Section Chair Rudy Kryger began by introducing section officers and announcing the results of the election for 1997-98 officers.
Ben Stone, the Kodak film sales representative for the Detroit area and a member and former Manager of the Detroit Section, announced his transfer to New York and introduced Pamela Zeh, the new area sales representative, who will be based in Chicago.
Pamela presented slides explaining some of the technical features of VISION II film stocks V200T and V250D, balanced for tungsten and daylight respectively. She said that the new films have many of the same attributes as the 5/7293 and 5/7297 films that they are replacing, but with better tone scale and color reproduction, wider latitude and more detail. Color saturation and sharpness have been improved, along with image structure and grain, the result of more uniform grain thickness.
Two 35mm demonstration films were shown. The first was produced by
Kodak in Hollywood from scenes shot by various professional
cinematographers and was intended to demonstrate the attributes and
capabilities of the new films in a theatrical sense.
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The second,
introduced by Sue Zygo, Project Leader for VISION II films, was a
technical demo, shot by Kodak cinematographers and assembled by the
VISION project development team in Rochester. It was more technical,
including A/B comparisons between the new films and their predecessors.
Sue continued the technical discussion and showed a third film, which was a 35mm print of footage shot with the 16mm version of the new film stocks.
Questions were answered by Sue, Pamela and Ben, and a drawing was held for two Kodak Cameo cameras.