Camera Club Night. At the moment there are two types of club nights, The Club books a room in the club every other week, where we have a formal night running competitions or other club activities, and the other night is a “Bar Night”. Bar Nights are a good opportunity to have a bit of a social, which is something that we wouldn’t do very often.
Tonight’s bar night was a bit of a mixture of topics of discussion from who needs 60 megapixels? Well there will be professionals for whom there will never be enough, and some amateurs who have a specialised interest, but in my view everybody else will never need images that big. Through to a person’s career in Kodak.
Kodak was definitely my go to company when I was using film or slides. I don’t know why, they did lovely books, and I liked the colour scheme of the company and the quality of their material was excellent. I don’t understand why they had the foresight to expand on their invention of the first digital camera (how ironic). I remember very well the visit Steve and I had to the Kodak factory in Hemel Hempstead, organised for us by my sister. I can remember the visit very well. We were treated very nicely, and the tour was fascinating. I particularly remember when they took us into the production area. You’d expect to walk through a set of big airlock doors to keep light out – no, I can’t remember what they called it, perhaps a light curtain, but it was a beautifully curved corridor, starting at one end in normal light, walking through in to total darkness.
That brought back some memories. A very pleasant evening.
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