[AccessD] Very OT: Kodak will retire KODACHROME Film

Helmut Kotsch hkotsch at arcor.de
Wed Jun 24 14:35:18 CDT 2009


Jim,
I had app. 10.000 slides (Kodachrome II with carton frame) mostly taken in
the 60 ties and seventies in the US. I bought the Reflecta DigitDia 3600.
Today they offer the DigitDia 5000.
http://www.reflecta.de/Englisch/Seiten/Start.htm I paid including the
SilverSoft software app. 700 Euros. The scanner works like a slide projector
and is actually derived from one. You put in a rail or other magazine with
50 or 100 slides and let it work for itself. 50 slides with a 3600 dpi
resolution take app. 2 hours. The scanned images (app. 45 MBytes) are
transferred via USB or IEEE-1394 to your PC. After that the file is being
compressed as jpeg of app. 4 MByte. Everything worked fine and looking the
scanned slides with a beamer is as good as looking the original slides with
a slide projector. Since you need this scanner only one time (you are not
taking any slides anymore) the idea is to sell it afterwards in eBay. There
is a big market for these scanners here in Germany. You could get a used
scanner starting with 200 Euros. Since they are only used for a couple of
month and the guaranty is 3 years there shouldn't be a problem with defects
of the equipment. Even though my slides are 30 years old, the colors and
overall quality is still perfect. That was Kodachrome II. I also had some
Agfa slides but they all have changed colors to the blue over time.

Hope that helps

Helmut

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim Lawrence
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2009 20:23
An: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Betreff: Re: [AccessD] Very OT: Kodak will retire KODACHROME Film


Totally OT

Hi Gustav and all:

I used 64 ASA slide film for years. Though the quality of the pictures were
stunning, seeing them, other than through a slide projector, was difficult
and to now transfer them to high quality digital format is nearly
impossible... I have never found a really good way to do this.

If anyone out has had a similar situation and has arrived at a good solution
(reasonably priced), I would be very interested.

Jim

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:57 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Very OT: Kodak will retire KODACHROME Film

Hi all
Neither is this Access related in any way nor is it Friday but ...

This had to come given the evolution of digital photography. Still, it was
one of those announcements you didn't wish to experience.


http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2709&gpcid=0900688a80b4
e692&pq-locale=en_US&CID=pressreleases

I still remember the astonishment when I received from the laboratory the
first roll I shot and viewed the amazing colour quality of this low-speed
film. That is many years ago and in the meantime I've left analogue film
completely.

For a very good reason a memorial site is up:

  http://homepage.1000words.kodak.com/default.asp?item=2388083

/gustav


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