[PRCo] Re: Insanity Reigns

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I've recently finished a quick trip through my father's multi-thousand slide
collection that began in 1938.  The early Kodachromes are indeed the same as
when processed, but 1938 Kodachrome was too blue, 1940 Kodachrome too
yellow.  The wartime stuff on is very accurate, assuming a correct exposure.
Unfortunately, also present were the Ektachrome experiments of 1956-58 and
worse yet, the 5247 fad of the '70s and '80s.  At least the latter came with
semi-stable negatives so that anything worthwhile can be easily printed out
on the computer, but even before the slides faded away to brown the color
was nowhere close to Kodachrome.

I began shooting slides in 1961, using a couple rolls of "surplus"
Ektachrome during a visit to Chicago.  There are some daylight shots of the
El that still look good, while the night shots off the top of the Prudential
building have a lot of blue lights in them.  Since then I've stayed nearly
100% Kodachrome and don't regret the decision.

Ed

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Bob
Rathke
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:55 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Insanity Reigns



My uncle took Kodachrone slides in the early 1940's, and they still have the
color that they had 60 years ago.

I took Kodacolor negative photos in the 1950's, and started to use
Kodachrome for slides in 1959.  In 1959, Kodachrome had an ASA rating of a
whopping "10" (I use ASA 200 film now), but my 1959 photos have retained
their color as if they were taken yesterday.

Bob 65/01

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Kenneth Josephson wrote:

> Donald Galt wrote:
>
> > On 5 Jun 01, at 12:54, Kenneth Josephson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Mind you, I might pay $205.00 for an authentic postcard of
> > > Sprague's 1888 Richmond operation.......or would I?  :-)
> >
> > For a full-colour photo, maybe.
>
> Gotcha! :-) Like that "5-Bedford" car Roberta was posing with! I guess I
> would pay for an authentic 19th Century photograph....hee-hee-hee!
>
> Seriously, wasn't color slide film available starting aroung 1928 or
> '29? Ed? Fred? John?
>
> To get back on topic, here's a trivia question I do not have the answer
> to:
>
> What is the oldest known color photo of a Pittsburgh trolley?
>
> Ken J.