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Re: (rshsdepot) Kodak Confirms Plans To Discontinue Kodachrome 25Film

Another amazing film and I think they still have it is Recording Film, B&W
3200 ASA. If you shoot it in the brightest sunshine and then blow it up, the
grain is positively amazing....
- -----Original Message-----
From: David Wayne Hurd <dave_@_the-hurds.com>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Kodak Confirms Plans To Discontinue Kodachrome
25Film


>Kodak Tech Pan film is very nice for bright scenes. I expose it at an ASA
>of 12 (yes, twelve) and process it myself in Kodak Technidol developer,
>Sprint chemicals for the rest of the process. It is also great for
>portraiture.
>
>The higher the ASA you shoot it, the more it reacts like Kodalith film.
>
>Dave
>
>>Until about 10 years ago Kodak was the best company....you could get film
>>for virtually any old camera...almost no film or filter was discontinued.
>>127 film for an old VPK (VestPocketKodak-the soldiers camera in WWI, the
>>first true pocket camera), 620 for the old Brownie, 616, 126,
anything....I
>>liked using Photomicrography slide film because it oversaturated
>>colors....Then they went modern and while once you could call them and get
>>an answer to virtually any question, technical or historic, now they know
>>very little when you call...Where once all types of films and filters were
>>still available, now they pare back so much it is sad...
>>
>>I still miss Pan-X B&W, another low ASA now defunct...
>>
>>Absolutely nothing exists any more that is perfect for snow or the
>>beach...the lower the ASA the better for that for me for high reflective
>>light situations...
>>
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