Borden Tunnel posted:
Kent, if the steam shot was duplicated today, would that fit your idea of "timeless"?
Well, what I was thinking of by "timeless" was a pretty narrow context of being very difficult to date to a time period. Any photo with equipment in it would more or less date it, I think. I would definitely go along with the idea of frozen in time though. As for Kodachrome, I forgot about ISO 10 since I've never used it (of course.) Link shot ISO 100 Kodak b&w film, so shooting an ISO 10 film would require EIGHT times as much light. Considering Link was sometimes using enough flash bulbs to equal daylight (ISO 100 & f16,) that would be something to behold!
Rusty Traque posted:As Jack Delano was documenting the contemporary (at the time) scene for the federal government, (also, to say nothing of his talent...) to label him as a "foamer" is a gross injustice.
Rusty
I'm always a bit tongue in cheek about foamerism. I try not to take myself, an adult to who takes photos of choo-choos, too seriously. That can lead to pretentiousness.
Ed Mullan posted:From '38 to 1951, Kodachrome was made in sheet film, with an ASA of 8! and also type B, with a stunning 10 ASA, as I recall was used for flash.
I took many slides with the original Kodachrome 25, and even though many of them are 50 or so years old, they still look great. The developing process was changed later, for the 25, and I quit using it then, as it lacked, I thought, the quality of the older processing images.
Delano was a master photographer, only a master could have made so many great images with such slow film.
Ed
If the subject isn't moving, the film/shutter speed doesn't matter so much. I sometimes shoot Efke 25 in 4x5 sheets. However, if Delano was shooting ISO 25 (and usually at least f8) with a handheld Speed Graphic, that would be impressive!
Kent in SD
