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Jun 14, 2018 23:08:38   #
charlienow Loc: Hershey, PA
 
Remember the days when typically you had asa/iso of 100, 200 and 400. I know there were slower and faster film speeds but these were the typical and most popular film choices.

And you had to burn the whole roll of film before replacing with a different speed roll.

Now what do we have. My camera goes from like 100 to 26000 iso or so.

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Jun 14, 2018 23:16:05   #
PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago
 
charlienow wrote:
Remember the days when typically you had asa/iso of 100, 200 and 400. I know there were slower and faster film speeds but these were the typical and most popular film choices.

And you had to burn the whole roll of film before replacing with a different speed roll.

Now what do we have. My camera goes from like 100 to 26000 iso or so.
I was more frugal. I would rewind the film and make sure the leader did not go back and and make the exposures on the canister and put it back in the camera with the lens shade on and click off the number on the canister plus 2.If the leader went in I had a leader retrial tool.

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Jun 14, 2018 23:24:39   #
Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN
 
Remember it? Ha! I still use it but more sheets rather than rolls at this point.

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Jun 14, 2018 23:30:10   #
Stardust Loc: Central Illinois
 
charlienow wrote:
Remember the days when typically you had asa/iso of 100, 200 and 400. I know there were slower and faster film speeds but these were the typical and most popular film choices. And you had to burn the whole roll of film before replacing with a different speed roll.
Charlie, you must be relative young because the typical ASA of 100-200-400 was on Kodacolor Gold that did not come out until 1986. Back in the 50-60s I would guess regular Kodacolor was most popular at ASA 25, until 1963 when Kodak raised it to 64, which I believe was also the same as Kodachrome if you were shooting slides. Main two reasons I went to a Rollie 2-1/4" square negative camera was did not have to change flash mounting to shoot portrait or horizontal, AND the film came in 12 and 24 exposure rolls, versus 35-mm at 24 (20?) and 36 shots.

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Jun 14, 2018 23:41:18   #
TBerwick Loc: Houston, Texas
 
Ahh, Kodachrome 64. Thought I was in hog heaven to get a "fast" slide film. Much preferred it over Ektachrome, even when the ASAs were raised.

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Jun 15, 2018 00:08:29   #
AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire
 
TBerwick wrote:
Ahh, Kodachrome 64. Thought I was in hog heaven to get a "fast" slide film. Much preferred it over Ektachrome, even when the ASAs were raised.


I stuck with the 25 as long as they made it!


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Jun 15, 2018 00:28:48   #
charlienow Loc: Hershey, PA
 
Stardust wrote:
Charlie, you must be relative young because the typical ASA of 100-200-400 was on Kodacolor Gold that did not come out until 1986. Back in the 50-60s I would guess regular Kodacolor was most popular at ASA 25, until 1963 when Kodak raised it to 64, which I believe was also the same as Kodachrome if you were shooting slides. Main two reasons I went to a Rollie 2-1/4" square negative camera was did not have to change flash mounting to shoot portrait or horizontal, AND the film came in 12 and 24 exposure rolls, versus 35-mm at 24 (20?) and 36 shots.
Charlie, you must be relative young because the ty... (show quote)


Stardust. You must be an old fart. Lol. I am a young 70 soon to be 71

Pan-x. Plus-x and Tri-x. Back in the 70s or so.

First camera was a brownie with roll film. Did some file of 8mm and super 8

So been around a long time.

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Jun 15, 2018 00:41:45   #
tinplater Loc: Scottsdale, AZ
 
Remember shooting Kodachrome ASA 8 circa 1950 I believe. It was expensive, you had to mail it in to have it processed (including in film purchase price) and then wait a week or so for your mounted slides to come home. As per the song:
"They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day"

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Jun 15, 2018 00:58:06   #
rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin
 
My big film era quandary was choosing between Ilford Delta 100 and Delta 400 (occasionally pushed to 800).
Loved ‘em both.

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Jun 15, 2018 06:16:09   #
cameraf4 Loc: Delaware
 
charlienow wrote:
Remember the days when typically you had asa/iso of 100, 200 and 400. I know there were slower and faster film speeds but these were the typical and most popular film choices.

And you had to burn the whole roll of film before replacing with a different speed roll.

Now what do we have. My camera goes from like 100 to 26000 iso or so.


Charlie, I was a "slide guy." The different speeds of the films didn't "hit me" as much as the different "looks" between Kodachrome 25, Fujichrome Velvia 50, Agfachrome CT 100, Sakurachrome 100, Fujichrome Provia 100, and 3M 1000. Now that was a "smorgasbord" that I really miss.

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Jun 15, 2018 06:16:29   #
Largobob
 
tinplater wrote:
Remember shooting Kodachrome ASA 8 circa 1950 I believe. It was expensive, you had to mail it in to have it processed (including in film purchase price) and then wait a week or so for your mounted slides to come home. As per the song:
"They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day"


"Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away!"

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Jun 15, 2018 06:31:42   #
sb Loc: Florida's East Coast
 
AndyH wrote:
I stuck with the 25 as long as they made it!



I sometimes pull out old transparencies and am amazed at the richness of color and the dynamic range - things we often have to manipulate our images to duplicate with digital.

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Jun 15, 2018 06:48:29   #
AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire
 
sb wrote:
I sometimes pull out old transparencies and am amazed at the richness of color and the dynamic range - things we often have to manipulate our images to duplicate with digital.


Yes. But we get there, thanks to presets!



Andy

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Jun 15, 2018 07:07:57   #
Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.
 
charlienow wrote:
Remember the days when typically you had asa/iso of 100, 200 and 400. I know there were slower and faster film speeds but these were the typical and most popular film choices.

And you had to burn the whole roll of film before replacing with a different speed roll.

Now what do we have. My camera goes from like 100 to 26000 iso or so.

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"And you had to burn the whole roll of film before replacing with a different speed roll."

Not if you had a Hasselblad, and mutiple backs, or even a single-shot back for a Rolleiflex. Very usefull back in the days.

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Jun 15, 2018 08:07:32   #
jeweler53
 
I carried a collection of bodies. Usually had Tri X in one, Panatomic in another and Kodacolor in a third. Sometimes even a slide fil in another, but usually if I needed a slide it was for a client who wanted ( and would pay for ) a 2 1/4 sized image. I still am not used to all the bells and whistles of my Df. The ability to she at and ISO in the thousands still astounds me.

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