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Re: (erielack) Kodak Kills 2 of 3 Kodachromes
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Gary R. Kazin wrote:
>
> It's a good thing I bought a digital camera a few weeks ago, the Sony
> Mavica CD-1000. It records 152 photos on an 8cm CD-R that costs $4 and I
> can view them on my computer at home instantly - no waiting 7 days for it
> to get to Fairlawn and come back, wondering if the USPS will manage to
> lose it. Now I just have to figure out how to show them at club meetings.
> Guess I will print the best ones at home and pass them around.
It looks like time for the serious slide show groups to get computer LCD
projector panels! Unfortunately the decent high-res units are still up in the
many thousands of $$ range.
Digital imaging is still in its infancy. Digital SLR bodies are just now
starting to come down in price, but they have a long way to go before I would
consider them affordable. I lust for a Canon D30 EOS Digital body which can use
the same lenses as my Elan IIe and pack over 200 decent shots onto my IBM
Microdrive CFII card, but at a $2500 street price for just the body that's
almost double what I spent for the full Elan setup with a big Tamron lens. It'll
have to wait a while.
I have been shooting more with my Canon Powershot digital and less with the 35
Elan in recent months. For any noteworthy or tough to compose shots the 35
still gets the nod as the little digital jobbie just doesn't zoom close enough
or let me fiddle enough settings. While it's 1600x1280 jpegs are great for
dumping onto the web it can't get close to the 2800 DPI of the slide scanner. Of
course it takes about 1/10th (maybe even less :) the effort to get the photos
-From the digital camera into the computer and after a few minutes of captioning
I have a permanent and deterioration free photo album viewable from anywhere on
earth from which there is an internet connection.
There is just cause to mourn the loss of Kodachrome, but technology is just
beginning to provide us with some viable "professional class" alternatives and
nobody can dispute that the internet has provided us with a simple and easy way
to share our photos with anyone who wants to see them.
I'm not happy about it, but I'll get by just fine without K25 and even K200,
heck, I don't even use the K's much anymore because it takes so long to get my
shots back compared to the E6ers. I haven't been a fan of Kodak as a company
since they cleaned house in the early 90's and instituted the bean counter
mentality administration.
What does all this digial imaging talk have to do with the EL? Just visit
George's site which has dazzled more train enthusiasts than you can shake a
stick at. Just imagine what all would be available to view today if quality
digital cameras were around in the 60's and 70's...
Henry
J. Henry Priebe Jr. Blue Moon President & Network Administrator
root_@_bluemoon.net www.bluemoon.net - Blue Moon Internet Corp
V.90, X2 & K56flex www.railfan.net - The Railfan Network
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