WW II photos

4X5 Kodachrome transparencies

pavel_kosenko: 4x5 Kodachromes

60 years later, I'd love to take photos this good.

 

Wow, great photos! Amazing stuff

 

Great photos, one of the reasons for them looking good is the fact the film is 4" x 5" where as full frame DSLR like Canon EOS 5D has a sensor that is only 36 x 24 mm (that's a full frame for a 135 mm film) and most digital cameras have much smaller sensors. A film of that size can enlarged to huge sizes, it also means that all digital pictures are enlarged just to make them visible.
A Kodachrome 36 x 24 mm transparency is equivalent to 20 megapixel so the digital world is catching up with the films that were manufactured about 60 years ago

 

USS Pinola My dad, a Pearl Harbor survivor, spent the the first half of WWII on it. A sea going tug and repair ship.

 

My folks when I took them to Washington DC on an Honor Flight.
Both where Pearl Harbor survivors. They lived on Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor!