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1. Animats · 1790624236 · focus · HN ↗

   Ah, yes, the 1970s, before the invention of color film.

   1. browningstreet · 1790624359 · focus · HN ↗

      You can process and print B&W yourself. Color needs to go to a lab.

      B&W is also standard for street and art photography.

      You're gonna argue this _now_?

      "The past is stupid"

      1. anschwa · 1790624545 · focus · HN ↗

         You can develop color at home too, it's pretty much the same process and effort but with different chemicals.

         1. Animats · 1790625050 · focus · HN ↗

            Not for Kodachrome, which was good but is dead due to the complexity of processing.

            1. abcd_f · 1790626117 · focus · HN ↗

               Don't know if they were Kodachrome, but I still have some color Kodak slides that my dad developed at home in the late 80s.

               1. jcynix · 1790632613 · focus · HN ↗

                  Definitely not Kodachrome. The process to use at home was Kodak's Ektachrome. Still much more work than the much simpler b&w processing.

                  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ektachrome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ektachrome

                  1. abcd_f · 1790686427 · focus · HN ↗

                     Must&#x27;ve been that. Will check if there are any markings on slides. I do remember the process being rather involved.
      2. kurthr · 1790625698 · focus · HN ↗

         Color Polaroids came out in the mid 60s. Color SX-70s were commonplace in the 70s.

         1. GuinansEyebrows · 1790625916 · focus · HN ↗

            i love instant cameras but they aren&#x27;t really used for professional photography except as a novelty or as a specific artistic choice, and sx-70 isn&#x27;t a particularly stable medium.

            1. kurthr · 1790632432 · focus · HN ↗

               Professionals aren&#x27;t developing at home unless they have a darkroom, which were fully capable of doing color negatives in the 1970s. If you can shove color into a self-developing mobile consumer device, a professional can have it done.

               Somehow this needs to be about poor constrained do-it-yourself professionals?

                  You can process and print B&W yourself. Color needs to go to a lab.
               

               The consumer &quot;street&quot; photography of the time was mostly Polaroids, or little tiny box cameras you had developed at a booth.

               This has all to do with a feel, and It could be that it was mostly shot in color and converted to B&amp;W. Or, the wonderful dynamic range of B&amp;W could be the reason. That&#x27;s fine, but it has nothing to do with lack of choice.

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