One for the oldies...

[AJQS]

If you were shooting railways in colour in the 50s/60s, what film would you have been using, and what would be a good equivalent today?

I'm not talking about the horrid green and pink blown out slides from the 70s mind, although that would be cool for some other purposes....

 

[joxby]

50/60's..?....gotta be Kodachrome

Now discontinued..

If you want an equivalent slide to Kodachrome slide, there isn't one but 100F tastes like Kodachrome, no good for skin tones but perfect for railways.
For print film, I guess 160VC, cheapo print film, Kodak Gold.

 

[wontolla]

Agfa Universal!

 

[custodian]

I was shooting railways in the 50s. Mixture of films. Kodachrome and Agfa for slides. Perutz or Agfa for prints. Ilford for b&w.

 

[s162216]

For pros with large format sheet film, it would be Ektachrome as Kodak discontinued Kodachrome in sheet formats after the release of the improved Ektachrome E-3 process which was way easier to process.
If not then it would probably for pros be 35mm or 828 sized roll film Kodachrome professional at ASA 8 or 12.

 

[awp]

Ektachrome in 5 x 4 and 120 - can't remember he exact name...