Ah, now there's another technically. You actually could make a slide from
Verichrome Pan - a BLACK and WHITE transparency. I used to make them back in
the sixties - I believe we used Kodak Direct
Reversal processing, but could be wrong about the name. Also, beside
panchromatic and orthochromatic there was an orthonon film base.
Wayne
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Garth Wood wrote:
> At 05:18 PM 31/03/2002 -0500, Walt Wayman wrote:
> >I must've missed the beginning of this discussion, having deleted
> >a lot of stuff unread lately because of other things to do and a
> >lack of interest in some topics, but Verichrome Pan was NOT
> >a "slide" film. It was a 125 ASA B&W negative film, available
> >only as roll film, neither as sheet or 35mm. It may be the only
> >Kodak "-chrome" film that's not a slide film, so that part of its
> >name doesn't count. But the "pan" part means it was panchromatic,
> >as opposed to orthochromatic, which I doubt many of the younger
> >folks here even know there ever was any such a thing as.
>
> Actually, I realized the mistake about one nanosecond after I sent the
> message, but it was one of those "Ah, what the Hell" moments for me, and I
> *knew* that someone would catch it and correct it.
>
> And yeah, I knew about the difference between pan and ortho, and why it was
> called "Pan." *** HEAVY SIGH ***
>
> Oh well, whatever. I suspect it was called "Verichrome Pan" because it was
> Kodak's way of saying it's "Truly All-Chromatic." ;-)
>
> Garth
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