{"id":5805,"date":"2016-05-26T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2016-05-26T20:11:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:11:21","slug":"verichrome-and-super-xx-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/verichrome-and-super-xx-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Verichrome and Super-XX films"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kodak<\/a>

Kodak Verichrome and Super-XX film.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. My friend George Dunbar sent me this ad <\/a>by email. The ad appeared in the December 1944 issue of LIFE magazine. As a kid our family could never afford the luxury of a magazine subscription – I read older issues of LIFE at the local barbershop on occasional Saturdays waiting for the owner Niles Reid or his associate to crop my unruly head.<\/p>\n

Verichrome (orthochromatic) was like Ilford XP-1 (panchromatic) in later years. It was actually two emulsions, one slow and one fast, so that common box cameras and folders of the day were sure to give a usable exposure – at least \u00a0in daylight. In grade six, I went on a bus tour with my trusty baby brownie. Believing the Kodak ads, I confidentially bought Super-xx so I could take photos in poor (indoor) light. Sadly, the film was far too slow to give a printable image of any snap taken indoors with my little f\/16 box camera.<\/p>\n

In any case, have a look at this LIFE Kodak ad <\/a>of some 70 years ago and think of how lucky we are today with our super high ISO cameras and\u00a0built-in optical stabilization. My little Sony NEX-6 auto adjusts the ISO level to as high as 3,200 ISO and\u00a0can be set to a fixed ISO from ISO 100 to ISO 25,600. Verichrome was about 125 ASA (ISO) tops and Super-XX slightly faster at 200 ASA (ISO) tops and fully pan-chromatically sensitive. Exposure was recommended to be below these setting!<\/p>\n

You will notice that the ad emphasizes how fast<\/em> the films are but NEVER gives the actual speed which is so painfully slow today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. My friend George Dunbar sent me this ad by email. The ad appeared in the December 1944 issue of LIFE magazine. As a kid our family could never afford the luxury of a magazine subscription – I read older … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[14,58,21,498,497],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-film","tag-history","tag-kodak","tag-super-xx","tag-verichrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5810,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}