[PRCo] Re: Subject: Film Discontinuance

[Fred Schneider]

Next time you are in Lancaster I'll have to take you to Coe Camera.  Matt has a
40 inch wide print on the hall, taken with the Nikon D100.  I had to get up on
a ladder just inches in front of it before I could see the lack of sharpness.
I hate to admit that they are that good.  But, it still does not give me an
easily projectable slide.  I don't want prints ... they take up too much space.

"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

> I've been very happy getting acquainted with the Nikon D100 (6.1 megapixel)
> I acquired for the business last summer.  It's plenty big (capacity- and
> quality-wise) for anything I'm likely to do, and of course accepts my
> existing AF and other lenses, albeit at a 50% focal length penalty.  I've
> been slow to get onto the software, but sat at the computer the other night
> cleaning (white-balancing) 100 or so images exposed the day Fred and I went
> to the National Archives.  This was before I learned to adjust the white
> balance in the camera.  Now I just have to rename the files and I can give
> him his copies!
>
> Yes, we will have to buy the digital projectors, but I've asked Santa for a
> new Kodak this holiday season so I'll have a fresh one in stock.  I've
> acquired three older ones with average service of 30+ years (they just keep
> on going and going) but think a new one would be nice.
>
> I guess if we made the switch from typewriters and telephones to computers
> and email that we can learn to live with digital images.  But they're not
> going to be the same, no matter how good they are!
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of John
> F Bromley
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:43 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Subject: Film Discontinuance
>
> So now we'll have to buy one of those $1500 projectors that  load from the
> hard disk.
>
> I've already discontinued taking slides.  In the next few months my CanonA2
> and its various lenses are going to be traded in for Nikon digital that
> accepts interchangeable lenses.  Our current Nikon 5400 digital (which you
> saw last March) does an excellent job for a 5 megapixel camera but that's
> Margaret's camera and the male of the species has to have a bigger (and
> better) one - it says so in the manual.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
> To: "pittsburgh railways" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:24 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Subject: Film Discontinuance
>
> >
> >
> > You have probably already read the public announcement that Kodak will
> > discontinue the production of all color slide projectors in January.  If
> >
> > projectors go, then film cannot be far behind.  Right?
> >
> > I asked my dealer yesterday for scuttlebutt ...  Response?  Kodachrome
> > will be discontinued in 12 months and all E6 films in 24 months.  He
> > said that there was dissension from the board of directors over the
> > plans so it is not a dead certainty.
> >
> > Don't ask ... you know all I know.
> >
> > I guess I'm going to buy that $1500 digital Nikon sooner than I had
> > planned.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >