Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Happy birthday to the LUG and thank you Brian. As for Jim Shulman's message, put me down for 2 bricks of K64! That is big news. Phil Forrest On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:14:39 -0400 Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- philforrest.wordpress.com gallery.leica-users.org/v/philforrest