They took my Kodachrome away.

I didn't shoot a lot of Kodachrome back when I was still using film, but it still makes me a bit melancholy to see Kodak dropping it from their line. I usually favoured Fuji film because most of my pictures were outdoor nature shots, and I always felt that Fuji handled the blues and greens better. Even so, the main thing that kept me from doing much shooting with Kodachrome was its rather narrow exposure latitude.

Shooting regular film (and now digital) may not yield quite the same results, but at the same time I don't have to spend as much effort ensuring that I tailored the shot to match the film.

Kodachrome leaves behind a legacy of some truly great and memorable photography, though in fairness I think some of the credit has to go to the photographers as well.

Transformers 2

It would be a bit of an understatement to say that Transformers 2 is not receiving very positive reviews from the critics. In fact the film is being quite brutally savaged in the reviews, even by people who claimed to have liked the first one.

I can feel it quickly sliding off our summer "must see" list. atara's opinion on the matter might differ, but I don't like the idea of rewarding bad movie-making with my money, no matter how much I like giant transforming robots.