Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i wish to warn all of those cheering various forms of the E-6 color process, that the transparencies do not last. thirty years is about it. my agfachromes from the late 40s and early 50s are gone. mt ektachromes from the late 50s through about '65 are clearly fading. if you want archival results, and you must use an ektachrome, etc., then preserve your really valuable transparencies via the three color separation process (this IS archival.) for anything else, either store them in the deep freeze or prepare to lose your precious scenes in about 30 years. this is not true of clasic kodachrome, and thought not to be true of the faster newer kodachromes. i have a 1945 kodachrome which, for all its 'false' color, is exactly what it was when first processed in 1945. i was lead astray by my search for truer, more neutral media, in a revulsion against kodachrome!