Kodak Photo; Vol. 1, No. 2; Fall 1946
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* GORGEOUS COLOR deserves fair treatment-and smooth showing with The "Kodaslide Projector , Model 2A, and the a dash of showmanship. Kodaslide Changer make a natural "projection Item One is a well-designed projector team"-they bring real luxury to home showing. Make sure yours is well ventilated, has heat- absorbing glass in the light beam to protect No "fumbling in the dark" here. You slip 50 your slides, and has a lens of f/4.5 or higher Kodaslides into the Changer-then sit back, re- aperture, corrected to yield sharp, brilliant laxed, and feed them through, slowly or swiftly as color images on the screen. you wish, each with a mere push of the thumb. Use file boxes-such as Kodaslide Se- At 16 feet, the p r ojector brilliantly fills a quence Files-to keep your slides in order, and prevent loss or damage. They'll a!so 52-inch screen. Its big f/3.5 lens and superb help you arrange related slides for sequence condenser system are fully Lumenized-all glass showing. surfaces coated to yield image brilliance far sur- passing ordinary p rojectors of even higher wattage. An automatic changer adds immeasurably to the pleasure of showing Kodaslides; pic- And its heat-absorbing filter guards your slides. tures change at a flick of the thumb. Here's equipment to show your color at its best. A good screen-and a thoroughly darkened * Incidentally, the K odaslide Changer also fits the inexpensive room-permit Kodachrome shots to reveal Kodaslide Projector Mo d el l - which also is equipped with an / / 3.5 their full richness and purity of calor. lens, and performs r ight along with its " big brother," tbe 2A. See. Page 19 of thi's issue of PHOTO far EASTMAN KODAK CO., ROCHESTER 4, N.Y. further projection tips. Dear Jack: If this letter turns out all tangled up with Keats andJamesWhitcomb Riley ye olde nut-brown atmosphere-just charge ke your breath away." it to the season. Autumn is full upon us here. The maples on the lawn are so beautifuf with the sun streaming down through them, they maybe s y pretty as a bunch of pic- take your breath away! A few tidy people are tures. for pictured the whole business. already burning leaves; there's a pale blue Beth accused me of \ goldbricking-but haze over the park, and the smell of smoke really, there's a lot of color in a vegetable in the air. garden, even at the end of the season. It will I only wish you could wind up your assign- make a nice series, to complete the garden ment and get back here before all the leaves story you began last spring. We'll mail the are gone. You'd love it-no matter how slides to you when they arrive colorful the palm trees and the flares and the Saturday we all drove out to the farm, se noritas are down that way-but we'll have where D ad is nursing our Thanksgiving tur- the pictures to send you pretty soon key along-literally stuffing the poor bird Incidentally, there were some mighty attrac- to death. Billy, of course, was fascin tive girls in that last reel of movie film y'ou the pumpkins; he's all steamed mailed up here. Hm! Are you actually as Halloween, and very much homesick as you say? ' the "Gobble-uns that gits you ef Your mother and rhine jumped in the car ' watch out." We're planning a yesterday and kited off to the mountains, for party for him and some of his a week of "no men and no dirty dishes." took a hike down to the lake with They took the Bantam and a half-dozen rolls to the little spur with the of Kodachrome; left me the "35," because birches; the trees were just I've used it more. Your. father, of course, and gold, with s es of seized the opportunity to tear away on his and deeper re hunting trip. the distance. I'v Beth and I have been finishing off the there garden with a session of canning and preserv- ing. We had a wonderful time this morning. Just about all the tomatoes are now reposing rosily in mason jars, pretty as a picture. Or "Billy's all steamed up over Halloween, and very much "Beth and I have been finishing off the garden I pic- impressed with the 'Gobble-uns that gits you ef you don't tured the whole business She accused me of goldbrick- watch out! ... We're planning a Halloween party for him." ing, but, really, there's a lot of color in a vegetable garden ..." costumes, the jack-o' -lantern, Billy lighting it up, and all. And Sue's birthday party next month, too-presents, cake, games, the whole works. Eight candles this time; the years fly by, don't they? Remember the shot you made of her first birthday cake? I'm hoping to get her a Brownie Reflex for a birthday gift; a simple reflex is the perfect camera for a child, and she's old enough now to use one. And by the way- speaking of gifts-it's time you started thinking about what you would like for Christmas. A lot of things are still scarce, and I'd like to start my Christmas shopping early-now that the pre-school shop- ping for Billy and Sue is finished and off my mind. Drop a hint-will you? I've traded in the old slide projector on a new one, and it's already on its way to you- so you can show your Latin-American friends your family's ''jotograjzas en co-LO-res!" as " ••• The trees were just one blaze of orange and gold, with splashes of red here and there, and deeper reds and purples on the hills in the distance so there are a half dozen more shots for our collection." 4 they should be shown. Along with it I sent looking funny enough right now! some of our best flower garden shots, and They've been wonderful years, J ack- several skiing sequences-which shouid inter- every moment of them- and I'm so glad now est folks down that way. we kept the details, the places we visited, the Sunday, if the weather stays good, we're good times we had, the whole story as we went going on a picnic-maybe the last one of the along. Remember how I used to fuss because season. The spot-you guessed it- under the you spent so much time on it?-and now I big beech tree where you cut your initials and spend more time than you ! mine one autumn day eighteen years ago. Now, don't send me any more frantic wires I'll probably shoo the children away, and to "get this" and "don't forget to shoot that." have a good lonesome daydream all by my- I have the situation well covered. Just keep self, remembering. your shirt on-take good care of yourself- Last night, thinking about it, I took down and hurry home to us. our albums and went back over the years. With all our love, Anne. It's really something to thumb through the pages, watch the children grow up bit by bit, see new faces appear-watch Beth graduate MEXICO, D. F. from bib to pinafore to her first party dress- SHIRT STILL ON HOPE THANKSGIVING PICTURE follow Sue off to that first woeful day at kindergarten. What a wistful little figure she SERIES EMBRACES ALL INCIDENTALS INCLUDING was! I laughed over those funny tall pinched DISHWASHING WHICH I WILL BE INTERESTED collars you used to wear, and those comic TO SEE BUT HAPPY TO MISS STOP AM SENDING 1929 hats of mine, like little round pots! MORE KODACHROME SENORITAS KEEP IN COOL Probably ten years from now the 1946 hats will look just as funny and "historical"-and PLACE STOP HOME CHRISTMAS HOORAY LOVE no cracks from you, young man, about their JACK. 5 Shots, So... GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO RISE, SHINE, AND BE ENJOYED friends find a new meaning and pleasure in the pictures. In short, your pictures are being given a chance to rise, shine, and be them- selves. The "mechanics" of album-keeping should be simple. As soon as you complicate things, you invite procrastination. Use any good, non-cockling adhesive or gummed corners or mounting tissue-whichever is most conven- ient for you. By the way, a bit of extra care is in order in mounting Kodachrome Prints . IT's very strange. Many an enthusiastic pic- Because the ma terial is an acetate, an ad- ture maker has a blind spot as far as making hesive such as Kodak Rapid Mounting use of his finished pictures is concerned. He Cement is indicated . Dry mounting tissue, uses a fine camera expertly; he has a full Thermount, or any other adhesive which complement of accessories; he knows a lot requires heat and pressure should be used about the theory of photography. But his with care; excessive heat is tough on color of finished prints languish in tattered envelopes, any kind. Kodak Thermount, used with a old shoe boxes, or-and worst of all-scat- Thermount Iron, gives consistently good re- tered loose in some desk or bureau drawer. sults. This is a sad situation. It is wasteful, a nd it Aside from the simple mechanical opera- is a sheer negation of the fundamental reason tions of arrangement and mounting, there's for making pictures.