From a friend:
"Back in the mid '70s when I was working at Hellers Camera in Bethesda Md. I
had a reference book with a color photo of the battleship Pennsylvania in an
advanced base sectional dock, somewhere in the Pacific in about 1944. The
quality of the photo made it clear that it was shot with a large format
camera, which puzzled me since I did not think Kodachrome (the only modern
color film of the time in the US) was available in sheet films. A guy I
worked with was an old Kodak hand (and WWII vet, a radioman in Europe) and
told me that they did have sheet Kodachrome, and that there was only one
machine to process the film, located in Rochester. The exposed film was sent
there for processing.
And note the almost complete lack of basic safety equipment. I saw only one
pair of safety glasses, and only a few of the workers were wearing gloves.
Working without gloves around sheet metal is an injury waiting to happen.
Notice most of the woman had lip stick and nail polish on. WWII
could not have been won without the woman of America stepping into
men's shoes to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
Fascinating! Some of these these images are 70 years old and look as
fresh as ever. If someone had told any of the subjects in these
photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2012...
boggles my mind. Thought you'd find this interesting !"
http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/4x5-kodachromes/
"Back in the mid '70s when I was working at Hellers Camera in Bethesda Md. I
had a reference book with a color photo of the battleship Pennsylvania in an
advanced base sectional dock, somewhere in the Pacific in about 1944. The
quality of the photo made it clear that it was shot with a large format
camera, which puzzled me since I did not think Kodachrome (the only modern
color film of the time in the US) was available in sheet films. A guy I
worked with was an old Kodak hand (and WWII vet, a radioman in Europe) and
told me that they did have sheet Kodachrome, and that there was only one
machine to process the film, located in Rochester. The exposed film was sent
there for processing.
And note the almost complete lack of basic safety equipment. I saw only one
pair of safety glasses, and only a few of the workers were wearing gloves.
Working without gloves around sheet metal is an injury waiting to happen.
Notice most of the woman had lip stick and nail polish on. WWII
could not have been won without the woman of America stepping into
men's shoes to build the equipment needed to defeat the axis powers.
Fascinating! Some of these these images are 70 years old and look as
fresh as ever. If someone had told any of the subjects in these
photos that we'd have such a clear look at them in the year 2012...
boggles my mind. Thought you'd find this interesting !"
http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/4x5-kodachromes/
