Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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). > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information