Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thanks Don...that is very reassuring especially given the very low humidity here, where I live...Steve On May 28, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Don Dory wrote: > Steve, > I found a German slide show on color loss and color restoration. > Specifically for Kodachorme at Arizona temperature you would lose > about half > the life of the slide assuming humidity at 80%. Color loss was pretty > linear with a small cyan crossover so reds would increase > somewhat. In a > practical sense you would lose saturation. A key point though is > humidity > is a necessary catalyst up to a point. > > In summary, if your slides were taken on old Koadachrome stock they > should > look unchanged for about 35-40 years in un-air conditioned space > assuming > old Arizona climate before everybody watered the lawn and put in > swimming > pools. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 5/28/06, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote: >> >> Hi Don...see my little question below please... >> >> and enjoy your Sunday... >> >> >> On May 28, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Don Dory wrote: >> >> > Hoppy, >> > If your slide was stored in the dark >> >> >> how about in the dark... but occasionally exposed to hi >> temperatures.... as here in Arizona...? thanks, Steve >> >> >> > then I would suspect little or no >> > change in the colors. I could tell you a tale about some >> > Ektachrome slides >> > that are about thirty years old and probably processed in the new >> > to that >> > time washless E-6. The only color really available is red/magenta. >> > Possibly why I switched to Fujichrome so long ago. >> > >> > But color is such a personal decision. We all see color >> > differently. I was >> > reminded of this when I was wandering through a bunch of Cezanne >> > paintings >> > with their strange palatte for skin tones. Did the color look to >> > Cezanne >> > like skin tone? How much impressionism was there? >> > >> > Anyway, keep posting. >> > >> > Don >> > don.dory@gmail.com >> > >> > >> > On 5/28/06, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >> >> >> >> Folks I've recently started a new album and have received some >> >> helpful >> >> hints >> >> and encouragement. >> >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/analog-images >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> One or two people made comment on an old scan of an abandoned >> >> farmhouse. >> >> >> >> One graciously shared with me what could be done with an 11X14 >> view >> >> camera. >> >> (thanks a bunch Jim, more gear to lust after when I'm trying to >> >> fund more >> >> Leica glass right now!) >> >> >> >> For my interest and those helpful correspondents, I have located a >> >> similar >> >> original from the same film. >> >> >> >> The original was in fact Kodachrome64 (Curse you K, why can't I >> >> buy it >> >> anymore?) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> So, K64 about 20+yrs old, scanned with Nikon Coolscan V scanner. >> >> >> >> Was late afternoon certainly, and I think UV filter but not >> >> Polarizer. >> >> >> >> Both versions treated as identically as possible in PS; minimal >> >> crop for >> >> format to A4 print, dust and scratch manually spot healed, >> >> >> >> minimal sharpen, But one using ROC (restoration of colour) and one >> >> without. >> >> >> >> I personally prefer the ROC version, but then for me K64 was >> >> always the >> >> colour as you'd like it to be rather than perhaps as it was. >> >> >> >> Really can't quite decide how much the original has faded. The >> >> curves & >> >> saturation in each version are as scanned, minor B&W points >> >> compression. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Anyway I was surprised to see that the ICE3 Nikon Scan software >> >> would work >> >> at all on Kodachrome. >> >> >> >> Perhaps only the dust reduction doesn't work on K & B&W emulsions. >> >> >> >> If anyone else has experience in using this scanner, especially >> >> with other >> >> software, I'd love to hear from you. I have the supplied Nikon >> >> Scan 4.02and >> >> VueScan Pro.8.3.4.2 >> >> >> >> Specifically your workflow, especially from those folks who >> shoot a >> >> hundred >> >> times more film than this amateur every year. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> Hoppy, >> >> >> >> FNG >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Leica Users Group. >> >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information