June 24th, 2009. Filed under:
Shout out.
Those of you who shot film back in the day (and I am increasingly meeting people who never have) will remember the iconic Kodachrome. In fact, it was the first roll of colour film I ever used. It was fiendishly difficult to expose correctly, and processing meant putting it in the little orange bag posting it away and waiting about a fortnight before it returned in the familiar yellow box(familiar, that is, to those of us who used it. I put it through my dad’s Braun Paxette, end, using the instructions on the inside of the packet, got 24 perfect exposures. It took 20 years and a Nikon F5 before I ever achieved that again. Anyway, Kodak have just announced that, after 74 years (yes, that long) they are discontinuing production. It’s probably reasonable; is only one place in the world now that processes it. you can get a Kodachrome look by using one of the many film emulation plug-ins such as Phototools Lite (free) but it’s not quite the same thing. It’s sad to see the passing of an era. Those in need of a nostalgia fix can read more here.- If you use Mozilla Firefox, and update regularly, you may have found it crashes a lot. Don’t worry; you’re not alone. It’s certainly driven me back into the arms of Internet Explorer (which I find clunky and counterintuitive). Two suggestions:make sure Java is upgraded to the latest version (you can do this in the control panel)and to try using the new Firefox 3.5 release candidate 2, which you can download here
- OnOne software are doing a push this month on their amazing PhotoSuite 4.5. Until the end of this month, you can buy it at a substantial discount, by clicking the link at the top of this post. Really, really useful for anybody wanting to add some tools into their post-production toolbox, and a must-have for wedding and fine art photographers.
