[Leica] New Film

[Bill Welch <welch@pressroom.com>]

Pardon me if this has already been mentioned in the Photokina talk and I
missed it. 

I understand Kodak will unveil a new ISO 100 color slide film. I'm told it
is designed to be Rochester's response, at last, to Velvia. Though one stop
faster, it is said to be very nearly as sharp as Velvia, and the colors
vivid and saturated, though not quite as punched up.  I can hear the
skeptics now: we've heard this before -- Ektachrome 64X, then Lumiere, then
100s.  A lab I use has run tests on this new film for the manufacturer and
reports encouraging results. Does anyone know more about this?

Bill Welch
  



At 01:59 PM 9/4/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>From: Robert G. Stevens <robsteve@istar.ca>
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>>I must say B&W is not easier to make a good picture than Colour.    >
>>Robert Stevens
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>Thanks, Robert.
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>One of the first projects that I give to my "Beyond the Basics" workshop
>students is a roll of the new C-41 process B&W film (Kodak or Ilford), shot
>as part of an assignment, and processed the same day. Most of these students
>have never shot a roll of B&W and they find very quickly that color masks a
>lot of very bad and or very boring image making.
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>And this brings up another point. A couple of weeks ago, I conducted a two
>day "Basics" workshop for the Coupeville Arts Center. My students ranged in
>age from about 18 to somewhere in their 60's. More and more I am finding
>that the retail photo industry is doing very little to help these people.
>The Mall type camera stores have very little on their shelves other than the
>P&S-digital-automatic equipment and the people behind the counter know
>little to nothing about the craft of photography. More often than not, when
>I go into that type of store, with an M-6 around my neck, the clerk will
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>"what kind of camera is that?"
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>When told it is a Leica, they will look at me with a blank stare and say,
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>"Oh? Never heard of it."
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>The point that I am trying to make - it is up to those of us who do have
>some knowledge and experience with image making to share that knowledge.
>There are a lot of people out there who would like to know more about it and
>they cannot get much help from the average retail outlet. Volunteer at your
>local school, community center, art center............wherever. If we don't,
>we need not worry about what features the next M series will have because
>there won't be anyone left who cares about buying it. As it is, 95% of the
>world thinks of personal photography as 4x6 inch prints that come out of the
>machine at the local drugstore.
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>Cheers,
>David Medley
>Whidbey Is.   WA
>USA
>dmedley@whidbey.net
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