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What Kinds of Images Print Well Big & What's All this Kodak Endura Nonsense?
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NikoDoby said:
As for which picture why don't you spend MLK day creating a survey. We will help you that way. You can then analyze the results and present it to us in another glorious bar graph with a slick border and impressive title :^)So that get's choosing a couple photos out of the way...
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The big hubbub over Endura is that Kodak discontinued the standard variant of Supra Endura, which was known for its great color and subtle tones. It was a flexible RA-4 paper, as opposed to the Endura Ultra which is more saturated and more heavy handed.
All the papers are decent, but it's a shame to see the real Endura get canned. I can't wait till next year when I'll have the Durst Lambda in the school's IS lab to print on...
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ChrisLange said:
All the papers are decent, but it's a shame to see the real Endura get canned.Yeah, at this point I don't think I should worry too much about the paper, everyone has different preferences and like you said all the papers are good. Kodak killed the original Endura with Kodachrome though? Wow, what a company...
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Yay, somebody actually bothered voting for one of my photos! Thanks! :^D
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Kodachrome needed to die, the processing chemistry wasn't viable to keep in production, and the colour reproduction was lagging behind the E6 films in recent times. Ever since E-6 chrome came onto the scene, Kodachrome's been on the decline. Sometimes slides would come back with awful green or magenta casts (great if you're a hipster into lomo BS, bad if you had a $40,000 cover shoot riding on those chromes). I personally use Fuji's E6 emulsions whenever I shoot color reversal, and have been nothing but pleased with Astia and Provia.
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Yes, I know Kodachrome was finished. But it's too bad they killed the Endura thing too.
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Kodak still has Supra Endura. There's just different versions of it. The current "digital" version is Supra Endura VC. As far as I know this newer version can handle RA-4 process. You can still buy RA-4 color Endura too.
I still have a stock pile of Kodachrome I haven't decided to use or freeze in carbonite.
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BTW when's the due date for the slick bar graphs? 8^D
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NikoDoby said:
Kodak still has Supra Endura. There's just different versions of it. The current "digital" version is Supra Endura VC. As far as I know this newer version can handle RA-4 process. You can still buy RA-4 color Endura too.I still have a stock pile of Kodachrome I haven't decided to use or freeze in carbonite.
No, no, no! That's the problem, it's VC or UC! Those papers yield significantly hotter colors than the traditional Supra Endura (equivalent to the "NC" line of portra films). It's still on the shelves in a number of places, but they have stopped producing it, which is sad.
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Yeah but that ebay Kodachrome expired in 2007! The batch I have is the last that Kodak made and hasn't expired yet :^)
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ChrisLange said:
No, no, no! That's the problem, it's VC or UC! Those papers yield significantly hotter colors than the traditional Supra Endura (equivalent to the "NC" line of portra films). It's still on the shelves in a number of places, but they have stopped producing it, which is sad.NikoDoby said:
Yeah but that ebay Kodachrome expired in 2007! The batch I have is the last that Kodak made and hasn't expired yet :^)Double blast it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ChrisLange said:
No, no, no! That's the problem, it's VC or UC! Those papers yield significantly hotter colors than the traditional Supra Endura (equivalent to the "NC" line of portra films). It's still on the shelves in a number of places, but they have stopped producing it, which is sad.Hmm I've used both and I can't really see as big of a difference as you say. I actually prefer the flexibility of VC. It's not as big of a loss as Kodachrome :^(
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