Kodak camera

Bryan Jones comes back on what Kodak represented to the sad realisation of what it has become.

The sad part of this is that Kodak is another example of the a company that fell from dramatic heights and has gone from a name that everybody knew to one that does not have nearly the brand recognition it once had that was all things photography.

To me, Kodak rings now with good film (a very niche product today) and crappy digital camera. That last part is no longer since Kodak announced they abandon the camera business in light of their bankruptcy reorganisation. They contributed a lot to photography, with innovations like the roll film, Kodachrome that made colour photography easier, the first digital camera in 1975, etc. The also contributed to make photography accessible to anybody, for the best or the worse. We, photographers, have a huge debt towards Kodak.

Incidentally I came back to photography a bit because I bought a Kodak digital camera in 1999 – which was at the time decent. Then I bought a Canon EOS film camera and ended up mostly shooting Fuji slide film… Today my TLR film camera sees a lot of Kodak film.

Lumix LX-3

A Lumix LX-3 Review as an every day camera, by Jorge Ledesma.

When I hold the LX3, I just feel like making pictures and my creativity just naturally flows. I don’t have to think about it too much because I know that for the images I want to create the LX3 will be there ready and up to the task when she’s called upon.

Camera is a creativity tool. I have always heard good things about the Lumix LX series, and this confirms it. Panasonic is playing a significant part in today’s camera market.

X-Pro1 reactivity

I know that one of the questions is how faster is the Fujifilm X-Pro1 as the X-100 seemed to be sluggish, frustrating a lot of early adopters of the X-series.

Here is a video that shows the X-Pro1:

From “nycphotog2006” the same person that posted these sample images.

OM-D or E-M5? Weather seal.

Just a clarification: OM-D is the product line, a bit like Pen Digital. E-M5 is the model, like E-P1.

Also, concerning the weather sealing for the body, look at this demo:

The flash you see on the camera is also part of the standard package as it does not have a built-in flash.

Kodachrome 2010

A small documentary “Kodachrome 2010” by Xander Robin, with an interview of Dwayne’s Photo lab manager and how it came to an end.

The video was taken down on YouTube due to a copyright claim.

Robert Cohen found his last roll of Kodachrome and went to the Missouri fair to shoot it ; then drove down to Dwayne’s to get it processed, anxiously waiting to see if the film had any picture on it.

My biggest regret is to not have shot Kodachrome more often. I think that the 3 weeks turnaround in France was part of what turned me off.