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Subject: [Leica] When did Kodachrome really die?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:09:12 -0500

But grain the size of golf balls.


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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
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mark at rabinergroup.com
Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb




> From: leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:53:01 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] When did Kodachrome really die?
> 
> I mostly used kodachrome 200 pushed 1 stop for shooting under
> flourencent/mixed lights.  Poof, no magenta / no green.
> 
> Leo Wesson
> Photographer/Videographer
> 817.733.9157
> www.leowesson.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:45 PM, bill pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> 
> wrote:
>> Oh, so close but yet so far. Qualex (the name makes me giggle) was the 
>> Kodak
>> labs spun off into a separate company that was owned by, tuh duh, Kodak! 
>> All
>> the same kind of wall street crap that got us where we are today. The lab 
>> in
>> Kansas City was really quite good at C41 process and print. But nobody 
>> could
>> get the 20 points of magenta out of the Kodachrome. Hope Dwayne's had 
>> better
>> luck.
>> 
>> Bill Pearce
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at 
>> rabinergroup.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] When did Kodachrome really die?
>> 
>> 
>>> When people switches to Velvia ?in the 80's when that stuff came out on
>>> top
>>> of the fact that Kodak started having some other half assed company
>>> process
>>> the Kodachrome. Quaaludes or Qualex or something like that?
>>> 
>>> Velvia was great stuff just don't try making a grilled cheese sandwich 
>>> out
>>> of it it will stink up your whole house.
>>> 
>>> --------------------
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>> Photography
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>>> Cars: ? http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:40:50 -0500
>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] When did Kodachrome really die?
>>>> 
>>>> Slide boxes are in Little Washington, but my guess is that I have not
>>>> shot a
>>>> roll of Kodachrome in at least 30 years.
>>>> 
>>>> It was usually to red for me.
>>>> 
>>>> ric
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'm just wondering, how long has it been since you shot the stuff, not
>>>>> counting this recent "drink the kool-aid" rush.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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