Corrections

[brathke at juno.com]

Last month I bought a camera on e-bay because it was exactly like my
first 35mm camera in 1959 - a Kodak Pony IV (probably the last adjustable
camera made by Kodak).  This camera was hardly used, and takes good
pictures.  It came complete with an exposure guide for 1959 Kodachrome -
ASA 10!  Kodachrome II came out in 1961, and it was a whopping ASA
25...if you could find it in a camera store.  Last week I shot a roll of
Kodak 200 with this camera, and I was pushing the edge of the adjustments
- f/16 at 1/250 second.

How things have changed.  However, my ASA 10 slides from 1959 have
retained the same colors that they had 41 years ago.

Bob 5/1

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On Mon, 1 May 2000 09:27:04 -0400 "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
writes:
> Jim is correct.  Kodachrome of the day was rated at ASA 8 (it was 
> later
> improved to 10, either by a change in the calculation of the ASA 
> standard or
> a change in the emulsion, I don't recall which.  PRCo didn't 
> experiment with
> fonts.  There were cars later, in the '60s, that had simpler, 
> sans-serif
> dash numbers, but that was because they were stick-ons.
> 
> Suspect the appearance was due to motion or focus.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> [mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim 
> Holland
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:35 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: Re: Corrections
> 
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > In my email last evening I tried to show the 1706 as slanted 
> "speed"
> > lettering.  It didn't come out that way.   You get the idea,  but 
> am I off
> > base?
> > My question is that the car number just to the front of the rear 
> doors
> > appears to be like speed lettering, or 1706.  The photo is  fuzzy, 
> but not
> > enough to blur things to the extent it would put the number out of 
> focus.
> 
> 	PRCo was extremely consistent with its paint schemes.  
> Except for
> wartime restrictions, the 17s were the first of the PCCs to show a
> different paint scheme - and that is the hourglass front dash!  The
> numbering remained the same but the gold-leaf numerals were 
> difficult to
> see on the cream dash so this was quickly replaced with simple black
> numbers - but not the speedo type!
> 	I would think that it is a problem of focus plus the car 
> moving.
> Remember, the most common ASA on film in those days was 10, 25 at 
> the
> most.  The photographer had to be extremely still as did the 
> subject.
> If the car was moving as the photo was snapped, this would be enough 
> to
> blur the numbers.
> 	Ed will probably check in on this one as he is an 
> accomplished
> photographer, dark room professional!
> 
> James B. Holland
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> 1953
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