P3D Re: Good?

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Maxey wrote:
> >>Once again I will state that any equipment has the ability to
> >>produce a great image. However in your own words the 8x10 made
> >>"great" prints while the 35mm made "very good" or just "good"
> >>pictures. If the same image was taken with "superior" and
> >>"inferior" equipment and no special "effect" was desired then the
> >>"superior" equipment will produce a better image. Do you really
> >>believe that there is a 35mm image that is superior to an
> >>identical Ansel Adams 8x10?
> 
> Ernst Haas (SP?) provided the 35mm slide Kodak used to create a
> Colorama - an 18 foot high and 60 foot wide - color display
> transparency. It was the very first such image, shot on Kodachrome,
> using probably a Leicaflex or M Series. a real testiment to 35MM and
> Kodachrome film. I actually own the dealer version and it is a
> remarkable image. Great images magnified to gigantic proportions are
> possible with the right effort.
> 

Excuse me, I'm a bit slow today (lack of sleep) and am not quite sure
of what you are saying.  By "very first such image" do you mean very
first 35mm Kodachrome image used for Colorama, or very first
Kodachrome image used for Colorama?  If you mean the later, I think
you may be mistaken.  All of the early Colorama images were made with
a 8x20 or 8x10 large format camera.  As the people at Kodak got used
to the process of creating the Coloramas, and the films improved,
later images (like the one you mention by Ernst Haas) were made with
smaller cameras.  One of my father's friends was a Kodak staff
photographer, and he made one of the Colorama images with a Kodak
Brownie.

Norman Kerr wrote a very interesting article on the history of
Colorama in the May/June 1999 issue of Photo Techniques magazine.
This article mentions a much larger history (which include Pro Photo
CD scans of more than 300 of the 565 production negatives) that he
wrote for the George Eastman House archives, but doesn't mention how
to get a copy.

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