FROM: "Q.G. de Bakker" SUBJECT: Re: Why doesn't Kodak make Kodachrome in 120 rolls? DATE: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:51:01 +0100 ORGANIZATION: Tiscali bv NEWSGROUPS: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format Willem-Jan Markerink wrote: > Kodachrome....yet they did once make a K64 in 120....not sure about K25 > (nor other, larger formats). Oh, apropos other formats: Kodak once produced Kodachrome in 8x10" sheets. Kodak's advertising department distributed these among well known photographers. "Dear Mr. Weston, I am wondering if you would like to make an 8x10 Kodachrome print for us of Point Lobos." Westons answered that he "didn't know colour", but he liked the Point Lobos landscape so much he would "hate to see it murdered in colour by an outsider." ;-) FROM: bhilton665@aol.comxspam (Bill Hilton) SUBJECT: Re: Why doesn't Kodak make Kodachrome in 120 rolls? DATE: 23 Feb 2002 22:53:59 GMT ORGANIZATION: AOL http://www.aol.com NEWSGROUPS: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format >From: w.j.markerink@a1.nl (Willem-Jan Markerink) >I am also quite sure one of them came in 4x5", or even 8x10"....probably >K64, as so much resolution as K25 offers is overkill in these formats) Kodachrome was available in the late 1940's in 8x10" sheet film (and maybe 4x5" as well), but this was well before K64 and K25 were introduced in the mid-1970's. I think it was an ASA 8 or 12 film back then, with just one flavor. There's a funny story about Eastman Kodak inquiring of Edward Weston "if you would like to make an 8x10 Kodachrome transparency for us of Point Lobos" for Kodak's advertising. Weston turned them down, saying he had no knowledge of (or apparently little interest in) color photography technique. Kodak sent him 24 8x10 Kodachromes anyway so he shot them in one session and returned them to Kodak for processing. Kodak decided to use seven of them for advertising, paying $250 each. After receiving this much money (a nice sum in those days) Weston said "I decided I like color" after all (grin). Bill FROM: mddeskey@aol.com (MDDESKEY) SUBJECT: Re: Why doesn't Kodak make Kodachrome in 120 rolls? DATE: 24 Feb 2002 21:57:51 GMT ORGANIZATION: AOL http://www.aol.com NEWSGROUPS: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format In the 1940s Anton Bruehl and other professional photographers at 480 Lexington [Grand Cental Palace building] used 8x10 Kodachrome with an ASA 8 for commercial work like magazine covers. There was a cottage industry of mostly female retouchers who could remove a pimple on a model's face using near-microscopes. The film was transported overnight to and from Kodak in Rochester.