{"id":21263,"date":"2018-05-27T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21263"},"modified":"2018-05-24T08:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T12:23:31","slug":"classic-chrome-on-this-day-in-1988-i-had-2020-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/classic-chrome-on-this-day-in-1988-i-had-2020-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Chrome: On this Day in 1988 I had 2020 Vision."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, make that a vision of Conrail 2020.<\/p>\n

It was just after 8am on May 27, 1988, when I exposed this portrait (vertical) view of Conrail BAL013 stopped at CP123 east of Chester, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The sun was perfect and I used this opportunity to make several photos of the train as it held for westward Conrail intermodal freight TV9, which passed CP123 at 8:13am<\/p>\n

This is a Kodachrome 25 slide (using the professional PKM emulsion) exposed using a Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron lens.<\/p>\n

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I scanned the original Kodachrome slide with a Nikon Coolscan5000 scanner using VueScan. Later I scaled the file using Lightroom. I did not alter color balance, contrast, sharpness or other inherent characteristics. The original image has an overall cyan (blue-green) bias that was characteristic of Kodachrome from that period.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I calculated my exposure using a Sekonic Studio Deluxe light meter, and set the camera at f6.3 (half way between the marks for f5.6 and f8) at 1\/125th<\/sup>of a second. This was equivalent to my standard exposure for \u2018full sun\u2019.<\/p>\n

I learned when I moved west that \u2018full sun\u2019 is brighter in the Western states than in New England. A bright day in the Nevada desert is a full stop difference than in the Berkshires of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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Ok, make that a vision of Conrail 2020. It was just after 8am on May 27, 1988, when I exposed this portrait (vertical) view of Conrail BAL013 stopped at CP123 east of Chester, Massachusetts. The sun was perfect and I used this opportunity to make several photos of the train as it held for westward … Continue reading Classic Chrome: On this Day in 1988 I had 2020 Vision.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4704,4537,4459,41,53,7535,9,29],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Conrail_BAL013_with_B23-7_2020_at_CP123_east_of_Chester_MA_8am_May27_1988_PKM_with_Leica_50mm_lens\u00a9Brian_Solomon_610248-2.jpg?fit=1803%2C1109","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5wX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21266,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263\/revisions\/21266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}