My father shot transparencies almost exclusively, and I took up where he left off. I still have a lot of slides I shot when I was only ten years old or so. Most of them are 127 Ektachrome. My dad shot 6x6 ektachrome with an Agfa. We had a projector that cold handle both and reviewed them frequently. Reliving vacations was the high point. I started shooting for car magazines in the mid seventies, at the same time that my kids were born. So again I shot lots of transparency film, both for publication and the family pics. I bought the best Kodak carousel and entertained the kids with pictures of themselves. I worked full time as a high school English teacher in those days and served as photographer to the school football team. Every week I presented a slide show for the team, which was always a big hit. Eventually I moved to New York to work full time for a magazine and photography became more of a job and less of a hobby. I was commuting three hours a day and travelling a lot! , and the slide projector stayed in the closet. It remained packed away until last year, when I pulled it out and found some carousels full of 1970s kid pics. We had some fun watching them once again, but it seemed like a lot of work. I haven't taken it out again. I think we've been spoiled by the convenience of contemporary entertainments. I can put together an I-photo slide show in a matter of seconds and watch it play automatically. The projector is probably doomed to sit in the closet. Paul
> frank theriault wrote: > > >On 9/12/05, Herb Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>OTOH, Kodachrome is certain to be one of the fastest ones to be > >>discontinued. niche product in an already niche market. slide film accounted > >>for about 2% of Fuji's film sales in 2003. > >> > >> > > > >You raise an interesting point, Herb. When I was a kid (like early > >60's) my dad (who shot with a Yashica A tlr - the poor man's Mat, > >which was the poor man's Rolleiflex <g>) shot probably 80% chrome. > >He'd set up the projector, tape a sheet on the wall (we were too poor > >for a proper screen) and we'd all sit down to look at a new set of > >slides. > > > >When he did shoot prints, it was inevitably b&w. > > > >I recall that when I got my first 35mm camera, I shot a lot of chrome, > >a lot of b&w prints, and pretty much no colour prints. > > > >So, what killed chromes? The advent of C41? I can't believe that > >alone did it. Because while it certainly made colour prints > >economical for the snapshot consumer, the price differential didn't > >kill black and white, it merely wounded it. > > > >Any thoughts? > > > >cheers, > >frank > > > > > > > Frank, > > That's pretty much the way I shoot today, although I shoot primarily > B&W. Chromes are my standard colour films, I only shoot colour neg when > I need lots of speed, or I get a bunch really cheap (Gotta love $1 Likon > 200). > > I'd have to say the death of the slideshow killed chromes for most > folks. People like prints. > > -Adam >
