[PRCo] Re: Films

[Bob Rathke]

That's me in the Sentinel.  I've been contributing B&O photos to the Sentinel since the late 1990's, and now I've started to send them photos of some of my B&O railroadiana. My photos have also appeared in several Bob Withers and Mike Zollitsch B&O books in the past year.  



Bob  






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dwight Long" <dwightlong at verizon.net> 
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 1:16:34 PM 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Films 

Bob 

There was a Bob Rathke "cited favorably in dispatches" in the current Sentinel. Â That cannot be a very common name. Â  

One and the same? 

Dwight 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Rathke 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Thursday, 12 May, 2011 19:26 
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Films 



  Yes, painting the kitchen ceiling, trips, naps.� I'll add - cleaning out the basement. 



  Bob 








  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net> 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:14:55 PM 
  Subject: [PRCo] Films 

  I think the Ansco products were very bad when you stacked them against Kodachrome. � We all know that Kodachrome had extreme dye logevity, particularly dark storage. � Compared to E4 Ektachrome, the Anscochrome probably held up better. � I have a few slides that my father took in the early 1950s on Anscocolor that lasted longer than Ektachrome E4 process from 1960. � The anecdotes were probably Ansco versus Kodachrome. � 
  At one time Lancaster city had four camera stores and one was an Ansco dealer. � Even he admitted that it was difficult to sell the Blue and Red boxes. � He said, "The yellow box sells." � But both of them had similar black and white papers and chemistry. � They all, for example, developed buffered borax developers in the 1930s for moderately fine grain work. � Why? � Because Ernst Leitz and others were developing miniature cameras to use motion picture size film (35mm) in casettes and we needed something to get a little more detail out of the negatives. � � Agfa Ansco's formula book called their's Developer number 17. � Kodak called their's D-76. � They were essentially the same thing. � i imagine if I could find a Dupont or a Gevaert formula book, I would find a similar product. � In time everything in this country disappeared except for Kodak and imports from Germany or Japan. � 

  On the subject of black and white, it has been about 13 years since I last exposed and processed a roll of film. � The last roll I took was when I was asked to come to my 40th high school reunion with a camera. � We are now up to 53 years. � I've printed black and white negatives within the last month but I have not exposed any. � 

  Preferred? � I used Kodachrome until it became obvious to me that it wasn't going to survive and then I switched to Fuji Astia about two or three years before the final demise of the Kodak product. � I still have some unexposed Kodachrome if anyone wants to make a remember when display. � Use depends on how many trips I take in a year. � Last year I didn't even use an entire brick of film. � This year I'm thinking of driving to Salt Lake City for the August 7th opening of the two light rail lines ... might use up 10 rolls on that trip. � I think we got wiped out of the Japan trip but now several of us are talking a month in either France or Italy next year and that ought to be good for 20 or so rolls of slides. � I will probably take both slides and digital. � 

  Finally bought a Nikon D-90 a few years ago. � The uncredited photo of 4398 in a recent trains magazine was taken by me with the D-90. � I also bought a Canon printer a few months ago but it still sits here unconnected. � One of these days I'll wire it in and make some prints. � 

  There just seem to be so many other things that get in the way ... painting the kitchen ceiling, trips, naps. � 



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