Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, what do you know, apparently Wikipedia knows more than Kodak. I guess the Kodak history page only talks about roll film history: "...Introduced around 1940 in sheets<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheet_film>rated at ASA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed> daylight<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature>200 and tungsten 160, it was one of Kodak <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak>'s first high-speed (for the time) black-and-white films. Tri-X was released in 35mm<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/135_film>and 120 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_film> in 1954.*"* On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote: > I knew about that shoot story for awhile, but I found the NPR story > tonight and was just surprised that he said Tri-X was used. > > Marty thinks it's probably Plus-X or XX, which makes more sense. > > The assistant would rush to the darkroom and quickly developed and fixed > each neg and brought them out while they were still wet. > > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > gmail.com>wrote: > >> Forget the film - that is a super story. I find it surprising, in >> these days of one second gratification, that Dali, his wife and cats >> were prepared to spend ad day on the shoot to take one shot! >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Richard Man >> <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: >> > Dali Atomicus is the famous 1948 picture of Dali and cats and water by >> > Philippe Halsman >> > >> http://www.shootingfilm.net/2013/04/how-famous-dali-atomicus-photo-was-taken.html >> > >> > According to this interview with National Geographic Society >> photographer >> > Chris Rainier, Halsman used Tri-X film: >> > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4583051 >> > >> > But according to Kodak, Tri-X wasn't invented until 1954! >> > >> http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Our_Company/History_of_Kodak/Milestones_-_chronology/1930-1959.htm >> > >> > and of course Tri-X TX400 is not available in sheet form (currently). >> > >> > So what did Halsman use? >> > >> > -- >> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto