Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Luggers, God - how I love Kodachrome. I am going through my slides from the 1960's, scanning some, and throwing away a bunch. This will save my children doing it when we're gone. Here I am in April 1967 in Gibraltar on spring break from the LSE - "monkey see, monkey do". http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kodachrome/H_GibralterApeApril67W.jpg.html http://tinyurl.com/23e4lzx In those days Spain had blockaded Gibraltar and there was no car traffic between Lalinea on the Spanish side and Gibraltar. I liked the juxtaposition of the International Success sign and the barbed wire. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kodachrome/SuccessAdApr67W.jpg.html http://tinyurl.com/28rdn5g I wonder if we will be able to so easily access our digital images in 43 years and whether they will have stood the test of time as well as kodachrome. My Extachrome and especially the few Agfa slides I have have not stood the test of time well at all. That makes them easier to throw away. Talking about equipment used - I don't remember the camera - I think it may have been a Yashica Electro 35 with a 45mm f1.7 lens. Couldn't afford Leica then. Cheers Howard (still on Pender)