DAYO HAVE YOU SHOT THAT KODACHROME YET

so I shipped it off yesterday by speedpost but there was a sign that said "due to heightened aviation security, parcels to the united states will experience delays of unknown duration"

so now I'm all http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss180/marjanv1/smiley-girl-biting-fingernails.gif

i would call dwayne's. they're hella cool and prob dealing w/ lotsa ppl in yr same situation.

do u guys get everything developed by mr dwayne? or just kodachrome (RIP)

since I have limited options locally, if i'm getting lots of black & white, slide, or 120 done all at once it's way cheaper to ship it to Dwayne's. I still just use costco for my C-41 though.

DAYO HAVE YOU SHOT THAT KODACHROME YET

yo grady ship that stuff to me next time, it costs $3.50 a roll to develop slides here ; )

:( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html?_r=1&hp

yah thats why i started this thread

i called them 2 days ago to check on my (non-Kodachrome) order and they were like "bro we're too busy to check on your order" lol

thats a great article tho ;_;

tracking info sez it was delivered on the 24th ^_^

The first was a railroad worker who had driven from Arkansas to pick up 1,580 rolls of film that he had just paid $15,798 to develop. ... The artist, Aliceson Carter, 42, was incredulous as she watched the railroad worker, Jim DeNike, 53, loading a dozen boxes that contained nearly 50,000 slides into his old maroon Pontiac. He explained that every picture inside was of railroad trains and that he had borrowed money from his father’s retirement account to pay for developing them.

I want to kiw with jim denike

Anybody get anything back from Dwayne's yet? I got some the other day. From what I can tell the slides look great, but yowza those are some of the worst scans I've seen in my life!
In other news, my local developer gave me a bottle of wine when I picked up a bunch of rolls yesterday. I was ELATED!

dwaynes scanning sucks, or at least it does for kodachrome. otoh kodachrome is a notoriously hard film to scan

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.

gr80 you still sound like mike watt in my head
looooooooool

I have heard the same about the difficulty of scanning kodachrome. I'll have to see how my place here does with it.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102

lol grumpy de niro

i hope Colbert interviews him

#26 is like the definition of a stalker shot

you can even seen an out of focus bush at the bottom

DAYO DID YOU GET THAT KODACHROME BACK YET

yah it's at home in the states I will take a crack at it in the summer

i noticed you had me send my zines to the states too- is HK's postal system untrustworthy?

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 ;_;

it costs like 10 cents to send mail here, and worldwide shipping is so cheap, I guess cuz its all so efficient

dayo when u are taking photos in hong kong do u feel like christopher doyle

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

i dont get why ppl shoot with b+w when colour photographs exist

what is the reason for that

its cheaper for one thing

it abstracts the thing represented and makes it seem less verisimilar

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

but i mean, its like

colours

its become part of the fabric of photographic tradition

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).

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

its just colours are so pretty i wouldnt give that up

black and white is very pretty too

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"

i have photos to pick up tomorrow finally

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

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

i want to go to taiwan

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

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!

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

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).

you don't need a darkroom to develop

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.

DAYO HAVE YOU SEEN THAT KODACHROME YET

yeah I cut and sleeved it but I didn't get a chance to scan it yet

would like to get a dedicated 35mm scanner for kodachrome since it's hard to scan. but dunno when that will be!

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

I had dwayne's scan one roll as a 'test' and my home scanner (epson v500) did a better job!

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.

I finally scanned all my kodachrome -_-

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/0d78c258.jpg

how'd you scan it? my slide scanning attempts are generally pitiful.

new years resolution: EDIT THAT KODACHROME DAYO

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

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

link?

its in this forum

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

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, January 18, 2013 1:09 PM (26 minutes ago)

OTM - great thread

dayo have you seen my girl's tumblr

il0ve3h0td0gs.n3t

(goog proofed)

pretty dope! followed

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

http://i.imgur.com/5f3UQb3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gGEbX6f.jpg

new years resolution: EDIT THAT KODACHROME DAYO

― 乒乓, Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:57 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

Love that screencap thread, thanks for the link.

apologies for putting this here but . . .

http://i.imgur.com/XWBNpwc.jpg

are those earpods or something else?

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

Could be just the stock iPhone earbuds

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.

DAYO HAVE YOU GOT THAT EARBUDSiPHONE YET

thanking you.

http://i.imgur.com/ee4kzRL.jpg