Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/09

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Subject: [Leica] Ektachrome makes a comeback
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 05:00:23 -0500

Ektachrome was a cold nightmare.  You'd need an 81a but many used an 81b
warming filter just to make it not look like the cold side of Neptune.
That's a 100 or 200k need of warm up.  When Fujichrome came along absolutely
no one used Ektachrome any more.  It blew it right out of the water. At that
point Kodak may have fired the head tech guy at Kodak and got someone in who
warmed it into reality a bit.
Though unfortunately when Fujichrome came along pretty much everyone stopped
using Kodachrome as well.

Agfachome was used by exactly three people. Maurice, Hans and Shirley. When
one of them died they closed down a factory.

On 1/8/17 4:56 PM, "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 Bill Nelsch <photobynelsch at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> What was old is new again:
>> http://petapixel.com/2017/01/05/kodak-ektachrome-film-coming-back/
> <http://petapixel.com/2017/01/05/kodak-ektachrome-film-coming-back/>
> 
>> Bill in Denver
> ==========================================================
> I'd get excited if it was Kodachrome.




-- 
Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/




Replies: Reply from richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Ektachrome makes a comeback)
In reply to: Message from amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak) ([Leica] Ektachrome makes a comeback)