Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, I know there are good E6 films out there. I seem to shoot a roll or two a year. Yet when I look back at my 30 year collection of slides I see the few rolls of E4/E6 stuff I have taken over the years have faded and shifted considerably and the Kodachromes look as good as I remember them to be. That is what scares me about the E6 films I plan on being around a good 20 more years and like to look at old images once in a while. I am sure the modern E6 films are better than the old stuff, but how good is a question that won't be answered for 20 years. I could scan them, but if I scanned everything I took I wouldn't have time to take much. If I am selective and scan only the "best", those may not be the ones I want to see 20 years from now. It is often a shot that is not technically great, but has sentimental value 20 years from when taken, that I enjoy seeing again. "I remember that, dear...." And how many times would I have to change the format of the scanned image to keep up to date with the new technology? In 20 years will a computer or what ever visual device we have then be able to read a CD or a file saved in tiff or photoshop format? I have student projects done 10 years ago on a Mac at school that I cannot read anymore because as software changed I did not change format from an application that existed then to one that exists now. I'll always be able to view a slide. Not being a professional like yourself, time is only an inconvenience to me, not a financial necessity. As a pro, I am sure I would be doing something different. Aram Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:26:59 -0800 From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com> Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Leica Users digest V21 #106 Message-ID: <001d01c17138$8a7c6540$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net> References: <000201c1712b$6eb9fe60$3c85d4a8@naches.wednet.edu> Aram Langhans wrote: >>> I'll agree about price being more important than time. The time is > secondary, but it is getting a bit annoying as the time has changed from one > week (years ago) to two weeks and now to three weeks. Good thing I keep > careful notes about what I have done so I can review my techniques in tricky > situations.<<<< Hi Aram, But is there not a logical common sense message in the notes you've kept? Forget Kodachrome! And use one of the beautiful E6 films with the finished slides available within a couple hours of exposing your film? ;-) Although I did at one time shoot hundreds of rolls of KR as a professional photographer, we could no longer cope with the lack of service for processed film and went entirely E6 film and have results within hours if necessary and a quality that is quite amazing. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html