[PRCo] Re: Mislabled Negative Envelope

[Fred Schneider]

Wouldn't it be nice to have in 1940, 1950 and 1960 ...

a.  a camera with the computer generated optics that we have today so  
that every lens is perfect,

b.  a color film with the speed of 100 ASA for normal work that has  
the has the shadow detail like you can get with digital  processes  
and the grain of Kodanchrome, the projection dye longevity of today's  
Ektachrome and the dark storage dye longevity of Kodachrome (i.e.  
something you could project over and over and over and still it will  
last a 100 years).

c.  and a color film for working at night that you can push to 1000  
ASA like today's digital cameras???????

Back in 1972 I carted both a 4x5 Graphic and a 2 6x6 cm Mamiya reflex  
with me to photograph the Milwaukee Road electrification in Montana   
(plus a second Mamiya for 6x6 Ektachrome slides and a Miranda for  
35mm Kodachromes ... I was not  yet into Nikons).   I was amazed that  
the pictures taken on 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 were actually sharper when blown  
up to 8x10 than the stuff taken with the 4x5.   Lens had shown a  
remarkable improvement between the 1950s and the 1970s and the film  
had improved by light years.

On Jan 4, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Donald Galt wrote:

> On 4 Jan 2007 at 11:43, Fred Schneider wrote:
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>> Tha woman had a flair for pictures.   Shame she didn't have a camera
>> to go with the artistic brain.
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> Yup. We ought to go back and re-shoot them. That's the urge I get  
> constantly on
> looking at my own decades-old pics.
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> I've never before seen anything beginning to approach the wealth of  
> views of
> this one short stretch of street. Roberta didn't wait for the  
> perfect shot, she
> just clicked, clicked, clicked. Quantity really does have its virtues.
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> Two observations:
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> 1. In most pictures, North St. looks like an upgrade. PAT0002  
> almost uniquely
> makes it look like a downgrade. A really careful study of the topo  
> map elicits
> the conclusion that it is probably nearly level, though ever so  
> slightly higher
> at the Perrysville Ave. end.
>
> 2. PAT0020 proves that at least one operator didn't mind having Ms  
> Hill taking
> his picture.
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> Don G
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