[Leica] The Passing of E-6 by Thomas Sowell

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

Well, let's go back about sixty-five years. My first introduction to 
slides. My new wife, a friend, and I took a car trip from Chicago to 
the west. He had borrowed a Leica (F, I think???) and two lenses: 50 
and 135. We were in several national parks on the way to Los Angeles 
and San Franciaco. I had never seen mountains before; the experience 
was profound.

After our return, we took turns owning the box of slides. The name of 
the game was to round up a captive audience, set up projector and 
screen, and have a slide show. The magic of Kodachrome caused us to 
relive the experience, at least for a year or so.

That's why people loved slides. Obviously if you want prints, neg 
film is clearly the way to go. I figured that out for myself after a 
year of making prints from slides.

Herb






>A big difference between his lab in his neighborhood not doing e6 and e6
>going out everywhere which is impossible as you've always been able to get
>third party kits which work, have less steps, is easier to control for the
>home user and is maybe cheaper. And there are no plans to do away with slide
>film. Though I could care less if they did. When I shoot film I shoot color
>neg I feel it is far superior in every way and every day. Why people shoot
>transparences is beyond me.
>
>--------------------
>Mark William Rabiner
>Photography
>mark at rabinergroup.com
>
>
>  > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>  > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>  > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:33:32 -0500
>  > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>  > Subject: Re: [Leica] The Passing of E-6 by Thomas Sowell
>  >
>  > Since I am the same age as Sowell, I can easily share his
>recollections, and
>  > his feelings.  While in the USAF during the Korean conflict, several of 
> us
>  > bought Kodachrome motion picture stock in 100' rolls, and loaded our own
>  > recycled cassettes, which we sent to Kodak for processing.  They finally
>  > caught on and ceased to support free processing of bulk film.
>  >
>  > Jim Nichols
>  > Tullahoma, TN USA
>  > ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Rei Shinozuka" <shino at panix.com>
>  > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>  > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:10 PM
>  > Subject: [Leica] The Passing of E-6 by Thomas Sowell
>  >
>  >
>  >>  Before Stanford, Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, and Cornell, economist 
> and
>  >> writer Thomas Sowell started out in Korea as a photographer with the 
> USMC.
>  >>
>  >> http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell090110.php3
>  >>
>  >> -rei
>  >>
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Herbert Kanner
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