|
Hatteberg's People - Grant Steinle
One Kansas man owns the last Kodachrome Film processing machine left in the world. Reporter: Larry HattebergEmail Address: larry.hatteberg@cox.net Hatteberg's People - Grant Steinle |
|
Hatteberg's People - Grant Steinle
LONG LIVE KODACHROME! Shoot it while you still can!
When Kodachrome ruled the world, projection 'keystoning' (where one side of the picture was wider than the other) was common, but a picture's aspect ratio would never by casually compromised, as in this video, where a 'normal' (probably 3:4) aspect ratio picture is stretched abnormally wide, to 'look' like 16:9 widescreen. Widescreen is hip, and more important than realism or accuracy, so even though people's faces are unnaturally stretched fat like pigs, no one seems to care. We, as a society, are losing a certain attention to quality, something formerly epitomized by Kodachrome.
We love your program, it even greater when our son is on with you. Thanks. The subject was really good.
Paul Simon said it all in 1973: "Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away." Today I would substitute "Mama" with "Kodak"; the thought of Kodak discontinuing the greatest slide film (sorry Fuji!) concerns me. If worse comes to worse I will resort to Professional Ektachrome 64 which has given me fairly good results. But for now it's good ol' Kodachrome 64.