Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Certainly film is a teeny market, but so is everything else compares to iPhone etc. now :-) Note that the main impetus for them is EKtachrome MOVIE film, the other stock are side benefits. I just went to a talk with Alex and Rebecca Webb, and he had to shoot the last of his Kodachrome as B&W... sigh... OTOH, I do love Provia/Sensia, and Velvia... On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Ektachrome was a cold nightmare. You'd need an 81a but many used an 81b > warming filter just to make it not look like the cold side of Neptune. > That's a 100 or 200k need of warm up. When Fujichrome came along > absolutely > no one used Ektachrome any more. It blew it right out of the water. At > that > point Kodak may have fired the head tech guy at Kodak and got someone in > who > warmed it into reality a bit. > Though unfortunately when Fujichrome came along pretty much everyone > stopped > using Kodachrome as well. > > Agfachome was used by exactly three people. Maurice, Hans and Shirley. When > one of them died they closed down a factory. > > On 1/8/17 4:56 PM, "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 Bill Nelsch <photobynelsch at gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> What was old is new again: > >> http://petapixel.com/2017/01/05/kodak-ektachrome-film-coming-back/ > > <http://petapixel.com/2017/01/05/kodak-ektachrome-film-coming-back/> > > > >> Bill in Denver > > ========================================================== > > I'd get excited if it was Kodachrome. > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- "Some People Drive, We Are Driven" // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> richardmanphoto on Facebook and Instagram <https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto>