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Really enjoyed your perspective, Adrian! I totally agree that the Kodachrome slides are so beautiful and hold up on their own. After removing dust and digitizing, I tend to avoid any color adjustments once I have the photos in Lightroom. But I do try to pull out detail in the shadows/highlights by pulling them up/down, because it seems as though most scanning setups can't seem to grasp the same dynamic range of film without doing so. I will add that when I get around to the Ektachrome slides where all the cyan has faded away which result in that nasty red cast, color correction is a must.

The f series is my favorite and way underated.

Great video! Could you maybe share the specs for the adapter from this lens to sony e mount please? thanks!

Are there double stereo slides anymore ? 0:16

Great video. Very informative compared to the others I’ve been watching. Thank you!🙏

I see that someone commented that the ISO removes a lacquer finish on the slides. I have my doubts about this because I tried removing some lacquer from another project with ISO and it didn't effect the finish at all. Is there anyone who can confirm the report that the ISO damages the slides?

I have color slides my father took in Rome Italy in late 1945. I have been using some 6 inch pvc plumbing pipe as a support, setting the slide on a light table with a mask surrounding the slide and using my digital camera to take pictures of the slide and then crop out the cardboard frame. My device is a little more complex than that but it works and is very quick and very high quality compared to scanners. Cost less than $5. I am glad I can now clean the slides with Isopro. I worried about removing the dyes and just blew off the dust. I also have some shots he took in New Guinea in '46. I too am amazed at the survival of those images. Waikiki beach with NO HOTELS.

Geeze! Get to the point and stop painting a picture.

At the end Adrian says his father maybe took the photos bearing in mind the limited bandwidth of the medium. I don't think this would have been the case. They do fade with age. I have some from the 1960s and I remember them being super bright and colourful back then, now they have faded somewhat.

Unfortunately the focus points seemed to differ on the f4 comparison with the Pentax lens clearly being focused to a nearer distance than the Canon. Illustrated by the fall of in focus on the topplate detail on the Pentax example. I guess this lead to the perception that the Pentax was sharper at that apperture as one really notices the specs of grit and the highly machined edges of the lens mount first when viewing the image subject. I have the SMC Pentax-A f1.7 and can concurr wholeheartedly with you observations on its superior construction qualities compared to more modern 'equivalents'. A lovely lens to use. I also have the SMC Pentax-A 70-210 f4 (constant) macro zoom. Also a very fine lens IMO.

50mm 1.7 or 50mm 2.0 or 50mm 1.4? How would rate or compare these lenses?

I’m about to embark on the same project with 16 carousels and several random boxes full of my Dad’s slides from the 50’s through 70’s. Some of them are a wee bit grimy, so I’ll give it a go with some ISO. Thanks for the video and the inspiration.

It’s a Pentax M 50mm 1.7

Can a stamp be worth more attached to an old letter from the president.

Niice lens, true. It is the opposite of sigma 50mm art. But I like it because of faded pastel colours and softness. 1.4/1.2 are much more expensive, rare, harder to focus and heavier

Wonderful presentation. Thank you for sharing. I agree on so many levels.

really enjoyed this. best wishes from Scarborough, England. 🙂

Thank you. I learnt a lot.

I inherited my dad's old paparazzo slides from nyc in the 70s. They were pristine, I stupidly flew down to my house in PR with out protecting them properly, & I guess going through the airport ruined the images they're all spotted now. I was so upset with myself. They were perfect for decades before I got them

Dissapointing, just been luren away to another time waisting movie of a pensionada eager to have his face on CZcams. Where's the instruction on how to correct the color fade? That you should clean the slides even a child knows.

I have one of these. Haven't used it for years. That's about to change...

I love this video. 💙

I really enjoyed watching your video. Maybe think. I’ve was looking for something about the physical restoration but you made me think about a lot more

If you can find the PKA version of this Pentax M, all the info transmits to a Pentax DSLR camera body.

Hello quick question, where do I get those slides? I’ve been searching the internet for hours now and I can’t find anything on the slides itself. Is there a specific camera that needs to be used for those slides?

Really hate these reveals. Yes the vintage lenses are golden. Unfortunately some guy comes along and blabs and the prices jump for several months. Just cool it.

I've used one of these as my main lens for 15yrs! Absolutly amazing lens, at an amazing price!

My late Grandfather had a bunch of Kodachrome slides from the 50s and 60s that lasted perfectly preserved in his hall closet for decades. I got a hold of them and decided to keep them in a fireproof safe for extra peace of mind as well as safe keeping - Biggest mistake of my life... They got completely moldy and are close to being ruined now. Any suggestions guys?

Hi! Your seaweed video is very good. Can you change it from content made for children so I can save it to my playlist? Thanks a lot.

"FILM-UM" What a marroon! Isopropyl alcohol and such has destroyed the slides you TWIT! Kodachrome slides were LACQUERED as the final step in processing, so you removed that protective coating and those slides will now fade and grow fungus (I'm sure they have by now!) and the images will be gone. You have no IDEA what you are prattling on about. "Limited range" is ten thousand times what any digital medium can ever capture and that includes my $150,000 Capture One medium format digital camera.

Perhaps you could give us more detail regarding the back story to this. What were you wearing when you found the pictures.. What had you eaten recently? Your weight at the time you found these? Your marital status at the time?

Shooting video with this lens on a Sony NEX VG20, everything manual ..... absolutely beautiful cinematography especially when you want a really genuine reminiscence to the scene. I also love the slight flatness it can deliver (open up then add a de-clicked variable ND filter to control the F) , it contributes so much to the colour grading in post if you can't film in log (i.e. the VG20). Love it.

You nailed it. The beauty of Kodachrome is absolutely the connection between the composition, exposure and the film processing. Photograers intentionally pursued scenes with the colours that they knew would pop on Kodachrome. Like a Coka Cola sign or a street scene with signs or the famously photographed Golden Gate Exposition in 1939 - 1940.

Very enjoy this video

Thanks for this, I have 100 or so slides here..........I need that converter

Nine minutes about nothing. Waste of time.

Irish people all have one thing in common, they like to hear themselves speak.

My grandfather gave me his entire slide collection from years of shooting and ive been slowly scanning them for him, as someone who has shot a lot of film even till today, Kodachrome slides still suprise the hell out of me. No other film resists aging like kodachrome you can take a 50 year old slide like some ive scanned and it looks as good today as the day it was taken.

Thumb down because of jumping from f/1.8 to f/4. :(

Speaking as a photog of the era your Dad was shooting in, the choice of film was a part of the process. You wanted deeply saturated colors on the warm side you used Kodachrome, assuming you had the light necessary to shoot it. It had a fairly low ASA and so was not really suited to artificial lighting. It loved full sunlight. Nicely done!

I shot a lot of Kodachrome and Ektachrome back in the '80's. So, I have some boxes in storage in Canada for 20 years and I worried about how they faired over the years. 3 years ago, I was there and had a quick look, they were perfectly preserved! Now I want to get back there again and retrieve and scan them, I just have to get back there after Covid. (I live in Japan now). Amazing how well K-chrome holds up!

Very useful video. Are surgical spirits isopropyl alcohol? I’m working to organize my late father’s collection of about 5000 slides. Many are Kodakchrome, but many are Ectachrome. I don’t know the chemistry of cleaning slides. Do you have any experience with cleaning Ectachrome slide using the cleaners you employed?

The intro made me think of Alton Brown

Placed on the camera body that the Pentax lens was designed for and not going through a adapter ring, I would guarantee the Pentax lens would be on par if not better than the Cannon glass.

Kodachrome, supposedly the most resilient slide film as regards deterioration. Oddly though, the Kodachrome slides I have (and am currently scanning etc) from around 1979/80 are the ones that seem to have suffered the most. Quite a bit of grime on some of them similar to the landscape one you show but also mould, small specks that have grown outwards into the emulsion in a fine series of spidery 'crazed' lines pattern. They also seem to have faded and colour shifted more than other brands from the same period.

Just bought this lens .i paid 450 Canadian dollars for a modern day AF Pentax 50 mm and this vintage lens I paid around 50 dollars , it's in perfect condition and sharp as hell. Good video .

Good video! But how about shooting Kodachrome now? Can you scan it like any other 35mm film...? Straight from camera? I've got the possibility to get my hands on a bunch of these, but I know it's no longer developed, apart from B&W and that seems like a shame. So I'm researching about scanning them and getting that colour out :)

Did the surgical spirits work out ok for you? Have the exact same bottle of stuff (also in Ireland) and was afraid what sort of additives could be in it. Did you notice any residues?

Yeah I’ve been undergoing a Kodachrome project myself with a bit over 500 slides and it is quite interesting to see someone else’s live from 50+ years ago through a physical picture, I’ve also begun to start archiving old film mostly Kodachrome and if you’d like I’d love to archive them and digitize them at a very high resolution thank you for the content I really love the sentiment

I really enjoy your vids - where've you been? Start churning out content because you are bloody good and I am sure you could generate a large audience quickly. All the best.