An old Kodachrome pic is making people go gaga online

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:London_%2C_Kodachrome_by_Chalmers_Butterfield.jpg

Casioculture@gmail.com

Re: An old Kodachrome pic is making people go gaga online

I think my dad bought one of them as our first car :O)
Ah, yes, of course. i was put off the big adverts as some of those are
long term things, but yes, cinema signs etc would be a great help.
I agree entirely, I found it a very interesting old pic
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Paul Heslop

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DUH! I "SAW" no information on the photographer ...
Other than the headline says "Kodachrome by Chalmers Butterfield".
Google hasn't turned up anything on Chalmers Butterfield except for
various links, either direct or indirect, back to the image in question.
Now I'm interested. Anyone know anything about who Chalmers Butterfield
is, was, or might have been?


No_name

Re: An old Kodachrome pic is making people go gaga online

Well, at that time post-WWII Britian was still undergoing lingering
remnants of wartime austerity. Given post-war Britian's economic
situation, that the cars even look like 1945 is amazing.
Not having gone back to look at it, I think they dated it from the
theater marquees advertising plays & movies. The movies set the earliest
date, and the plays the latest (based on who the advertised actors were)
So considering it was sharp enough someone could read names off the
marquee, it's pretty damn good for a 50+ year old snapshot.


No_name

Re: An old Kodachrome pic is making people go gaga online

Shame. I would have trouble concentrating on anything long enough to
work out the crap, but the cars look nearer to 45 than 50... though
having said that they could be old style black cabs. I reckon the only
true guide would have been if we could see a newspaper headline :O)
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Paul (Neurotic to the bone No doubt about it)
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Paul Heslop

Re: An old Kodachrome pic is making people go gaga online

No, the article indicates it was probably taken some time between Sept
1949 and Aug 1950, but I saw no information on the photographer or
equipment.


No_name

Re: An old Kodachrome pic is making people go gaga online

Yes. With hard drives going for less than a dollar a gigabyte, why bother?


William Graham

Re: An old Kodachrome pic is making people go gaga online

That may be a problem, even if you can find a drive.
The magnetic media in diskettes is like old video tape. It DOES
deteriorate over time, especially if not used.
I've had a lot of trouble with reading old DOS DATA files from diskette,
even from 3.5" disks. It appears to be partly XP doesn't like to
cooperate & partly the disks just go bad after sitting for so long.


No_name

Re: An old Kodachrome pic is making people go gaga online

In Non-Fiction, there's Clifford Stohl's "Silicone Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Superhighway". Its dated, but he expresses
his concerns regarding the archiving of digital data, in a narrative
outgrowth of how he was unable to retrieve some NASA data that they had
saved in IIRC 7 different digital formats before shutting down the
program, but he was able to extract astronomy records on the same star
from written Chinese Ming Dynasty records.
Here's the URL to a paper I presented several years ago. It is a
Macintosh PowerPoint v.2 file, and you'll find that the current
versions of MS-Powerpoint refuse to recognize it:
<http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/ADPA.snipertrainer>
This serves as my illustration of how merely being successful in
retaining the digital bits isn't enough. The implications are that
*every* software and hardware upgrade will require going back through
your database to make sure everything is 100% forward-compatible before
you get rid of the older application/hardware. It isn't all that hard
to do this - - it is merely time consuming, and time is money.
-hh


-hh

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"Studio271" <studio271@gmail.com> wrote
Yes, but ... take away all manufactured product and what is left?
Naked folks sitting in a field are going to look the same today as they
did 35,000 years ago.
It is the _things_ in the picture that define the lifestyle.


Nicholas O. Lindan

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I mean, the issue I was intending to bring up wasn't even really so
much associated with photography, as much as it was with the subjects
of photography.
<rant>
You look at the modern image of the two, and all you see are the names
of corporations which haven't even been around for more than 100 years
(and I don't see them lasting much longer either); you don't see
personalized messages, intriguing details, unusual people, etc.. You
see crap, basically.. Formulated, digested, and completely defecated
crap, most of which came from the minds of a bunch of overpaid
marketing buffoons.
Whatever happened to people doing things for the sake of their own
personal memories? There's just no individualism in the world today,
and it's a sad thing, especially when photographers aren't paying any
attention to what little is still around.
In a few centuries, assuming a human society still exists (doubt it),
will we have the ability to look back at this time and have a good
interpretation of what it was like to live then?
Hell, do what photographs we have of a century ago TODAY do that time
period any justice, in the same vein?
I'm just another pessimistic complainer who isn't willing to find a way
to change the status quo, though.
</rant>


Studio271

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