This is one of the most off-track threads that I can recall. But since Kodachrome has been mentioned, I thought to recall Kodachrome II, the greatest color film ever. Disappeared during the rapacious Hunt brothers' execrable attempt to corner the silver market in the early 70's. Probably the demarcation of Kodak's utter fall from grace. They discarded silver-rich K II in favor of K25 and K64, both inferior films; pros saw the difference, and stocked their freezers with what remained of the K II left. Anyone curious to see what a real dmax film can do need only look at National Geographics of the early 70's and prior. Kodak's hubris of trying to slip inferior stock under the nose of market turmoil led to an opening for Fuji, and for E6 processing. No looking back. There is a third act for Kodak, however: their high-end imaging sensors today are the best anywhere.
Shutter lag. Teddy Kennedy was the toughest act ever to photograph. Unlike every other public speaker, his habit was to raise his hands while looking down. Any pro worth his salt wants gesture and eye contact simultaneously. Timing was everything. Mention has been made about delay with film SLR. The precision of Leica and other rangefinder immediacy skips past all of that. Only delay is in the eye-hand relay. Shooting with bursts is simply idiotic, assumption that "something" will work out. The decisive moment occurs athletically within the photographer. Can we drop this now? --- On Tue, 1/26/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CGUYS] digital camera shutter lag To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 9:54 PM On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > We know better now. Today Kodak is not making Kodachrome any more. Right. So Kodak dropped a venerable film from their product line. A large part of the reason was because of competition from Fuji. An awful lot of photographers preferred a couple of the Fuji's over Kodachrome. Also, most of the users of Kodachrome, your typical holiday snap shooters, were switching to mostly point and shoot digital for all their photo taking. Kodak continues to produce a wide variety of film for the casual photographer up to the professionals. Kodak is certainly not out of the film business. Film is not going away, at least not in your lifetime. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
