Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/10

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To: "Leica Users Group" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Film preferences
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@apple.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 96 09:35:11 -0700

>>Color film -- well, on the rare occasions I shoot slide film,
>>usually Ektachrome 200 or Kodachrome 100, depending upon the
>
>You are the second person to mention Kodachrome 100 in my hearing in the
>last week. Has Kodak snuck a new film in?

Just shows how infrequently I use transparency film. Kodachrome 64.
Sigh. Memory is the second thing to go.

Digressing a little, I picked up a Polaroid Sprintscan 35/ES the 
other day and have been merrily playing with it to learn how to use
it to best advantage. It works beautifully with my B&W and color 
negs, but I find that slides are just as difficult to get a good
scan of as they are to get good prints out of; the negs all pop up
with beautiful sharp, crisp details and lovely colors, the slides
are 98% of them difficult to get good sharpness and color fidelity
is very tricky. Amazing to see my darkroom so accurately reflected
in a scanner/computer system. 

Godfrey