Is anyone else unhappy with today's films?

[George Mann]

You haven't presented any evidence to support your claims.

I learned a very long time ago that I cannot teach the blind to see!

 

[eddie]

I don't know how long you've been making photographs. Losing materials has always been a part of it. Good photographers learn to master what is available. Poor photographers complain about their tools. You must be one of the latter.

 

[removed account4]

In which alternate universe did this fail to occur?

all your claims about kodachrome have failed to tell me anything except you have been shooting it since the 70s and you miss kodachrome.

no alternative universe ... you haven't explained what you mean by rendering and ability to show "realism"
all films portrays realism.
maybe instead of insulting people claiming they are in an alternate reality, or are blind, or insulting one of the people who actually was on the patent form for K14 kodachrome
articulate what you are talking about?

 

[film_man]

Maybe if you stop trying viewing Portra via a projector as if it was Kodachrome it will help?

This is the most bizarre thread I've ever read. Actually...reminds me of another one years ago in photo.net about Kodachrome. This guy was adamant that there is nothing like Kodachrome and nobody else could see what he meant. After a long thread of similar claims one of the worst photos ever was posted as evidence. Now that was funny.

 

[removed account4]

it wasn't michael scharpalino was it ?

 

[George Mann]

articulate what you are talking about?

So far you have completely failed to comprehend a thing that I have said. Do you really want to take this any further?

 

[railwayman3]

I don't know how long you've been making photographs. Losing materials has always been a part of it. Good photographers learn to master what is available. Poor photographers complain about their tools. You must be one of the latter.

Years ago I knew an old guy who had an amazing collection of record slides of his local area, buildings, streets, landscapes, trains (steam in those daya), where everywhere looked gorgeous, even the grotty run-down areas. All the slides were on Kodachrome (some going back to Kodachrome I), but his "secret" was that every shot was taken on a sunny day with blue skies and fluffy white clouds. He said himself that there was no point in using Kodachrome in any other weather "it just looked yuck", and, IMHE, he was right. Apart from his "Kodachrome in sunshine", he used entirely B&W...and was a great picture-maker with that too.

 

[George Mann]

This guy was adamant that there is nothing like Kodachrome and nobody else could see what he meant.

And so far, you have failed to prove us wrong!

 

[removed account4]

So far you have completely failed to comprehend a thing that I have said. Do you really want to take this any further?

you are right, i haven't comprehended anything you have said
mainly because you really have very little to say ...
other than kodachrome was great everything else stinks
and if you don't get it, it isn't worth explaining it to you...

 

[film_man]

Kodachrome is horrible. The best film is made by Schrodinger's. It is the best film ever. Everything else is subpar. What does it look like you ask? Well I can't tell you though what it looks like because if I have to tell you won't see it anyway. But I can tell you this: it is the best film ever.

 

[film_man]

it wasn't michael scharpalino was it ?

Doesn't ring a bell, then again it was years ago. Can't remember really.

 

[Photo Engineer]

I think it best we continue to take the bait from this person. George Mann is trolling and getting bite after bite with absolutely no proof of his assertions.

I also think it is best that this thread be closed.

PE