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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue Dec 30 14:23:08 2008

What about the stuff being continued by Fuji?


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:39:50 -0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace
> 
> How about old Ektachromes?
> I refused to shoot with it during the 70's and 80's when I was doing
> copy slides for artists.
> I stuck with Kodachrome. Most of the time I used an M3 with a DR
> 'cron. Sometimes with a Nikon with a Mirco-Nikkor.
> The DR still cleaned its clock.
> An old friend had a job going over artist submitted slides at the
> MOCA in LA.
> She was amazed with the way the Kodachromes held up.
> The very worst images, i.e. fading, were done with tungsten Ektachrome.
> 
> But, speaking of Polaroid, the issue of its collection is still a
> sore point.
> One rumor I heard was that the Getty was interested.
> ???
> sd
> 
> 
> On Dec 30, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Don Dory wrote:
> 
>> The
>> Polaroid's held up better color wise than the newer stuff(60's into
>> the
>> 80's).
> 
> 
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