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Expired Kodachrome 200. Expiry 1992. Exposed in 2009. Developed in 2010.

Heavy grain and base fog, color shift from film condition. Scanned as raw data in Vuescan on a Epson V500 and process completely in Lightroom.

Photo of my son swinging at the park. He is getting so big.

Final frame for the night from the evening scanning workflow development. I loved Kodachrome, but it is really a bitch to scan. So far VueScan raw DNG has produced the best data for me to manipulate in Lightroom. More later. Time to sleep.

Another scan from the old roll of Kodachrome 25.

Minolta X-700, 50mm f/1.4, Scanned with Epson V500 with VueScan 9. Scanned directly to DNG as raw scanner data. Edited directly in Lighroom to spot and adjust white balance to compensate for color shifting.

Playing around with scanning some really old, expired Kodachrome. I shot this two years ago on my Minolta X-700 using some old Kodachrome 25 that expired in 1992. The age led to a fair magenta color cast and possibly strengthened the grain some. Testing out VueScan 9 and scanning directly to DNG with "RAW" scanner data. Not the same as true digital RAW, but still seems to work much better in Lightroom 4 than 48-bit TIFF files. Not quite happy with the process yet, but Kodachrome is renowned to be a PITA to scan. And the age effects on the slide didn't help the quality either. But the image looks 200% better projected, even with the magenta cast.

Image is of my father doing what he seems to like the best, gardening.

Portra 160 NC