The final four rolls of Kodachrome: December 25, 2010

The roll: Kodachrome 64, purchased on eBay.  It was in my freezer until it was time to shoot.

The date: December 25, 2010.  Christmas Day.

The camera: Kiev 19.

The lens: Nikon 300mm f/4.5 telephoto lens, nicknamed the “Rachel.”

Time to shoot.

I had a roll of Kodachrome 200 in the freezer, but I chose to not put the film in the camera, because it came from the last batch of 200 that possessed a nasty magenta-shift upon final development.  I needed photographs that would contain the best color that Kodachrome could offer, and I couldn’t in good conscience take a chance that my last photographs would have a bad color shift – especially a shift that I didn’t intentionally want to capture.

So I used one of my two remaining rolls of Kodachrome 64 for Christmas Day.  For this roll, I attached my heavy Nikkor 50-300mm manual-focus telephoto lens – a lens I nicknamed the “Rachel,” after the RPI college student who sold it to me in 2009 – and went out for a shoot.

Started off with the Empire State Plaza – in an angle I always wanted to get in Kodachrome at night, but kept losing out to reciprocity failure.  Don’t ask me to explain reciprocity failure.  The TU’s been on my case about long blog posts anyways.

A frozen creek along the Port of Albany.

This marquee from an old bowling alley on the corner of First and Elizabeth in Albany’s South End.

The steeple at the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle in Delmar.

Hey look, here’s a long-lost ghost sign in Albany – right on the corner of Madison and South Pearl. How did I ever miss this one?

Kodachrome 64 roll finished.  One roll left to shoot.