Eisboch wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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The National Geo photog I occasionally hire uses Nikons with polaroid
backs for setups, and 35 mm and 2-1/4 for money shots. Two of the three
Black Star photogs I hire use kodachrome almost exclusively. There are
reasons why the best shots are still taken with kodachrome or fujichrome
for magazine use.


There's a blast from the past. I know nothing about photography but back
as a teenager I bought a halfway decent camera to try to learn. I
remember trying kodachrome film for slides and was immediately impressed
with the rich, almost artificial colors.

Eisboch

Yeah. For crisp daylight outdoor shots...ASA 25 was the way to go.
For all else it was ASA 64.


Now that I am thinking about it, it wasn't "Kodachrome" that I was so
impressed with. I think Kodachrome was pretty much the standard film, in
different ASAs, wasn't it?
The film I was thinking about was "Ektachrome". It seemed to be much more
vibrant, colorwise. I still have boxes of slides that I took, back when I
was trying this stuff. One still cracks me up - I was laying prone on the
ground taking a close up shot of a couple of geese when one of them lowered
it's head and charged me. I couldn't get out of the way fast enough and all
you see in the slide is a giant beak about to devour the camera.

Eisboch


I believe Ektachrome was the one you could develop at home...or at least
in local processing labs.
Kodachrome had to be sent to a central plant in Toronto.