Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And I just returned from a brief (precluded by rain) morning of shooting with my M3; the film's on the rack drying now. The following was passed along to me by a friend--who knows, if we all team up we might be able to get ISO 10 Kodachrome back!! Time to break out the Summitar... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Kodachrome] Kodak says Kodachrome may come back Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:28:11 -0700 From: Jack Honeycutt <jack at solid.net> Reply-To: kodachrome at lists.kjsl.com To: kodachrome at lists.kjsl.com Hi Folks.... This is a cross post from a 3D users group I hang out on: I just attended (last night) a SMPTE meeting of the Hollywood Chapter. The subject was "The Technology and History of Film, presented by Beverly Pasterczyk of Eastman Kodak Co." Ms. Pasterczyk is a chemist with film R & D at Kodak, and she mentioned that Kodak Research is currently engaged in the continuing design and implementation of new emulsions, such as the new version of the Vision III product. Regarding consumer films, she said that they are considering restructuring a new approach aimed at producing these at a reasonable cost in much smaller volumes than in the past. She said that new technology will permit them to continue to produce these in "boutique quantities" using single coating machines rather than the huge multiple coaters of the past. She said that basically, as long as they had sufficient orders for a minimum of a single master roll "54 inches (almost 1-1/2 meters) wide by whatever length - no minimum stated", they would consider examining production in terms of the economics involved. Future production would primarily be on an "on demand" basis. This would include the infrastructure for processing, probably at a single lab, either in Rochester NY, or sub-contracted. "On demand" could conceivably include any film that Kodak has ever manufactured. Someone in the audience asked the inevitable question: "Including Kodachrome?" Her answer: "Yes, including Kodachrome". She added that while small runs of Kodachrome were unlikely, it was not out of the question, since they have had numerous inquiries. To the question "How could this be made possible?" her answer was intriguing. "Volume is the answer. Consumer groups of large numbers of individuals could petition for the return of a specific film. This would include not only large companies, but also individuals banded together such as camera clubs, especially those with a large enough base such that they could collectively join on a national or even international basis". Lots to think about. _______________________________________________ Kodachrome mailing list Kodachrome at lists.kjsl.com http://lists.kjsl.com/mailman/listinfo/kodachrome Best, Jim Shulman Wynnewood, PA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 2:06 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG 20th anniversary To answer your question, George--one of the joys of Lightroom is that stats are very easy to generate. Looking in my library, there are 5976 pictures from 2011, meaning that I probably shot between 7000 and 8000 images during the year. Of those 5976, 1700 were shot with my M8, and 2656 with my Pentax K5. The rest with the Fuji X100 and film. So far in 2012, 1037 images have survived the initial cull, of which 464 were made with the M8, followed by 279 with the K5. So while I use 3-4 cameras, Leica is a very major part of my photography, as it has been since I bought my first M6 and joined this list in 1998. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Mar 24, 2012, at 6:43 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Brian Reid wrote: > >> Two weeks from today will be the 20th anniversary of the founding of the LUG. >> The first message was sent on 7 April 1992 (by me) and answered by three people (none of whom is still a subscriber). Since that time there have been 683,188 emails in 49 volumes. (I discovered this today when I started the process of closing vol.49 and moving to vol.50) >> >> The longest-standing subscriber appears to be Michael Volow, who joined in May 1992 and is still here. >> >> Mike's day job is that he is a psychiatrist in Raleigh, NC and an Emeritus professor in Psychiatry at Duke University. Nothing like a Leica to keep a person sane, eh? > > big thank you Brian! > big congratulations too! > > Can't help wondering > How many current LUG subscribers > continue to actually "use" > Leica cameras as their primary cameras. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information