[PRCo] Re: Tylerdale

[Fred Schneider]

My father once wrote a letter to Eastman Kodak complaining that there  
was no color in his Kodachrome on a gray day and Kodak wrote back  
that there was no color in the subject.  Please note also that this  
would have been Kodachrome 1 (Weston 8 or ASA 10) which exhibited a  
lot less ability to render subtle differences in color than  
Kodachrome 2 (ASA/ISO 25) that was introduced in the late 1950s.     
That probably would have been on some winter snow scenes that he took  
during World War II.
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I can find a date for Kodachrome 25 being introduced and that was  
1961.   However, I know that it was originally called Kodachrome II  
and was actually available sometime in the late 1950s under that name  
but I cannot put a year on it.   My recollection is that one or more  
former Kodak engineers broke away with the old patents and went to  
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) and produced briefly a film  
called Dynachrome in the late 1950s which was the old Kodachrome 1  
under another name.   I never used it.   I played with Kodacolor at  
that time but didn't get into slides until 1960, and then made the  
mistake of using Ektachrome (E3) resulting in a lot of magenta slides  
today.

I truly suspect that the colors in that picture are as close as  
you're going to get to realism and that the red and cream streetcar  
is the only object on a gray day that had any color other than  
various intensities of gray.

Fred3

On Dec 29, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Donald Galt wrote:

> It's unlikely that the landscape would have photographed totally  
> colourless
> while 1707 would stand out in vivid, if approximate, PRCo livery.  
> It seems
> evident that the somebody tinted the PCC on a b&w photograph.  
> Tinting was a not
> uncommon skill back in the bad old days.
>
> The two photos are not taken from exactly the same spot. Compare  
> the line poles
> in relation to the Buick (?, Oldsmobile?).
>
> On a related subject, I'm a little surprised at how many duplicate  
> pictures
> Derrick is storing in these files - second copies of many,  
> including these two,
> and no less than six of <Tylerdale 0096 195xxxxx RSchramm.jpg>. No  
> problem if
> there is plenty of room, but possibly more than needed.
>
> Don Galt
>
>