Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Agfa and Dufay Color
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 21:05:19 -0500

At 09:31 AM 9/3/98 -0400, you wrote:

>Kodachrome was the third colour process released, coming on the American
>market around 1936 and available in Europe around 1938.  The first colour
>process was the Dufay process, which entered the market around 1934, while
>Agfa's process came out a year or so later.

When I did research in school on the technology of photojournalism, I
remember reading that the Agfa faded so fast you could almost set your
clock by it. :-)
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Calm down -- it's only ones and zeros.