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The images were mostly shot on 100ASA and 200ASA Ektachrome, but I must admit that for the New Zealand trip I took along a half a dozen Kodachrome 64s. I hadn’t used it for a couple of years and forgot just how good a film it is when shooting in clean clear air on a sunny day. Hot tip. If you are going to Tasmania or the South Island of New Zealand in summer, take a couple of rolls of the Kodachrome as well as some black and white Ilforchrome and print the best shots when you get back. Memories for life.
Software
At the time the only software that could cut it was Adobe Photoshop. I used version 4.0 because most of the creative side of the project was done before version 5.0 was released and the last thing I needed in the production phase was to have to learn new tricks.
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Hardware
The whole show was made with a 1996 vintage Macintosh OS computer. The CPU is actually the very excellent UMAX Pulsar Pro 200 with 80Mb of RAM, two internal SCSI II hard disks; one a 4 gigabyte IBM and the other the 2.1 gigabyte Quantum unit that came with the box. I was always going to get more RAM but managed with what I have.
The monitor was an AppleVision 750AV Trinitron. The automatic calibration and Apple ColorSync made life so much easier. Hot Tip: Do not scrimp on the monitor. Having a monitor which can be quickly and easily calibrated to match output made the final production (printing) phase a breeze.
The 4Gb (gigabyte) hard disk was partitioned to create a 3 gig. storage volume and a 1 gig. scratch disk (which wasn’t big enough for about half of the work).
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