.
This is Kodachrome from 1958 while they were in Peru, taken with a Leica.

60 years later, your grandfather just won the internet.

[dsmithhfx]

[Moe49]

My mom brought some of my grandfather's slides over, and we've been scanning some of them.

I inherited my Great-Grand-Folks slides and home movies from the 1940s-1960s back around 12 years ago.
I had the movies transferred to DVD. It chokes me up still to see my Granny Mimi walking about and smiling on the TV screen (She passed away in 1968).

There were 596 slides, mostly Kodachrome. I scanned them all, and cleaned them up the best I could with the SW I had at the time. WHEW !!!
I stored a few of those scans in my PF album here:
Moe49's Album: Kodachrome slides 1950s - PentaxForums.com

Several of the slides were 1950s vacation photos taken in California, Arizona and Utah. The slides have inspired us to go visit those National Parks, too. We just visited Southern Utah for the 1st time this past April, seeing several of the same vistas presented in the 60 year old slides my Great Grand Parents left behind.

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[IgorZ]

I inherited my Great-Grand-Folks slides and home movies from the 1940s-1960s back around 12 years ago.
I had the movies transferred to DVD. It chokes me up still to see my Granny Mimi walking about and smiling on the TV screen (She passed away in 1968).

There were 596 slides, mostly Kodachrome. I scanned them all, and cleaned them up the best I could with the SW I had at the time. WHEW !!!
I stored a few of those scans in my PF album here:
Moe49's Album: Kodachrome slides 1950s - PentaxForums.com
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Nice photos! Thanks for sharing

[gofour3]

Soviet film from 1958 does not look ANYTHING like THAT.

In 1976 I went to the Hermitage Museum in Lenningrad/Saint Petersburg. Most museums back then used to sell slides of their major art works, as you could not take any photos inside the museum. So I bought a bunch of slides from the Hermitage gift shop.

My Kodachrome slides from that 1976 trip are all in perfect shape, however all the ones I bought in the museum had faded so badly that I had to chuck them. No clue what slide film it was, but unlike Kodachrome it degraded very quickly.

Phil.

[IgorZ]

In 1976 I went to the Hermitage Museum in Lenningrad/Saint Petersburg. Most museums back then used to sell slides of their major art works, as you could not take any photos inside the museum. So I bought a bunch of slides from the Hermitage gift shop.

My Kodachrome slides from that 1976 trip are all in perfect shape, however all the ones I bought in the museum had faded so badly that I had to chuck them. No clue what slide film it was, but unlike Kodachrome it degraded very quickly.

Phil.

Probably ORWO... That's the only slide film I remember. Not sure if Soviets made any. My grandfather has some slide film from the 70s. It is much better than the Soviet film, but nowhere near Kodachrome. The colours on his slides are a bit weird. Not sure if there was a colour shift or that's just the way they looked.

[Jellygeist]

Speaking of slides:





I like Provia. Hopefully I like Ektachrome since who knows how long Provia will be around for.

[g026r]

Probably ORWO... That's the only slide film I remember. Not sure if Soviets made any.

Svema definitely made some slide films. Most likely on equipment taken from Agfa as war reparations, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was originally similar to AgfaChrome.

I seem to recall seeing some shots someone once made on expired Tasma slide film so they must have made one as well, but I know nothing more about it.

[stevebrot]

Hillbillies

Love it! St Patrick as an Egyptian hillbilly


Steve

[stevebrot]

Kodachrome is pretty amazing film.
Here's another of my grandfather's slides from Peru, 1958.

Wow...

Equally amazing is to see Machu Picchu without its trampling burden of tourists.


Steve

[IgorZ]

Svema definitely made some slide films. Most likely on equipment taken from Agfa as war reparations, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was originally similar to AgfaChrome.

I seem to recall seeing some shots someone once made on expired Tasma slide film so they must have made one as well, but I know nothing more about it.

You are right, Svema did make slide film... Didn't know that!

[gofour3]

Probably ORWO... That's the only slide film I remember. Not sure if Soviets made any.

Svema definitely made some slide films. Most likely on equipment taken from Agfa as war reparations, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was originally similar to AgfaChrome.

Re-thinking this, the slides for sale in museums back then would have been "duplicates" from the original. So it would have been slide duplicating film, that film had a really low ASA and was completely different from regular consumer slide film. Probably why those slides faded so badly over the years.

Phil.

[cooltouch]

Colton, now I see where you get your talent from. Your grandparents were knocking stuff out of the park 60 years ago! Is their old Leica still around?

All I have to look back at -- and I'm not complaining, mind you -- is a small set of Kodachromes (and a larger group of B&W negs) my Dad shot with a relatively cheap, range focus Kodak Pony 135 while stationed in Korea during the Korean conflict. I distinctly recall him using the much better quality Kodak Signet 35 in the 50s and at least the early 60s but the family has no surviving slides, and very few print photos, from that time period. Here's one of the better ones from his Korea set:

My dad's CO, 23rd Quartermaster's Group

[dsmithhfx]