Thanks for the info (I only used B&W film and learned to process that).
Boy -- the stuff I learn here! Just continually astounded at the depth and breadth of knowledge in this community!
Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth
>Well, I knew people who were photography majors in college, and I'm pretty sure that at least some of them were doing photos in color,<
I'm sure they were, and my answer assumes that. It just wasn't likely to have been Kodachrome. It would have been the films I referred to as "other color films." (Kodachrome is not a generic term for color film. It is a specific film that produces transparencies, or slides, by a process not used for any other film. There are other color trans
@Ceilidh -- Well, I knew people who were photography majors in college, and I'm pretty sure that at least some of them were doing photos in color, not just B&W like I learned to process. Whether they were doing the processing of the film themselves in one of the darkrooms, or sending their stuff out to be processed commercially? That I don't actually know, but had always assumed that they were processing their own film.
Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth
ETA: And of course
Kodachrome 25 was the most accurate film for clinical photography and was used by dermatologists everywhere. I got magnificent results with a Nikon F2 and a MicroNikkor 60 mm lens, using a manually calibrated small flash on a bracket. I wish there were a filter called "Kodachrome 25 color balance" on my iPhone camera.
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