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Subject: [Leica] LUG 20th anniversary
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:59:47 -0400
References: <A988AB5B94E5F019673281D7@hindolveston.reid.org> <7E184606-52D7-425A-8B45-EA3F18DE42E7@mac.com> <6DD1A995-9B09-478A-8D27-49FACC6B5657@frozenlight.eu> <0d9bc02b4965c2afec68ecafc928d13a@mail.gmail.com>

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.
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> 
> 
> 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
> >
> 
> 
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