Kodachrome vs E-6 grain

[Derek Gee <73157.2172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm gonna take Gary's flame bait...
>Warning! Flame bait to follow:
>I would take the statement about Kodachrome grain with more than a grain of 
>salt. Years ago, that was true, but there are now many E6 films that have 
>finer grain and are sharper than Kodachrome. Kodachrome (at least in its ASA 
>64 form) is in serious need of some R&D from Kodak. Of course it _does_ last 
>until all of us in this group are no longer here to look at it  :-)

Are you sure about E-6 films having finer grain?  I seem to recall a recent
photo magazine (Photographic? maybe) that had printed a comparison of slide
films along with their RMS grain rating.  I'm going by memory here, but 
there was NO film listed with a better grain than Kodachrome 25 and Velvia
was tied with Kodachrome 64.  As we should all know by now, Kodachrome has
better dark storage characteristics while E-6 has better projection
characteristics.  So shoot Kodachrome and dupe to E-6 if you're concern
about archivability.
                                       Derek Gee 


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