Yep - 828 slides.
From Kodachrome shot 57 years ago - and yes that is me in the brown.
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No - that must have gone a long time ago, because I don't have any clear memories of it.Do you still have your father's sweater?
Isn't that what we call the 645 format? I always considered it just a bit better than 35mm, but not enough to really keep my attention. I either shot 35mm or 120. The hoarding of silver started in the 70's by the Hunt brothers.
The Hunt Bros. were attempting to corner the silver market at the time. They did not worry about the U.S. Government dumping silver on to the market. The government did not have enough silver to make a difference. There was an organization in the world who had more silver than any government and they had a surplus of it. That was Eastman Kodak Co. When the Hunts drove the price of silver high enough, Kodak entered the market with their surplus which wiped the Hunt Bros. out. It was said that their sister, who stayed out of the silver market had to bail them out. That is the way we heard the story down here in the oil patch. I don't believe the idea was to hoard but instead own most of the silver in the world so that if anyone needed silver, they had to go the the Hunt Bros to buy it and pay their price. Fortunately it did not work. Their father was too smart to try that but I think he had died by that time. I drank my morning coffee where Mr. H.L. Hunt ate his breakfast in the same coffee shop when he would visit Shreveport. He had oil interests in the area.......Regards!Isn't that what we call the 645 format? I always considered it just a bit better than 35mm, but not enough to really keep my attention. I either shot 35mm or 120. The hoarding of silver started in the 70's by the Hunt brothers.
Kodak made a beautiful camera BEFORE WW2 called the Bantam Special which took 828 film. If had a "fast" lens before fast lenses were "cool". Some of you may have one of these......Regards!Do you still have your father's sweater?
The photo I posted was taken with a Kodak Bantam RF - like this:Kodak made a beautiful camera BEFORE WW2 called the Bantam Special which took 828 film. If had a "fast" lens before fast lenses were "cool". Some of you may have one of these......Regards!
The Instamatic 126 film was the same width as 35mm, but the image was a square, so about 24x24 mm; one sprocket per frame. Not a bad format, but Kodak didn't include a pressure plate in the cartridge, so it didn't achieve all the might have been possible in the format.
The Hunt Bros. were attempting to corner the silver market at the time. They did not worry about the U.S. Government dumping silver on to the market. The government did not have enough silver to make a difference. There was an organization in the world who had more silver than any government and they had a surplus of it. That was Eastman Kodak Co. When the Hunts drove the price of silver high enough, Kodak entered the market with their surplus which wiped the Hunt Bros. out. It was said that their sister, who stayed out of the silver market had to bail them out. That is the way we heard the story down here in the oil patch. I don't believe the idea was to hoard but instead own most of the silver in the world so that if anyone needed silver, they had to go the the Hunt Bros to buy it and pay their price. Fortunately it did not work. Their father was too smart to try that but I think he had died by that time. I drank my morning coffee where Mr. H.L. Hunt ate his breakfast in the same coffee shop when he would visit Shreveport. He had oil interests in the area.......Regards!
Yep - 828 slides.
From Kodachrome shot 57 years ago - and yes that is me in the brown.
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Yep - or adjacent to it.Jericho Beach?
The Hunt Bros. were attempting to corner the silver market.......Regards!
You would need lenses to cover the new format ... need a larger viewfinder, larger mirror in an SLR, etc. Might as well go straight to medium format.
There was possibly a point post WW2 when it might have been possible but really the quality of film improved and 120 covered the market for larger frames.
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