Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]speaking of old film... When I was at the Getty Art Institute in LA a couple of months ago I met the senior scientist in charge of photography analysis. He is trying, among many things, to assemble a collection of all the various types of film that have been made over the decades, to serve as a comparison database for photography analysis. Knowing what film was like when helps date things, analyze chemistry of images and so on. It gets real technical, real fast. I made him very extremely happy when I went through my darkroom and shipped him all the odd rolls I've accumulated over the years -- stuff in camera outfits I'd bought, stray rolls in cameras I bought, and so on. If anyone has any old film at all -- plate, roll, sheet, b/w or color, pan, chrome, exposed, expired, anything, it can be donated to the Getty for this valuable service to the future. Please dig and send to me: Charles Trentelman 3556 Fowler Ave. Ogden, UT 84403-1123 and I will forward it on to him. This is a great way to get rid of junk, such as the roll of film in the Brownie you bought at the yard sale and you just hate to toss it. I cleaned out about a cubic foot of airspace in my darkroom when I did this -- and in my darkroom, every square foot is valuable. Thanks charles trentelman