End of the world is pending.

[Fedzilla_Bob]

I realy miss my old Rollei projector. I tried to give it to one of my step sons (who thinks film is the bees knees) and he didn't really want it.

It was left behind in my move west. Darn it.

 

[tedwhite]

In the local coffee shop last year (rapidly being overrun by tourists) I ended up chatting with a couple of them. What do you teach at the college? asked the man. Introduction to Black & White Film Photography, I answered. He stared blankly at me for a moment. Then he said, Why?

His companion, a young woman, said, Bruce, don't be dense. I mean, it's sooo retro, sooo arcane.

Finally, my identity crisis is resolved. I am retro. I am arcane.

Ted

 

[Kev T]

Most enjoyable thread, with many points made that stuck home in my mind...

For example, a slide projector will project faithfully all the multi-million silver halide grains that makes up a single 35mm frame to the diffraction limt of the projction lens, while the latest, greatest digital projector can only manage a paltry 2.1Mp output, irregardless of whatever prodigious image file size fed to it.

Friends who cannot understand why I prefer to use my over fifty vintage handplanes instead of that 2Hp powered planer slowly corroding in a corner in my shop, and perform Japanese tea ceremonies before using using my handforged Damascus steel Japanese chisels... 😀

 

[f/stopblues]

Hi, my name is Chris.

<group> "Hi Chris"

I'm 25, and have been a struggling photographer for exactly one fifth of my life.

I have never seen an actual slide show. (bows head in shame)

 

[bmattock]

Hi, my name is Chris.

<group> "Hi Chris"

I'm 25, and have been a struggling photographer for exactly one fifth of my life.

I have never seen an actual slide show. (bows head in shame)

You didn't miss that much. I'm 45, and I grew up being forced to endure two-hour episodes of watching grainy, out-of-focus vacation photos that our neighbors took of bombed-out castles through the bug-smeared, dirty, windscreen of their rental VW as they toured Germany on their summer vacations, year after year and came back with the horrible evidence.

We were trapped like rats in a wall-to-wall carpeted and wood-grain-paneled subterranean room known in the States as a 'basement rec room', which sported a table-tennis table, a card table for Pinochle and Euchre games, a 'wet bar', a vague smell of mold, and a blinking Hamm's beer sign over said bar. Ever see the movie "Austin Powers?" Yeah, it was like that - only more cheaply done and cheesier.

The only thing I found even vaguely interesting about the entire affair was the Iron Cross that their father had in a frame on the wall, since he had served in the Army, but on the 'wrong side'. He wouldn't talk about that...

Oh yes, I've seen slide shows...[shudder]...

Ever hear the term 'Death by Powerpoint?' Slide shows were worse. I only discovered years later that the only way my parents got through them was because they were greased to the gills on the neighbor's schnapps.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[tedwhite]

I've had the same experience. ONly in Southern Kalifornia we didn't have basements. However, our parents were definitely immersed. "And here's a shot of little Georgette building a sand castle on some beach in - where was it, Lucille? - Oh, yeah, some place called the Far Torgugas. Something like that."

 

[kshapero]

I've shot slides for upwards 35 years. Had acathedrial ceiling in the house my kids grew up in. I built a pedestal about 23 feet up for a slide pojector. We had no TV by choice. Kids grew up watching slide shows of dad's escapades. Humph!

 

[Flinor]

Among the many scary things I heard when I worked at ProPhoto was the customer (who earned her living with her camera) who asked me in all seriousness if she needed a different memory card to cross process the images from her new D30.

 

[w3rk5]

I call it techno illiteracy, my dad's main hobby was making replica antique furniture with tools from the same period. He used chisels to make mortices and tongue and groove joints, hand planes to smooth out the wood. Pretty basic stuff and a dying art too. People were amazed he did not use a power tool.
We are the true rebels in the binary universe we live in.

Bill

That's so kewl. 🙂

 

[bmattock]

I've shot slides for upwards 35 years. Had acathedrial ceiling in the house my kids grew up in. I built a pedestal about 23 feet up for a slide pojector. We had no TV by choice. Kids grew up watching slide shows of dad's escapades. Humph!

Scarred for life, no doubt.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[amateriat]

My mom bought some coffee table sorta thing for our TV room. It looks all beat up and what not. She gets pissed at me when I put my feet on it while I'm watching TV. I really can't understand how I'm "ruining" it. Using the logic of buying "distressed" furnitue, I'm only adding to its beauty...

Such a wiseacre, Kyle...your Mom clearly raised you right. 😉


- Barrett

 

[StuartR]

In my family, my sister, mom and I always used to beg my dad to show slideshows. He is a really good photographer and a great storyteller though, so they were always a lot of fun. It was also really cool to see what we looked like at 2, 3, 5 etc. So slides always equated fun for me.

 

[Kyle]

Such a wiseacre, Kyle...your Mom clearly raised you right. 😉


- Barrett

She's very proud of me. 😀

 

[RJBender]

Just tell her how expensive it is to fly to NZ to use an universities equipment to do that trick

University of Otago, Photographic Services

Volker,

Schiller's Camera in St. Louis (near Grant's Farm) can make Ektachrome color slides from TIFF or JPG files using a Management Graphics Film Recorder. The file dimensions have to be 4096 X 2732 pixels. The first slide is $6. Duplicates are 95¢ each.

R.J.

 

[DougK]

The only problem with slide shows is that so few people know how to present them. Most folks will load up every slide they shot and bore you to tears when they drone "this is at the X... this is at the Y...." How hard is it to select the best shots and tell a story around them?

 

[ch1]

Late to this thread party - sorry..... 🙁

But I am old slide shooter who has to admit that I am burning off the last of my 'chromes.

I still have a few rolls to go and a few mailers to use up but now that I scan film - I've m/l switched over to print negatives.

For me, in the past, slides were the best way to store images - I always wanted to avoid my parents syndrome of the coffee table drawer full of yellowing prints and unsorted negatives etc. and though that carousels were cool.

But, frankly, setting up the old Kodak projector is a royal PITA - last time I did so the lens fell apart and I had to reassemble it before we could see the pics!

But guess what?

Today I took out and shot one of my last five rolls of Kodachrome 64! No sooner had I loaded the camera then I came upon a brand new and very shiny cherry red Chevy retro pickup parked over at the local burger stand in sunny Tucson!

Talk about serendipity. Sometimes 'chrome just hits the spot! 😀

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

If slide shows were bad, how about home movies?

Super eight with no sound and no edits.

And because the movie lasted only three minutes we had to see it at least five times over.

 

[RJBender]

The only problem with slide shows is that so few people know how to present them. Most folks will load up every slide they shot and bore you to tears when they drone "this is at the X... this is at the Y...." How hard is it to select the best shots and tell a story around them?

Yeah, you need at least two projectors and a dissolve unit to do it right.

R.J.

 

[RJBender]

... and another thing.

... and another thing.

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An ENH-5 bulb for my Ektagraphic is $16 for 350 hours. 4.5¢ per hour

At least I won't go broke putting my audience to sleep.

R.J.

 

[Socke]

Funny isn't it. Digital is so new, so unfinished - yet so many think it is the only game out there.

I rememder using a sony casette walkman on a flight in the early 90's and the attendant didn't get that my analog tape player wasn't a threat to her captain's plane. She got all militant about it. I tried to hand it to her and that sacred her off. Later I watched the movie with my headphones and avoided the 5 dollar fee to watch a crappy flick.

I think most have truly forgotten that there is an entire world of non-electronic devices out there. Try asking for a bottle opener these days. You get the same expression that dogs give when we talk to them.

Don't know about the Sony Walkman, my first Philips Cassette Player in 1975 and last Grundig in 1989 and everything in between contained lots of electronics.