[PRCo] Re: Slide color

[Fred Schneider]

Soft focus?   Would not surprise me.   Most 8 mm movie cameras had  
fixed focus lenses.

But, there was no reason to have anything else ...  the focal length  
of a normal lens would only be about 6 mm and that would give  
tremendous depth of focus.   I think my father had a telephoto lens  
that did have adjustable focus.   It's not like playing with a 180 mm  
standard lens on my 4x5 view camera.

Gotta go to the darkroom.

HAVE A GREAT 2007 EVERYONE.   MAY YOU WIN AT THE LOTTERY OF LIFE.

On Dec 31, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Bob Rathke wrote:

> The earliest Kodachrome-10 slides I have were taken in 1954, and  
> the colors
> are still vivid, especially the reds.
>
> My uncle used Kodachrome-10 slide film in the late 1940's, and the  
> color is
> still good.  He also shot a few rolls of 8mm movie film in 1946, and I
> assume it was Kodachrome - the color is also still good, but the  
> focus is
> soft - probably caused by a very simple movie camera.
>
> Bob 12/31/06
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 6:22 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Slide color
>
>
>> Color dyes were also a problem for Kodak in the earliest years with
>> Kodachrome but so few people used it that very few examples are
>> around to show just how badly the earliest Kodachrome transparencies
>> faded.   I have seen some movies taken on it in 1936 which were a
>> disaster.
>>
>> However, by the late 1930s the problems were solved.   I have some
>> slides here that my father took of me as an infant in 1940 that still
>> have gorgeous color.   And Jim Shuman and John Seibert, both of
>> Lancaster, were taking color slides of electric subjects as early as
>> 1940-1941.   I know Jim's first attempt used a single roll of 828
>> Kodachrome in the camera he borrowed from Johnny.   He took them on
>> the fantrip on the Indiana Railroad using cars 376 and 58 between
>> Indianapolis, New Castle, Fort Wayne, "Pee-ru", and back to
>> Indianapolis.   Those slides are still beautiful.   I think Frank
>> Butts and Eugene Van Deusen were into color before the war too.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 31, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Donald Galt wrote:
>>
>>> On 30 Dec 2006 at 8:35, Bob Rathke wrote:
>>>
>>>> I started taking slides with ASA10 Kodachome.  Kodachrome slides
>>>> that I took
>>>> in the 1950's have held their color very well; I don't recall
>>>> getting any
>>>> gray (colorless) slides on dreary days, but with a whopping speed
>>>> of 10, I
>>>> probably didn't try to take many Kodachrome-10 photos on overcast
>>>> days.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know what I was thinking before: I did in fact take a
>>> number of shots
>>> with Kodachrome 10. All of which, last I looked, had held up nicely.
>>>
>>> For the same reason you state - speed - I occasionally used
>>> Ektachrome. Haven't
>>> looked at a lot of them recently, but I don't recall having noticed
>>> more than a
>>> couple of rolls gone green.
>>>
>>> In New Zealand in the earliest 1960s, an incentive for using
>>> Ektachrome was
>>> that we had to send all our Kodachrome to Australia. It was a red-
>>> letter day
>>> when a processing lab was opened in (Christchurch, I think) in 1962
>>> or so.
>>>
>>> Don G
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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