Re: [Leica] Re: Agfacolour fading

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

Where they in cold storage?

There is a book "Care and permance of color photos"
or something close, easy to find on amazon.

One of the points in it is that if you store 
Kodachrome in the dark, it lasts it really
long time, like several decades.

And if you store it in a proper fridge
(some issues with not freezing and humidity)
that several decades gets *really* long,
like 2000 years projected or some such.

Color negs aren't nearly so long life to
begin with, but they get a similar boost.

bmw

- -----Original Message-----
From: Doug Richardson <doug@meditor.demon.co.uk>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 2:06 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Agfacolour fading


>
>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
>
>
>