[rollei_list] Re: 'Kodak, Don't Take My Kodachrome'

  • From: Bob Haight <rhaightjr@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:49:27 -0700 (PDT)

...and that is why Kodak wants to discontinue the
product. No one can get it developed easily. Bob
--- Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 01:10 PM 5/31/05 -0700, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> 
> >   The article also refers to Kodachrome as having
> "lurid"=20
> >color. Of course it doesn't. That may have been
> true for=20
> >1940's Kodachrome but the current stuff is pretty
> lifelike.=20
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
> My father purchased a Kodak 8 Cine camera in 1938
> and I have almost all of
> the films he made with it across the room from me --
> he did edit out shots
> of his first wife at some point before I was born. 
> All of these, even the
> earliest, are true color today, though I hate to
> view them as it is a bit
> embarrassing to review the movies of Christmas when
> you were four years old
> or the like.  I will say, though, that, judging from
> the earlier pictures,
> especially those from the War (Dad took the camera
> to Alaska where he
> commanded an AA Battery from 1942 to 1943) and those
> shot after the War, my
> father was a hunk in his day and my mother was a
> beauty.  I do not remember
> them in that way, and it is neat to see them
> restored to a youth I never
> saw at first hand.
> 
> I still hve the camera but no longer use it, as we
> have to jump through
> hoops to get single-8 movie film these days and the
> processing is a bear to
> locate.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20
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> 
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