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Kodak Instant Photo Slide Products

Kodak has developed a good quality color film that can be developed, trimmed and installed for use with 2" x 2" - 5" x 5cm" projectors of 35 mm construction, in just 15 minutes.

This color transparency film is designed to be used with a new series of audio-visual equipment and branch machines used in the business world. William Koch of Eastman Kodak presented this new achievement by saying:
This new series of Kodak's instant photographic products will meet the need for visual information exchange, including professional audio-visual producers as well as those who have never made or used slides.

- Artistic slides - computer production:

Coach added:
Kodak Instagraphic products are leading the way. (*) This is an easy and fast method for copying each of the artworks and computer productions on a colored transparent material that can work automatically or combined with traditional 35 mm color “slides”, such as the common Kodak Ectachrome films.
Koch continues:
As for professionals in the audio-visual field, including film producers and laboratories, new products are presented with cost-effective choices that immediately meet the needs of consumers who use slides to display information. The series of new products has also been designed to be used in conjunction with computer branches and other business world machines in offices, schools, health care institutions, and printing centers within and outside the institutions, if we suffice to mention only the possible locations of application.

Koch also said:
It happened that new computer technologies and devices of the business world have provided individuals with access to large amounts of information, and Kodak products - Instagraphic - are designed to make it easier and more convenient for these individuals to come forward and share information that the devices give, because we need to bridge the gap between our very accelerated energies to produce Information and our ability to display this information effectively and in a time-limited manner.

- New series of products

In addition to the Kodak Instagraphic film for the colored slide. The new product series includes a (*) Kodak Instagraphic (CRT) slideshow display, a Kodak Instagraphic slider (*) and a () Kodak Instagraphic slideshow stand.
Other items in this series include the Kodak Instagraphic Viewer, Edition, and the Kodak Instagraphic Film, Color Edition, both of which have been preloaded.

Video image recorders
In addition, Kodak Instagraphic's new products have been unveiled to many VCR makers, and a number of these companies are now planning to add these capabilities to their products. .
He added:
- Typically, the video image recorder will produce a somewhat more accurate image with correct colors, and since it records black and white (CrT) content with low contrast (*), there is no bending, curvature, or deviation in the image, this ability to produce slides Good quality, can be used immediately. It will add a new dimension to the capabilities of any video image recorder.

Effective exchange of information

Koch explained Kodak's strong foray into this new field by saying:
We have a growing need for a more effective exchange of information. This is due in part to the proliferation of developing, printing, and other possible library technologies for new information in the business world and schools.
One consequence of this proliferation is that the regulation of that information becomes an increasingly dynamic process. People who are accustomed to computers can handle large amounts of -
information, and create countless exhibits and models, and display all of this as maps, graphs, and various other visual structures. New information is always at our fingertips, and business managers who needed days or weeks in the past to prepare what should be displayed, now have to be able to integrate new information About meetings just hours or even minutes before.
Koch continued:
Information is not useful unless it is presented in an effective and timely manner to the people who need to make decisions or carry out actions.

A comprehensive field:

Why did Kodak focus on colored slides as the field concerned with bridging the informational gap between development and presentation... To that, Koch replied: The 35 mm slide and the circular Kodak slide sheet represent an entire field with standards covering the whole world. There are hundreds of thousands of slide models with a 2 x 2 inch structure in use. Around the year, this structure will be a global standard for displaying slides until the year 2000 at least.
Koch recounted the series of events that led to the development of Kodak's "Instagraphic" line of products, saying:
When we experimentally downloaded an early model Kodak Instagraphic Print (CRT) viewer and instant print film two years ago, they were seen at first as a very specialized product of people who were using color branches with computer graphics (*).
However, we soon discovered that people wanted to use this device for much broader purposes, they wanted color transparency that could be combined with Kodak Actachrome films when making presentations. They also sought immediacy—the ability to perform exposure, development, composition, and rendering in minutes. And at the top of the list of device user needs. Ease of use, convenience, flexibility, speed of availability and affordability, Instagraphic was designed to meet all of these needs so that everyone with the spin of a dial and the push of a button can now produce 2" x 2" color slides from a wide variety of original sources, including stamps. Computer, chart production and other three-dimensional objects original copy and displays (CRT).

Koch continued:
The vibrant colors of Kodak Instagraphic's color slide film enhance and vibrantly reproduce computer-generated graphic presentations.

- Making slides individually

Kodak Instagraphic family of products are designed to display single frames of film rather than rolls. There are ten individual film frames in each carton.
Koch explained:
There is no room for time, effort, and materials to be wasted if only one or two slides are needed, and this is consistent with the specific goal of the user, who seeks individual instant images, which secures the elements of convenience and low cost.
This, and while the series of new products provide its user with some choices, the principle remains the same. If a copy holder, slide viewer, or video image recorder (VIR) is used, it only takes a few seconds to expose an image on Kodak Instagraphic-grade color slide film.
After that, the film is released from the camera unit automatically, and there is a waiting period of between 8 and 15 minutes - depending on the existing temperature - while the slide acidifies itself and then peels off the backing material and allows the film to dry. After that, the transparent image is fed into the slide holder, and in one quick step, it runs Film trimming and mounting in a 35mm slide holder
2 x 2 inches to be ready for use⏹