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When Kodachrome Doesn't Cut It Anymore: A Photographer's Story
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When Kodachrome Doesn't Cut It Anymore: A Photographer's Story

I have been going over a ton of old 35mm slides. And I found many of them were just boring- even Kodachrome. Most were flat and had blown out skies and exposure issues. I needed to roll out a creative weapon- Topaz Studio 2. Not only did I find a fresh look to my old film shots, but I also found a new approach to my digital images that’s entirely my own!

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Meet the 100-Pound Grandfather of Modern Video Production
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Meet the 100-Pound Grandfather of Modern Video Production

Every now and then you see a piece of vintage gear that just stops you in your tracks. For me, it's this machine. It looks like something out of a 1950’s sci-fi movie like (“Forbidden Planet” comes to mind). So I did a little digging, and the real story is even cooler. This is the Ampex VR-3000, and it’s one of the most important and wildly impractical pieces of video gear that you’ll ever see, and it was instrumental in getting video production out of the studio.

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