Rochester news about Kodak

[Photo Engineer]

Thanks, but I have also met some great photo engineers from Bulgaria at society meetings!

Where are they nowdays?

PE

 

[georg16nik]

Things are pretty much low profile over here..
I will ask around if there's any chance to get You in touch with any of the photo veterans.

 

[CuS]

Ron, thanks for your insight into these issues. I too have a pretty deep background in coating and I can attest that the scaling up of a production run and the vagaries of long vs short runs are ridiculously crazy. Only a company with brilliant minds, deep pockets and lots of patience can truly fine-tune coating systems.

Kodak/Fuji/Ilford are such companies - they are so good at what they do that we take them and their excellent products for granted. There is no way for the typical film user to truly appreciate the genius that modern film emulsions and coatings truly represent.

It is truly a demon-haunted world.

 

[msa]

Not the silence in the coating room I'm worried about, sadly.

 

[Ray Rogers]

Not the silence in the coating room I'm worried about, sadly.

???

It IS the silence in the coating room we are worried about, right?

 

[Ray Rogers]

Thanks, but I have also met some great photo engineers from Bulgaria at society meetings!

Where are they nowdays?

PE

Were they female by any chance?

 

[Steve Smith]

age, looks and overweight doesn't matter when You are a Man of honor

He was talking about Sean Connery!



Steve.

 

[georg16nik]

He was talking about Sean Connery!



Steve.

Steve, I trust that PE & Sean Connery are both Men of honor.

 

[Steve Smith]

Steve, I trust that PE & Sean Connery are both Men of honor.

I'm sure they are.... although Sean Connery would spell it correctly!! (honour).


Steve.

 

[lxdude]

I'm sure they are.... although Sean Connery would spell it correctly!! (honour).
Steve.

He meant Honor Blackman!
PE, you ol' rascal you!

 

[georg16nik]

I'm sure they are.... although Sean Connery would spell it correctly!! (honour).


Steve.

Steve, the thread is about Kodak. In the US is spelled honor http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/honor
In British its spelled honour but I am not brit, so, I am free to spell it as in the US.
There is no doubt that Sir Sean Connery is true to the Queen's English ways.

 

[JayGannon]

Steve, the thread is about Kodak. In the US is spelled honor http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/honor
In British its spelled honour but I am not brit, so, I am free to spell it as in the US.
There is no doubt that Sir Sean Connery is true to the Queen's English ways.

Hehehe since when is 'British' a language?

 

[Steve Smith]

There is no doubt that Sir Sean Connery is true to the Queen's English ways.

Despite being Scottish?



Steve.

 

[bblhed]

Well, it has been mentioned that Kodak is working on new film products.

PE

Perhaps we can hope that the reason that the film division lost money is because they spent a lot on R&D for these new products. Please let that be it.

For me the worst part of this is that I have just decided that after watching the home movies my parents shot of me, or rather the lack of them, I had decided to get a super 8 camera and film my own children. I inherited two shoe boxes full of movies that were stored in questionable conditions that ran fine. My wife has a video tape her parents shot that looks like TV on rabbit ears.

 

[removed account4]

Well, it has been mentioned that Kodak is working on new film products.

PE

while i think it is great that they are making new products if i take a step back
it reminds me of that scene in the movie tampopo when the woman is dying,
and preparing a meal for her family.

 

[georg16nik]

Hehehe since when is 'British' a language?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_language_(disambiguation)

Sorry for spamming the thread, a bit

 

[Photo Engineer]

To disambiguate things and stay in Scottish mode, I look more like Sylvester McCoy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_McCoy . And for the record I am part Scottish and part Irish. A noble combination IMHO!

PE

 

[michaelbsc]

To disambiguate things and stay in Scottish mode, I look more like Sylvester McCoy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_McCoy . And for the record I am part Scottish and part Irish. A noble combination IMHO!

PE

Wow, my family is part thief and part bootlegger. Do we get any credit?

 

[Focus No. 9]

Wow, my family is part thief and part bootlegger. Do we get any credit?

Absolutely! That's the American Way!

 

[Terrence Brennan]

To disambiguate things and stay in Scottish mode, I look more like Sylvester McCoy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_McCoy . And for the record I am part Scottish and part Irish. A noble combination IMHO!

PE

Speaking as one who is 3/4 Irish and 1/4 Scot (my father's mother was a Scot), I heartily agree with that statement.

(An old friend from High School, who had a thoroughly Scottish surname, was often asked if he could claim any Scottish ancestry. The question was usually something like, "Do you have any Scotch in you?" and his reply was invariably, "Yeah, I have six fifths in me!")

 

[Sirius Glass]

I am a 1/4 Scotch and 3/4 Gin! Or is it 1/5 dry Vermouth and 4/5 Gin plus two olives?

 

[Photo Engineer]

Stirred, not shaken!

PE

 

[lxdude]

I am a 1/4 Scotch and 3/4 Gin! Or is it 1/5 dry Vermouth and 4/5 Gin plus two olives?

And your former ole lady made sure you were on the rocks!

 

[Sirius Glass]

I remembered while drinking recently that according to one in the dreaded Kodak has deleted Kodachrome thread that magenta is not a color! Is that true or should we all just get a bong?

 

[Photo Engineer]

Alright, color.......

The visible spectrum is defined as the radiation from 400 - 700 nanometers. Colors are defined as narrower regions within that range of human sensitivity that stimulate one or more receptors within the eye to give a particular sensation differing one from another based on that range. The eye has 3 types of receptors. See here: http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/6d.html

There are 6 fundamental colors defined as being either made up of the presence of one of those regions, or the absence of one of those regions. Therefore the first is also defined by the absence of two regions and the second is defined as the absence of one region. These two sets of 3 colors are called additive and subtractive colors.

Blue = presence of Blue and absence of Green and Red
Green = presence of Green and absence of Blue and Red
Red = presence of Red and absence of Blue and Green
White = presence of Blue, Green and Red

Cyan = absence of Red or presence of Green and Blue
Magenta = absence of Green or presence of Blue and Red
Yellow = absence of Blue or presence of Green and Red
Black = absence of Red, Green and Blue

Collectively they comprise the additive and subtractive systems of color theory and vision. Additive systems are used for TV and all digital products that I can think of. Subtractive systems are used for analog products and magazine printing.

This is just a brief summary for you OTOMH early in the morning before breakfast!

PE