I Researched An Unfamiliar-To-Me Kodak Film, Using AI and HI (Human Intelligence). Which Got It Right?
My friend meant well. I know he did. While I awaited a response from my contacts who were "in the building" and could provide a first-hand answer, he posted the result of his query to Gemini, Google's latest, greatest AI assistant. The post started out innocuously enough: "Hey Facebrain (especially film nerds: " A client just sent me a stack of slides, some of which were labeled "Kodacolor Transparency Film." I haven't seen this before. "It's not Ektachrome, which generally fades to blue over time, and (based on how the blue/green dyes have faded, leaving very red-ish results), it's definitely NOT Kodachrome. To further complicate matters (or perhaps just me), "Kodacolor" was generally used to denote negative (print) film. Here, however, it was used for a slide film. Usually, slide film would end in "-chrome" "The slide holders were stamped to indicate they were processed in 1961, if that's of any help. A...
