Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Tue Dec 30 09:26:06 2008
References: <49584908.8070706@san.rr.com> <C57F4E6B.474BC%mark@rabinergroup.com> <9b678e0812300827k458a37f8y8a80f25b3869cb57@mail.gmail.com>

One interesting polaroid set is a documentation of the filming and cast of
Horse Soldiers, with John Wayne.    The color holds pretty good, if I rcall,
originals weren't too saturated.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark,This is only observational, but, many people used polaroids during the
> middle sixties as you could get color in a few minutes instead of days.
>  When I am scanning peoples family memories there is usually a five year or
> so block of Polaroid pictures before they go to now faded C-22 images.  The
> Polaroid's held up better color wise than the newer stuff(60's into the
> 80's).
>
> I would expect our archivist from La to have comments on numbers of
> Polaroid
> vs neg/print images in the University collection.
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Few people really ever owned a Polaroid.
> >
> > I'd like to see the stats on how much Polaroid photography was done by
> > amateurs vs. Leica.
> >
> > Mark William Rabiner
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@san.rr.com>
> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > > Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:50:32 -0800
> > > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace
> > >
> > > Larry and Rei,
> > >
> > > No!  They would not prepare the same sort of EULOGY, because Polaroid
> > > had far more influence on
> > > the hoi-poloi than did Leica.  Most people have never heard of
> > Leitz/Leica.
> > >
> > > They will die "not with a bang, but a whimper".
> > >
> > > Jerry
> > >
> > >
> > > Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> > >> another one of the nifty fifty bites the dust:
> > >>
> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Dec28 10:44, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Read the lyrical and nostalgic account of the passing of Polaroid in
> > >>> today's New York Times.
> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/weekinreview/28kimmelman.html?hp
> > >>>
> > >>> I wonder if some editorial writer is preparing the same sort of elegy
> > >>> for Leica?
> > >>>
> > >>> Larry Z
> > >>>
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> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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>
>
> --
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
USA

In reply to: Message from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace)
Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace)