Ektachrome film comming back !
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goose_in_co
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I liked Ektachrome, but my slides have faded over the years.
But, Kodachrome, Gives us those nice bright colors.... and was the best at 25 ASA, the 64 was good, and the 200 was OK. Finding someone to develop it was a big pain.
But, Kodachrome, Gives us those nice bright colors.... and was the best at 25 ASA, the 64 was good, and the 200 was OK. Finding someone to develop it was a big pain.
DaveW6DPS
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I used to use Ektachrome for astrophotography. I like the ease of using a digital imager, but a well exposed slide seemed like a better image.
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Good news for photographers but nothing like the shouts of hosanna that you would hear if Kodachrome 25 was reintroduced. I've been both an avid and professional photographer since 1974 and there is NO WAY that I'm going back to film. Digital photography is both a blessing and curse. It makes jobs so much easier but now, every Tom, Dick and Liz think that they are a professional and will hire out for nothing. I'm pretty Libertarian in my views but it is one field that is in heavy need of licensing and legislation.
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Raindog
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Hipsters shooting Holgas?
You gave up your SLRs rather than use Fuji? I'm not finding fault but am just curious.
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My wife didn't like the idea of sharing a laundry room with chemicals. Now that we have moved I have a shop where I have set up a dark room. Sometimes you things to keep the household peaceable.
For shooting movies, maybe. Enthusiasts, perhaps but I don't it will be commercially viable long term. Mass market? Dead on arrival.
bobby_hamill
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I still have my my JOBO 1000 tank from the early 1980s 
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Hipsters shooting Holgas?
I just checked out my tank and drum roller and they are ready to roll. I need a new fuse for color analyzer for the my enlarger. Other than that I need some new chemical bottles and development chemicals. I guess I will be surf the web looking for chemicals and other items.I still have my my JOBO 1000 tank from the early 1980s
You gave up your SLRs rather than use Fuji? I'm not finding fault but am just curious.
gldknght
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You can't be serious if you think the gov'ment needs to license my ability to take photos. That's way past crazy!! I can't take and sell my photos because you think you are somehow entitled to sell your stuff for more money than I do?? That's like saying I can't change the oil in my mom's car for free because the guy down the block has an auto mechanic shop. I have just one word for that ... NUTS!!!!
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Yeah, about as nutty as needing government permission to be a notary or to sell real estate commercially. Look, I never said that your ability to take photos should be controlled by the government. Click away! I'll try to be clearer here. What I was stating was that your ability to hang a sign out and offer your services to the public should require a certificate or proof of rudimentary education in the service in which you are offering. If you have ever worked in the field you would have heard countless tales about how once-in-a-lifetime memories have been lost by photographers making bold promises and then being unable, or unwilling, to deliver. The trouble with modern cameras is that anyone with any ability can take a beautiful shot. What they can't do is make a beautiful shot every time under all conditions. Unfortunately, many clients, and even some photographers, don't discover this fact until a very expensive wedding moment, or some other unique moment in which the photographer has been paid to capture, has been ruined.
What most professional photographers want is a certification program that tests and grades a photographer's skill and knowledge, and to require that all photographers display this certification in their advertisements and listings. You want to hire an Uncle Charlie or scab to shoot your wedding? Fine. When it is messed up, you have no one to blame but yourself. Hire a certified professional and you had legal recourse when the job is not performed. And yes, photographers have been sued for their shoddy work before. It always makes big news. Seldom published are the very small settlements, if any, paid. And this brings up another point. I, as most professionals, carry insurance that covers us both when we work and our produced work. But it is not a requirement and most "FaceBook photographers (entire wedding on a disk for $200)" are not. Again, certification would require this.
I would be happy to debate this with you more, although this clearly isn't the forum for it. But when you call me "NUTS!!!!" and state that I am "way past crazy" then it really doesn't appear that you care about having an open mind or will attempt to understand all sides of the issue. If all that you have are insults, I don't really give a tinker's damn about what you think.
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Kodachrome 25 was the best film I ever used. Have folders of slides shot with that wonder film.
Kodachrome 25 was the best film I ever used. Have folders of slides shot with that wonder film.
+1, although it was a bit too slow for use on pretty much anything that was moving.
Used to be in a camera club for a couple of years. Because the competition rules back then (PDE, pre- digital era)stated you had to process any prints yourself or shoot slides. I just shot transparencies and entered that category in the comps. The slide film really got you to get good with exposure. There was also no such thing as Photoshop. You had to think the shot through to the end result in the camera. I still have a dislike for anyone who wins a competition with something that has been greatly Photohacked. I also get annoyed when someone looks at my shots and then compliments me on my Photoshop skills. I don't use the software, and probably never will. You don't need software to make great photographs is you shoot properly in the first place [rant off].
jimzcatz
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Licensing and legislation? Are you out of your mind? That's seriously about the dumbest thing I have heard on this forum. That's like requiring a kite flyer to get a pilots license because you want to use the area he's in for a picnic.
I likey, but what's a "kite"?
Obviously we can, and eventually will have rules,laws,legislation on virtually everything. It's a self perpetuating machine. Pandora only comes out of the box, not a two way street. Not a fan personally, but apparently you need to protect those that...
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Obviously, you didn't comprehend my first post, nor the explanation in which I explained that I meant this for professional photographers. Not a license for anyone to take photos but as a way for professional photographers to be policed by requiring a minimal amount of training. But since you have shown such respect with your reply, and this isn't a photography forum, I will end my involvement here and now.
gldknght
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Omg, I love this, so funny and exactly right on!!
gldknght
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I don't accept that photographers, either professional or otherwise, need to be "policed". We DO NOT LIVE IN A POLICE STATE!!! I have been asked to do some professional photography on occasion. I made it clear to my clients that I am not a professional, and don't have the same equipment that most professionals do. I also made it clear I would not charge them the same prices a professional would. ( By the way, this was way before digital cameras were available like they are now).
I showed my clients some of my work, and they thought I could do the job well enough. Every one was happy. Why would the government need to get involved in this?
Dude, you need to be regulated...
