Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ben, Before we get another of the endless threads started on the LUG, please note that if you are into photography for the long haul and work in an area where you are making images that you believe may be historical, there is NOTHING like a Kodachrome original. I did not start making Kodachromes in the 1930s. But I did start in the 1950s and have hundreds of thousands of them.... and they are the ONLY material I can go back to today and have a colorful, usable, high-quality image in the box, ready to use. Knock them if you like (and I have many times over the years when they lost their processing quality control and when all K-64 images gave you the choices of being too magenta, too green, or too contrasty), but if archival concerns are important to you, then you had better wish that Kodak keeps Kodachrome in the product line for a long, long time. There is a wonderful line carved on a statue base at the National Archives building in Washington. Paraphrased, it reads something like this: People who do not study history are cursed to repeat it. Tomorrow when I am nearby viewing the Young Picasso exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, I will look over and read it exactly. Fred Ward