Yep. And I think people don't have a really good grasp of how little lens resolution really improved for almost 50 years. Many of the great lens recipes were a decade or more old by this point.
Plus, many 35mm films were quite high-resolution even then; the downside was they were all very slow. This form of Kodachrome was ASA 10 or 12 or something like that.
I currently have a roll of ISO 25 loaded in my camera right now (Rollei RPX 25) :-) I grew up shooting on film and preferred 400 over 800 speed film because of the film grain at 800 ~ the fact that my mirrorless can go up to 25600 and still look okay just blows my mind.
Kodachrome. They give us those nice bright colors. They give us the greens of summers. Makes you think all the world's a sunny day. I got a Nikon camera. I love to take a photograph. Too bad mama took my Kodachrome away. ~ I'm sad that I'll never actually get to shoot on it.
I shot a couple of rolls of K64; I'm sad that I never shot any K25.
That said my real "I wish I had..." are:
- I never printed anything with classic Centennial/Kentmere POP paper, and now nobody makes the stuff.
- I never shot any Agfa Scala (though Adox have brought something similar back)
I bought a darkroom enlarger to use the base + column as a copy stand, and I realised at that point that I would have to do some of my own printing, even just once, or I'd always feel that I'd missed out. Those few prints are among the most significant objects I own. And now I _know_ I will do it again.
Mirrorless is my day-to-day photography experience, though, with all sorts of adapted lens experiments.
I like the cut of your jib. A friend of mine just moved out of state and had to clear out his garage. He was giving stuff away and I sadly had to pass on the opportunity to get a nice enlarger for free -- I just don't have the space for a full blown dark room. The best I can do currently is develop negatives and throw them on my flatbed. Though, I'm eyeballing Ilford's Popup Darktoom kit. [1] I did some of my own prints in high school years ago, and it's a wonderful feeling.
Yes -- that popup darkroom is a design that was originally sold by Nova Darkroom in the UK, I think, about 15 years ago. It appears to be pretty good and I'm really impressed that Ilford have kept the price down. It's good to see it still around.
Edit: it's not, actually -- it's a little simpler than the Nova tent which is still in production:
