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What is special about Kodachrome

Kodachrome has a few key features that distinguishes it from all the other slide films available on the market. Due to its special layer technique, the develeopment results in a completely different character of the final slide. Kodachrome has three black and white layers that record images of the red, blue and green spectrum. The layers are classical silver halide emulsions. The colour itself isn't contained in the layers but is being added during the K-14 process.

Colours are not too bright and overrated. Unlike other slide films (Fuji) it does not tend to blue or green but rather to a red-brown which makes it perfectly useful in bad weather or days which are completely overcast. Nevertheless it's a very sharp and precise film which is as sharp as the Fuji Velvia.

The film was originally created by KODAK USA in the 1936 and gave the National Geographic Magazine its typical appearance during the following decades.

Kodachrome is the oldest slide film available for professional and non-commercial photographers and therefore too old to be developed in the standardized E-6 process. Today only a few Kodak labs still process the Kodachrome in K-14, in Middle Europe Kodak Lausanne / Switzerland is responsible for all the processing. So beware of the envelope included in every Kodachrome package to send it to its appropriate destination for developing.

The Kodachrome family:
Kodachrome slide film for 35mm cameras is available in three different speed settings: Kodachrome 25, Kodachrome 64 and Kodachrome 200.

 

Technical features can be taken directly from KODAK
or in German from the Swiss Homepage (Text / PDF)

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