Kodak Kodachrome 64 Film (Daylight) - 36 Exposure

What can one say that hasn't already been said?

For decades the gold standard in slide photography, and only in the last decade given by Fuji Velvia 50 a run for its money, K64 is like a Porsche 911 (air-cooled, friend, not the current water-cooled bathtub on wheels) or good macaroni and cheese--often replicated but never duplicated.

Grab some, shoot some, enjoy projecting your images on the big screen (just try that with digital--HAH!) and wonder why you ever left film for soul-less bits and pixels.

Kodak's Kodachrome has really stood the test of time and is simply the best film that one can purchase. It blows Fujichrome out of the water in most applications! If you have never tried Kodachrome, I urge you to pick some up at your photography store and give it a try; you will be amazed!

Kodachrome 64 is a very good film for outdoor use landscapes and wildlife. This film gives great defination and depth of field. I would like to see more of the lower speed films eaiser to find they do so much better in my opinion with color defination and sharpness especialy when the picture is inlarged. I would like some 50 ASA or lower film if I could find it. Iguess I'm just old fashon it's hard to convince me higher ASA film is as good for the things I do the most of. It has been nice to use this film and I am happy with the results. If your shooting 35mm and doing outdoors shooting try some and see for yourself the quality I love it.

Others have already given wonderful reviews for the product itself. I'm posting this as it seems the only way to alert you that when Adorama has a price that's several dollars less than anyone else (as they do at the moment I'm writing this, with a price of under $5), it's because what they're selling off is "short dated film". You can see that by doing to Adorama's own website; the "short dated" K64 that have there is the only (non-pro) K64 that you can find on their site, and it's similarly highly reduced in price.

At this moment, their "short dated" film is shown as expiring 5/2007. Now, they've kept in freezers, so if you at least refrigirate it (until you use it), you can use it somewhat beyond it's expiration date. Still, I feel you should know when you're getting "short dated" film, and apparently Amazon's setup with Adoroma doesn't support making that clear.

I've been shooting Kodachrome 64 since about 1983, so I guess that I'm a fairly "new" user. When I first became addicted to the 35mm SLR photography hobby, I started out with prints, just like everybody else. Since I wasn't doing my own darkroom work, I quickly became disenchanted with the wide variance of quality and color reproduction that prints offered. Have you ever tried to take a properly exposed picture of a night scene with a moon in the background, and then have it printed so that it doesn't come out looking like a light bulb in a gray soup? You know what I'm talking about. Plus, I was displeased with the resolution that prints seemed to offer.

After hearing and reading about Kodachrome 64, I tried a roll of it, and I haven't looked back. Like others here, I was absolutely flabbergasted at the fine grain, detail, and color saturation that I saw. This is what photography is all about. This film allows a photographer to truly stretch his limits and try to develop his skills to their fullest potential. When he does things right, he is richly rewarded by what he sees. I have Kodachrome 64 slides in my library that I will cherish until the day that I die.

While I've also gone digital within the past few years, I keep my Nikon gear and some Kodachrome 64 on hand for those, "I really want to keep this and have it turn out great" shots. Plus, there's still something reassuring about having a moment in time that I can hold in my hand, rather than trapped inside a computer as a bunch of 1's and 0's.

I hope that they never stop making this film.