I guess that’s true. Myself, I love big prints in spacious exhibitions, and I am unfailingly impressed by this kind of thing (website says Leica 35mm, Tri-X).
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I guess that’s true. Myself, I love big prints in spacious exhibitions, and I am unfailingly impressed by this kind of thing (website says Leica 35mm, Tri-X).
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It is impressive, but does being able to print it at 40x60 inches make it a better photograph?
I will do so, thanks. I should have limited my comment to pointing out the dichotomy between the data-driven quality/reliability ratings (near the bottom) vs. the customer satisfaction ratings (near the top).
I don't think anybody said anything about "better." However, IMO in many cases an image works especially well when it's printed very large....even mural size.
How on earth is that much detail available on 35mm Tri-X!? Amazing. It looks like medium format or larger from here, but perhaps in person the effect is different. I love those big prints too, especially analog.
Sometimes!
No, no, of course not. But it is a great portrait (would you not agree?) and if one can appreciate it big in the right setting, that’s amazing. I hate going to an exhibition and finding 10x8 prints that require me to get to book-reading distance to view them. Tones really open out in a big print.
I know this is going off topic, but the thing about Tesla is they were the ones that actually brought change. All the other mfgs could have done this years ago. Heck, milk was delivered in electric 'vans' in England over 60 years ago! But none of the car mfgs cared to bring us EVs the way Tesla did because, frankly, they couldn't care less and liked the fact that they tied you to their franchised dealerships for parts, oil changes etc etc.
And it's not only the car side. Tesla built up, by themselves, the now massive SuperCharger network. They built the infrastructure to make this possible! What was Mercedes/BMW/VW/Ford/GM/Fiat etc doing? Nothing.
$17 in most places including:
And this is why I feel we are getting gouged by Kodak:
Popho Luminar 100 Color Negative Film, 35mm, 36exp. [Expiring 09/2025]
Popho Luminar 100 has been discontinued. The current stock is the last batch. Expiring 09/2025 Popho Luminar 100 is a new ISO 100 speed daylight-balanced color negative film stock is a respooled Kodak Aerocolor IV 2460 color negative aerial photography film*. The film offers medium saturation...
popho.ca
$11.38 for FRESH, respooled Kodak Aerocolor IV. These companies buy this film from Kodak - so basically are middlemen - and can sell it at a profit for 40% less than what Kodak via its resellers (who are just putting it on the shelf) are selling ColorPlus.
The problem is the battery fades and then has to be replaced at roughly ten years. So what does that do to the resale value of the car? Of course, by then, batteries might be cheap.
$17 in most places including:
And this is why I feel we are getting gouged by Kodak:
Popho Luminar 100 Color Negative Film, 35mm, 36exp. [Expiring 09/2025]
Popho Luminar 100 has been discontinued. The current stock is the last batch. Expiring 09/2025 Popho Luminar 100 is a new ISO 100 speed daylight-balanced color negative film stock is a respooled Kodak Aerocolor IV 2460 color negative aerial photography film*. The film offers medium saturation...
$11.38 for FRESH, respooled Kodak Aerocolor IV. These companies buy this film from Kodak - so basically are middlemen - and can sell it at a profit for 40% less than what Kodak via its resellers (who are just putting it on the shelf) are selling ColorPlus.
Oh boy, I used to buy ColorPlus 200 for 2,5€ back in 2018...
I shot this slide show with video clips with a Samsung S7 in 1080, hand held. I forgot my camera when we visited the fire academy so the cellphone was all I had. Definitely a tripod would have helped but IU didn;t have that either. It looks gret on a 75" TV so the cellphone doesn;t limit it. If you can, check it on your TV to see what I mean or a large monitor looks even better and sharper.
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If they ever do enable self driving heaven help us. Going by the standard of the prototypes and the abysmal failures I hope that never happens. Why has everything to be automatic. if it gets to that degree we may all as well wrap ourselves in greaseproof paper and mark it as Full Fat Human Lard!
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35mm Triassic-X blown up to 40X60 inches? - is all that buckshot look due to the film grain itself, or the fact I'd rather take a real shotgun to that kind of thing rather than keep staring at it. Don't get offended. I have the same attitude toward expensive big screen TV's. Ain't much on TV worth seeing big, or seeing at all.
Tax incentives paid for by American taxpayers helped finance much of Tesla's rise. Now if we could only get Congress to pass a tax rebate for film purchases. We could use the argument that it will help the environment by getting rid of all those filthy and useless 1 and 0 bits filling up the universe.
don't forget the other 5 cans of sound negative, in their cans.
$17 in most places including:
And this is why I feel we are getting gouged by Kodak:
Popho Luminar 100 Color Negative Film, 35mm, 36exp. [Expiring 09/2025]
Popho Luminar 100 has been discontinued. The current stock is the last batch. Expiring 09/2025 Popho Luminar 100 is a new ISO 100 speed daylight-balanced color negative film stock is a respooled Kodak Aerocolor IV 2460 color negative aerial photography film*. The film offers medium saturation...
$11.38 for FRESH, respooled Kodak Aerocolor IV. These companies buy this film from Kodak - so basically are middlemen - and can sell it at a profit for 40% less than what Kodak via its resellers (who are just putting it on the shelf) are selling ColorPlus.
Eastman Kodak in America manufacturers Kodak film and sells it to Kodak Alaris in Great Britain who resells the film to stores like B&H. So there are two markups. Kodak Aerocolor is not consumer film and I don;t believe is resold by Alaris. You;re comparing a film wih a particular use to normal consumer film used to shoot people, etc. Here's the description:
APPLICATIONS KODAK AEROCOLOR IV Negative Film 2460 is for general use in medium- to high-altitude aerial-mapping and aerial-reconnaissance photography. It is suited for geological, pollution, archeological, crop and forestry studies; traffic control; city planning; railway, highway, and hydraulic engineering; oceanography; and remote sensing, as well as other areas where photogrammetry is used. It is also well suited and recommended for use in digital film. https://www.kodak.com/content/produ...EROCOLOR-III-Negative-Film-2460-datasheet.pdf
In any case, it;s aerial film. Here's the secription of it in the reselling varieties.
Kodak Aerocolor IV Film Review
A fine-grained medium contrast colour-negative film with a clear base, available in 35mm only.
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Avoid politics folks.
Particularly with respect to the entirely off topic subject of automobiles, where the interweaving of political and economic issues is so labyrinthian as to make some of the threads and posts here on advanced chemistry or sensitometry look like grade one lessons!
Particularly with respect to the entirely off topic subject of automobiles, where the interweaving of political and economic issues is so labyrinthian as to make some of the threads and posts here on advanced chemistry or sensitometry look like grade one lessons!
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Eastman Kodak in America manufacturers Kodak film and sells it to Kodak Alaris in Great Britain who resells the film to stores like B&H. So there are two markups. Kodak Aerocolor is not consumer film and I don;t believe is resold by Alaris. You;re comparing a film wih a particular use to normal consumer film used to shoot people, etc. Here's the description:
APPLICATIONS KODAK AEROCOLOR IV Negative Film 2460 is for general use in medium- to high-altitude aerial-mapping and aerial-reconnaissance photography. It is suited for geological, pollution, archeological, crop and forestry studies; traffic control; city planning; railway, highway, and hydraulic engineering; oceanography; and remote sensing, as well as other areas where photogrammetry is used. It is also well suited and recommended for use in digital film. https://www.kodak.com/content/produ...EROCOLOR-III-Negative-Film-2460-datasheet.pdf
In any case, it;s aerial film. Here's the secription of it in the reselling varieties.
Kodak Aerocolor IV Film Review
A fine-grained medium contrast colour-negative film with a clear base, available in 35mm only.www.analog.cafe
Kodak Alaris' business office operations with respect to film in North America are operated from Rochester New York.
Kodak Alaris does not sell to retailers.
… help the environment by getting rid of all those filthy and useless 1 and 0 bits filling up the universe.
That job is half done already… the zeros are, by definition, nothing at all. Let’s focus on getting rid of the useless ones
That job is half done already… the zeros are, by definition, nothing at all. Let’s focus on getting rid of the useless ones
Yes. You have to empty the bit bucket on a regular basis.
I understand what you are saying and agree in certain areas but, based on the drivers where I live, automation can’t be worse than them.
BTW, about 4 years ago, I got a VIP tour of downtown Pittsburgh, PA in a self-driving car. There were two humans up front, one as a back-up driver and one with a laptop collecting data from the LIDAR and such. It was amazing watching how the car negotiated the street system there that is narrow, hilly, and has lots of obstacles. See how it handled a left-hand turn in an uncontrolled intersection with oncoming traffic was enlightening. (Full disclosure, both of my kids have worked for that company and one still does.)
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