Pleased with the non-kodachrome scans I've gotten from them. I even sold one for a magazine ad.
The first time I got kodachrome scans from them they were beautiful but the last roll I got was crappy.
― gr8080, Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
gr80 you still sound like mike watt in my headlooooooooool
― hot lava hair (Z S), Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I have heard the same about the difficulty of scanning kodachrome. I'll have to see how my place here does with it.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 2 January 2011 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102
― dayo, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lol grumpy de niro
― just sayin, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope Colbert interviews him
― gr8080, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
#26 is like the definition of a stalker shot
you can even seen an out of focus bush at the bottom
― dayo, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
DAYO DID YOU GET THAT KODACHROME BACK YET
― gr8080, Friday, 25 February 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yah it's at home in the states I will take a crack at it in the summer
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i noticed you had me send my zines to the states too- is HK's postal system untrustworthy?
― gr8080, Saturday, 26 February 2011 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
nah it's prob the best I have ever used, but I dunno about my long term plans here so I wanna lighten my load as much as possible
currently looking at taking home 300+ sheets of negatives, it's gonna weigh a ton ;_;
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
it costs like 10 cents to send mail here, and worldwide shipping is so cheap, I guess cuz its all so efficient
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
dayo when u are taking photos in hong kong do u feel like christopher doyle
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
haha I shoot mainly B&W so not really. but I should rewatch his stuff more to get ~inspired~
I just shot 9 rolls of color in the last month, scanning now, see how doyle-y it is
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont get why ppl shoot with b+w when colour photographs exist
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
what is the reason for that
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
its cheaper for one thing
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
it abstracts the thing represented and makes it seem less verisimilar
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
but its like isnt it a pain in the ass. Idk i think its obvious i know like maybe three things about taking photographs if you count "what is a photograph?" and "where is your camera?" so im sorry if all i do is ask u q.s itts
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
but i mean, its like
colours
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
its become part of the fabric of photographic tradition
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
well I dunno I feel like one thing photographers fight against is the tendency for their pictures to only be thought of as documentary, existential fact instead of something deeper or more significant. colors kind of draw you into that hole because they approximate reality more than B&W. (although digital has shown that most color film, slide and negative, is kind of actually lol w/r/t verisimilitude).
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
it is kind of funny tho HK is like one of the most colorful cities on the planet and Im discarding so much info everytime I shoot
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
its just colours are so pretty i wouldnt give that up
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
black and white is very pretty too
― gr8080, Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yah the best feeling in the world is getting slides back and holding them against a light and being all like "I am holding a piece of the world in my hands"
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i have photos to pick up tomorrow finally
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
btw if you want to see some HK color pics you should go to fellow ilxor's tumblr http://kentpics.tumblr.com it's v v good
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
btw if you want to see some HK color pics you should go to fellow ilxor rent's tumblr http://kentpics.tumblr.com it's v v good
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i want to go to taiwan
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
some of the color pics I just got back, as you can see HK is a very colorful city
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/5478091486_a1f0193ccf_z.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5132/5477492745_5db2ea6365_z.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5477493205_bbb8b20d4a.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5098/5477502189_19e9492786_z.jpg
Im not too happy with the color films Ive tried so far tho
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I do probably 1 roll of B&W for every 6 in color. I like Friedlander a lot and get inspired, but then what if I'm walking around and see this:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5169/5374162966_842c11399b.jpg
and have B&W loaded in my camera? Disaster!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Saturday, 26 February 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I develop B&W myself so it saves money - after the initial investment in equipment it comes out to like, 5-10 cents worth of chemicals per roll
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah there's that. I've never set foot in a darkroom myself. My main concern is getting good scans from my lab (the resolution is great, but sometimes the contrast is too high; we're working on that).
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Saturday, 26 February 2011 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
you don't need a darkroom to develop
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Saturday, 26 February 2011 07:56 (thirteen years ago) link
re: B&W vs shooting color - one reason is that color negs will (most likely) start to fade in a couple of decades, B&W negatives are about as archival as archival gets. Less relevant in the days of digital, when our grandkids are going to find an old external drive in our shit and not have any knowledge of what it is, no way to hook it up to their holographic computers and most likely no way to read the files anyway. But maybe that's a good reason to keep a camera loaded with Tri-X as well.
Every B&W films has a specific look to it (the grain structure, the way they respond to different wavelengths of light, etc.) that isn't really obtainable by converting color (neg, slide or digital) in post.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Saturday, 26 February 2011 09:33 (thirteen years ago) link
DAYO HAVE YOU SEEN THAT KODACHROME YET
― (gr8080), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I cut and sleeved it but I didn't get a chance to scan it yet
― dayo, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
would like to get a dedicated 35mm scanner for kodachrome since it's hard to scan. but dunno when that will be!
― dayo, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
the exposures look okay just from eyeballing it - I was p worried and bracketed, but I think I'll get some usable shots
did you even consider paying dwayne's to scan them? even if they're shitty scans, you'd have something, and can get the good ones scanned later
― (gr8080), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
I had dwayne's scan one roll as a 'test' and my home scanner (epson v500) did a better job!
― dayo, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
they were also really curly from being in a tube for 6 months so they're flattening under a box atm
My last roll of Kodachrome was a total dud. Too much pressure!I'll be curious to know what kind of success you have with scanning your rolls. My lab scans from Dwayne's were baaaad, and my home scans are were little difficult, as it turns out. But as I said, it wasn't a great roll so I'm not too concerned! Using a Plustek, btw. Which I love, but I think it's maybe just a little harder to scan Kodachrome.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 2 September 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
I finally scanned all my kodachrome -_-
http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/0d78c258.jpg
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
how'd you scan it? my slide scanning attempts are generally pitiful.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
new years resolution: EDIT THAT KODACHROME DAYO
― 乒乓, Thursday, 10 January 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
just want to say i'm following your screencaps thread but i'm reluctant to say anything because it'll break up the flow.
thread should be read only imo
― Z S, Friday, 18 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
haha thanks! btw some stylesheets automatically resize images but the originals should all be either 720 or 1080p, view in separate tab etc, set as background, do whatever
― 乒乓, Friday, 18 January 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
link?
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 18 January 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
its in this forum
― 乒乓, Friday, 18 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
my thread of screencaps
i watched kore-eda's nobody knows a couple of weeks ago & wrote down the screentimes of all of these close ups he shot of usually mouths and hands, the kids in the films, it's so beautifully photographed, i wish i could muscle in on the thread, but unfortunately nobody knows is gone, now, & i didn't get around to it. i like seeing those stray images from movies though, like playing along at home
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/screencaps/vanishingpoint7.jpg
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Friday, 18 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
― Z S, Friday, January 18, 2013 1:09 PM (26 minutes ago)
OTM - great thread
― ω (carne asada), Friday, 18 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
dayo have you seen my girl's tumblr
il0ve3h0td0gs.n3t
(goog proofed)
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 18 January 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
pretty dope! followed
― 乒乓, Friday, 18 January 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
maybe I should make a tumblr with these though I bet there are a million of em already
the visigoths swarmed through the wreckage of ilm, nothing was left but the neil young vs god, neil young vs rap music and guns vs music polls, all because nobody listened to dayo's prophetic words about nostormo
― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5f3UQb3.jpg
― 乒乓, Saturday, 21 September 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gGEbX6f.jpg
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
― 乒乓, Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:57 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Wishing I still had the motivation to continue my thread of screencaps ; (
Might never do anything with those Kodachromes I shot. Not until I get a better scanner at least
― 龜, Saturday, 15 March 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
Love that screencap thread, thanks for the link.
― drash, Saturday, 15 March 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
apologies for putting this here but . . .
http://i.imgur.com/XWBNpwc.jpg
are those earpods or something else?
― markers, Sunday, 1 June 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
i'm not kidding, either. she's using an iphone, so it would make sense, but i'm not sure about the placement of the remote, and i guess they could be those more expensive things
― markers, Sunday, 1 June 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Could be just the stock iPhone earbuds
― 龜, Sunday, 1 June 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
I don't think the remote placement varies between the models
Looks like the stock ones that came with my iPhone 5, if that helps.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 1 June 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
DAYO HAVE YOU GOT THAT EARBUDSiPHONE YET
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Sunday, 1 June 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
thanking you.
― markers, Sunday, 1 June 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ee4kzRL.jpg
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Saturday, 14 June 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link