Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> wrote: >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. :-) I used a lot of Agfacolour slide film in the mid to late 1960s, and looking at the slides now, they seem to have a brown tinge - but I suspect they always did. (I can remember photographing a bridge whose structure was painted with red-lead pain, and noticing that this appeared chocolate brown on the newly-processed slides.) I've recently been looking through a collection of slides taken in the early-to-mid sixties on Kodachrome and Perutz reversal films. All the transparencies which had been left in card or plastic mounts still had excellent colour, but those which had been bound between glass were badly faded. Regards, Doug Richardson