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Subject: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace
From: sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)
Date: Tue Dec 30 16:04:41 2008
References: <C5800A9D.47537%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark, Fuji couldn't make a Kodachrome type film; Kodak had locktite patents 
on the film.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace


> Ektachrome was so cyan blue and flat for so long it was unbelievable.
> I'd love to know the story behind that.
> Some head tech guy at Kodak running everything ignoring the marketing 
> people
> and photographers named Mark.
> I used an 81 b filter with it when I had to use it.
> An 81 a Just didn't do it.
>
> Fuji film was so superior, the slide film that it that it was amazing.
>
> But Fuji never made a Kodachrome type film it was always E6 or E4.
>
> Kodachrome will always rule.
> I made my clients wait for Kodachrome or I didn't do the job.
> With one or two exceptions; with the rent due.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@lighttube.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:45:58 -0600
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace
>>
>> I had a bad time with old Ektachromes as well.  My fifty-year-old
>> Kodachromes held up just fine.
>>
>> I also have a period where I used an SX-70.  I may try to copy some of 
>> those
>> to fill in the gaps in my archives.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace
>>
>>
>>> How about old Ektachromes?
>>> I refused to shoot with it during the 70's and 80's when I was doing 
>>> copy
>>> slides for artists.
>>> I stuck with Kodachrome. Most of the time I used an M3 with a DR  'cron.
>>> Sometimes with a Nikon with a Mirco-Nikkor.
>>> The DR still cleaned its clock.
>>> An old friend had a job going over artist submitted slides at the  MOCA 
>>> in
>>> LA.
>>> She was amazed with the way the Kodachromes held up.
>>> The very worst images, i.e. fading, were done with tungsten Ektachrome.
>>>
>>> But, speaking of Polaroid, the issue of its collection is still a  sore
>>> point.
>>> One rumor I heard was that the Getty was interested.
>>> ???
>>> sd
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 30, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Don Dory wrote:
>>>
>>>> The
>>>> Polaroid's held up better color wise than the newer stuff(60's into 
>>>> the
>>>> 80's).
>>>
>>>
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