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RockitRon



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:18 pm    Post subject: Kodachrome No More Reply with quote

Another old famous name falls victim to the digital age - Kodak has announced that it is to stop producing Kodachrome slide/transparency film. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/23/kodachrome-colour-film-photograpy-paul-simon-afghan-girl

In the days when I had a Pentax SLR (weighed a ton, fiddly screw-fit lenses) I always preferred slides, especially for scenery, and things, and tried hard not to bore everyone at Christmas with slide-shows of our summer hols.

When son came along in 1988 everyone wanted prints quickly and easily, so slides got the elbow, although I still have boxes of them, plus projector and two screens (I "inhertited" one) in the loft.

You can buy a "digitiser" to transfer them to PC. I've read mixed reports of these - does anyone have any experience of them? Indeed, does anyone still take slides, or, like me, just have them in storage?
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Helen May



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saw an item on the news about this Ron.

My OH has cupboards full of slides, mostly of aircraft, but about 3 years ago switched over to digital as obtaining slide as becoming more and more difficult.

I suggested on of those 'digitisers' to him but he seems to think the specification isn't high enough for him, heaven knows why?? I'm sure they would be fine for most pictures though.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The main criticism of them seems to be that the end result looks over-exposed and loses some sharpness/detail. I think it might be worthwhile to wait for future, hopefully improved models.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They will come I'm sure Ron. A Christmas or birthday present when they do and some cupboard space back. Wink

I've loads of negatives, can you do the same with them?

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe so, H. The ads in the Sunday papers all mention negatives as well as slides.

My slides are mostly scenic, of holidays to places like Scotland, Norway, Austria and the former Yugoslavia, before I got married. They would certainly be looked at more often if I put them on disc/PC.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Helen May wrote:
I've loads of negatives, can you do the same with them?


Certainly, Helen. Just flip from positive to negative in the image editing program (eg: Photoshop or whatever).

The key to good slide/neg scanning is to ensure that they're clean (use a compressed air can) and that you scan at high resolution.

Many of the low cost scanners aren't that good, though, and are only recommended for simple archive usage.
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