60 Years Ago - June 1956

[Julio Fernandez]

<p>Marc, thanks for posting this. It is a great issue, with the HPS, Verichrome and Canon articles. </p>

<p>As a boy, I developed thousands of rolls of Verichrome Pan from box cameras, helping in my father's drugstore photo lab, so that article brought back memories of those red and yellow paper rolls.</p>

<p>Both the Canon V and the Vitessa had unusual film advance mechanisms. It was a time for experimenting. </p>

<p>The information theory article by Varden is timely in this year in which Claude Shannon would have had his 100th birthday, and its relationship to photography is today much closer, with compression techniques of digital images.</p>

<p>And I like very much those little photography cartoons at the bottom of some pages! </p>