Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The dental digital set-up was wild - you bite down to hold the sensor, which is much smaller than those damn cardboard film holders they used before. And no sooner does the tech pop back into the room after each shot than it's up on a screen in the corner of the room. Wild. On 10/18/06 5:39 PM, "Philip Forrest" <photo.forrest@earthlink.net> wrote: > I had my ankle digitally x-rayed in 2005 right before I got out of the > Navy. > Funny thing, it was an AGFA machine that did the shoot. Too little too > late > for AGFA... > The scan and the software that they used to diagnose my sprain was awesome > though. It looked like I had benn under a scanning electron microsope with > the detail in the bone that the image showed. > > I was given 2 "newer" formulations of Kodak film when I was working in a > processing lab in California last May. Both were variations on the portra > just as BD mentioned. > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+photo.forrest=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+photo.forrest=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf > Of B. D. Colen > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:32 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Newest Kodak emulsions - Free Film > > The background is pretty obvious, Hoppy - Kodak, which used to own > photography, now has to give away film to try to hang on to its declining > film business. Speaking of which - has anyone else here experienced digital > dental x-raying? It was quite an amazing experience - and I'm sure is yet > another nail in Kodak's film coffin. > > BTW - Kodak is not giving away a "new film emulsion" - It is giving away > samples of its "newest" film emulsions. And that's a big difference. (I > believe they have some "new" formulations of Portra films - at least that's > the only vaguely recent press release they have related to anything "new" > in > film.) > > Bottom line? It's called P.R. > > > > On 10/18/06 5:14 PM, "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > >> And add orders for the LUG Down Under folks ;-) >> Has anyone seen this sort of promotion previously or know the background > to >> this? Very interesting that Kodak should be releasing a >> new emulsion. That seems contrary to the whole digital tsunami thingie. >> >> Cheers >> Hoppy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >> vick.ko@sympatico.ca >> Sent: Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:53 >> To: idcc@kjsl.com; lug@leica-users.org >> Subject: re: [Leica] Newest Kodak emulsions - Free Film >> >> Can someone order the film and send it to me in Canada: >> >> >> > <http://www.kodak.com/global/mul/professional/support/wrt/campaigns/GC00369/ > en >> try.jhtml> >> >> ...Vick >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information