The crap in the basement has long since passed critical mass, so,
at the urging (not quite nagging, not just yet) of the lady of the
house, I spent an hour or so this morning digging through some old
photo-related stuff way over in the darkest corner. It was there
that I came across my three old, not-looked-at-in-20-years-or-more
Kodak Reference Handbooks: No. 1, "Black-and-White Picture
Taking;" No. 2, "Black-and-White Processing and Printing," and No.
3, "Kodak Color Handbook - Materials, Processes, Techniques."
In a fit of nostalgia, I opened the color handbook to the back
section behind the tab labeled "Notes" to see what pearls of
wisdom I had recorded in the distant past, and there I found,
neatly hole-punched and inserted into the binder, complete
instructions sheets from a series of Ektachrome processing kits.
There were, in descending order, E-4 instructions, dated 6/73; E-3
instructions, dated 5/59, and, most depressing, E-2 instructions,
dated 8/56.
I now realize I really am older than dirt. Have I been squinting
at the world through a viewfinder or watching it upside down on a
ground glass for half a century? Why am I still doing this? Has
my learning curve gone completely flat? Why don't I have a life?
Will it be film or digital in the great beyond? Should I care?
It was just too, too depressing down there, so I came upstairs,
got a cold one out of the fridge. I'm feeling a little better
now. It's a pretty, sunny day here, bright blue sky, heading for
the 50's on the F. scale (sorry, you folks in the frigid north!),
and so I think I'll wander outside and shoot something. I may
even do it with a camera, possibly even an OM of one sort or
another.
Walt
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