In those days, Kodak was always my favourite brand of film. I used to prefer Kodak to Fuji or Agfa because I reckon the Kodak colours came out more intense or brighter. Do you remember watching Kodak ads in the cinema or on TV ads, where they talked about the "Kodak moment", meaning a rare, one-time moment that is captured with a photo, or should have been captured with a photo ?
"Kodachrome" is the trademarked brand name of a type of color reversal film that was manufactured by Eastman Kodak from 1935 to 2009. Kodachrome was the first successfully mass-marketed color still film using the so-called "subtractive" method., in contrast to earlier additive "screenplate" methods such as Autochrome and Dufaycolor. Kodachrome remained the oldest brand of color film. As digital photography progressively reduced the demand for film in the 2000s, Kodachrome sales steadily declined and in June 2009 Eastman Kodak announced the end of Kodachrome production.
Inspired by this film, "Kodachrome" was also the name of a very popular song written by Paul Simon (of the singing duo Simon & Garfunkel) around 1973. Can't remember the tune? Here's a treat .... have a listen.
I loved this song as a teenager, and it still brings back very pleasant memories.
During the early years of the 21st century, there was fierce debate among professional photographers on the relative advantages of lens-based cameras over their digital counterparts. I guess in the early generations of digital cameras, it was true that professional lens-based SLRs were much better, but with the rapid advance of digital technology and the ever increasing resolution (in Megapixels) of DSLRs, I find this debate has largely gone silent.
BTW, here are some pictures of old cameras that I recently saw in a shop in HCMC ...
Do share your own photographic adventures.
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Who uses Canon DSLRs? Share experiences.
ReplyDeleteYea, it was either Kodak or Agfa. Both were preferred even among those with the Photographic Society.
ReplyDeleteWondering how the Photographic Society is doing now and whether they prefer Canon or Nikon or Olympus or Sony or other brands of DSLRs.
Can we have some feedback from whoever might be photographic enthusiasts among the Josephians? Maybe we can exchange tips here.
ReplyDeleteI remember playing with chemicals and developing my own photos in the darkroom of the Photographic Society at St Joe. Those were fun times.
ReplyDeleteET, then you should remember Agfa, you should remember all the photos you developed were black and white, you should remember Mr. Sebastien. But do you remember the smell of the chemicals?
ReplyDeleteYeah PS member, I do remember the chemical smells well. In fact that started me off on a long journey of chemical aromatheraphy (aka "glue sniffing") from which I have just completed my dependency rehabilitation program. LOL
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ReplyDeleteLooks like ET was fixed by the fixer. Hehehe
ReplyDeleteHa ha .. a photo developing dark room sounds so primitive in today's age of digital photography.
ReplyDeleteET, were you standing on your head while typing? Was it the monitor screen that was upside down?
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ReplyDeleteGuys, can you remember what old cameras you had?
ReplyDeleteWhat I find more interesting is the software that runs those new fangled digital cameras. Particularly for digital video. Microsoft has a interesting project to use a person's body as a video game cotroller, using a video camera and clever image analysis software. There is an interesting "marketing" clip of idea here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oACt9R9z37U
ReplyDeleteUsing a person's body as a video game controller eh? I can suggest what will be the JOYSTICK ! heeheehee
ReplyDeleteThat's a real cruisy tune. It's reminds me of the simpler sunny days. Back to the present, how would you like to own one of these 160 megapixellated babies - http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d438/d925/f934.cfm ?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of video cameras, some of the latest batch of pocket videocams are quite cool.
ReplyDeleteYes, am sure WJ will introduce you to the Cisco Flip camera. Right WJ?
ReplyDeleteI still have the small pocket camera like the one in the first photo, bottom right, something similar to it, and still in it's original box!
ReplyDeleteCANON DLSRs are BEST ! Nothing else comes close!
ReplyDeleteNikon is the No. 1 brand and its DSLRs are the top seller in Malaysia and maybe Singapore as well. Canon does come close though.
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