Retro Gadgets: Kodak Ektachrome Film
Ward Jenkins scanned in this lovely and informative booklet about Kodak Ektachrome film from 1955.
After looking through the pages, I remembered how irritatingly difficult photography was for me before my first digital camera. The photos I took wouldn’t be seen for days or months after I shot them. That left me with such a delay of feedback that I never got any better at photography. It wasn’t until my first digital camera that I started to get better: no more cut off heads or meaty fingers over the lens.
Film was the biggest drawback to photography for me. I constantly had to decide whether each thing was film-worthy or not. Now that I’m on digital, I am a Photography Cowboy. I shoot ’em all and let God sort ’em out. Okay, God doesn’t sort my oceans of files, but iPhoto is the next best thing.
I’m so grateful for the digital photography era. Reading through that Kodak booklet made that crystal clear for me again.