Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/20

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Kodak Moment (millenium) - keeps going, and going, and going....
From: "Aram Langhans" <alanghans@komoto.naches.wednet.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 05:26:57 -0800
References: <200111200529.VAA16468@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

Hi Ted,

I know there are good E6 films out there.  I seem to shoot a roll or two a
year.  Yet when I look back at my 30 year collection of slides I see the few
rolls of E4/E6 stuff I have taken over the years have faded and shifted
considerably and the Kodachromes look as good as I remember them to be.
That is what scares me about the E6 films  I plan on being around a good 20
more years and like to look at old images once in a while.  I am sure the
modern E6 films are better than the old stuff, but how good is a question
that won't be answered for 20 years.  I could scan them, but if I scanned
everything I took I wouldn't have time to take much.  If I am selective and
scan only the "best", those may not be the ones I want to see 20 years from
now.  It is often a shot that is not technically great, but has sentimental
value 20 years from when taken, that I enjoy seeing again.  "I remember
that, dear...."  And how many times would I have to change the format of the
scanned image to keep up to date with the new technology?  In 20 years will
a computer or what ever visual device we have then be able to read a CD or a
file saved in tiff or photoshop format?  I have student projects done 10
years ago on a Mac at school that I cannot read anymore because as software
changed I did not change format from an application that existed then to one
that exists now.  I'll always be able to view a slide.

Not being a professional like yourself, time is only an inconvenience to me,
not a financial necessity.  As a pro, I am sure I would be doing something
different.

Aram


Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:26:59 -0800
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Leica Users digest V21 #106
Message-ID: <001d01c17138$8a7c6540$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net>
References: <000201c1712b$6eb9fe60$3c85d4a8@naches.wednet.edu>

Aram Langhans wrote:
>>> I'll agree about price being more important than time.  The time is
> secondary, but it is getting a bit annoying as the time has changed from
one
> week (years ago) to two weeks and now to three weeks.  Good thing I keep
> careful notes about what I have done so I can review my techniques in
tricky
> situations.<<<<

Hi Aram,
But is there not a logical common sense message in the notes you've kept?

Forget Kodachrome! And use one of the beautiful E6 films with the finished
slides available within a couple hours of exposing your film? ;-)

Although I did at one time shoot hundreds of rolls of KR as a professional
photographer, we could no longer cope with the lack of service for processed
film and went entirely E6 film and have results within hours if necessary
and a quality that is quite amazing.
ted
Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant


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