will47 wrote:
Both of those slide viewers bring back a million memories. I mainly limited myself to Kodachrome 25 and 64. Loved all the slide films thought but never had much use for Fujichrome. In fact never liked any of the Fuji's.
My dad used both Ektachrome and Kodachrome, in the 60's.
For years as a kid, I shot with Kodachrome, before switching over to Kodacolor, because it was easier to show my friends. As a family, we collected our slides into 80 slide reels, which were trecked to family gatherings. When I moved out of my the family home over 16 years ago, I ended up with all of those slides! The aha moment going through all of those slides several years later was that while most of them chronicled family moments, a majority of them weren't worth keeping, but I did keep them just for the memories they hold.
But, I later discovered the Fuji brand of films, and I never looked back at shooting with Kodak again! That was my first aha moment!
Personally, I believed that I got richer colors out of the Fuji films, primarily their print film because I wasn't shooting slides any longer by this point!
I also took a film photography course and worked in a darkroom while I was an extension student at Harvard University. One of my black & white shots taken of Sheryl Franks and Michael Botticelli at the An Evening of Champions was used as the background for the poster for the Hayden Recreation Centre Figure Skating Club's annual spring ice show Ice Time. It was an honor for them to use my picture for their poster for three years. How many kids by the age of 25, have had their photographs published and used comnercially? Remember, this was back in the very early 80's!
For nearly three years, since I purchased my my first real DSLR camera, my aha's are getting better and more frequent. I get a thrill when my raw shots require little to no processing to be ready for printing or digital sumbission. But, I still have a lot more work to do to get those results consistently!
Like the saying goes; "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice!"
And I need to get out there more often to get more consistent!