[Leica] Kodachrome

[Mark Rabiner]

Shooting SX-70's again is going to be like the whole world went to heaven. One of the greatest photo machines ever invented by far. Sonar focusing! Who'd a thunk!

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 2/14/18, 7:19 AM, "LUG on behalf of Don Dory via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    However, Polaroid is now selling SX-70 film again having purchased it back
    from Impossible Project and fixed the weird color issues.  I am now digging
    around for my SX-70 camera to start the whole knitting needle on image
    thing again.
    
    As to Kodachrome, I can't imagine bringing back that process even for fine
    art creative types.  I suspect this is just a method to make a little money
    on nostalgia like the Life Magazine specials that appear every quarter or
    so.
    
    On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:56 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
    
    > I think slide films are at the bottom now selling wise. They don't sell a
    > lot of the stuff. The last years of Kodachrome not a lot of people were
    > buying it but quite a few were buying and using Fujichrome.  Fujichrome did
    > replace Kodachrome in the hearts and minds of most serious photographers
    > you got it back and hour later instead of a few days and the color was
    > great.
    > It certainly replaced Ektachrom which always was cyan and horrible. But no
    > one used it. Fujichrome ruled.
    > Me I mainly shot color neg and black and white neg.
    >
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    > Mark William Rabiner
    > Photographer
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    > On 2/14/18, 2:18 AM, "LUG on behalf of Gerry Walden via LUG"
    > <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
    > lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
    >
    >     I am intrigued that Kodak are now pushing Kodachrome photography
    > (note, I did not say Kodachrome is back) by publishing a new Kodachrome
    > magazine, edition 2 of which is now available at a price of £20 here in the
    > UK. It features Kodachrome images from the archives but is very expensive
    > for what it is. I also note that a contact sheet featured in Edition 2 was
    > shot on Ilford HP5, but it is what the featured photographer was using
    > ‘back in the day’.
    >
    >     Does this re-emergence mean that they are trying to raise interest in
    > Kodachrome again? Pretty unlikely, but a strange move.
    >
    >     Gerry
    >
    >     Gerry Walden
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