Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]D Khong wrote: > I shoot in both B&W and colour. Over the years, I have found to my > disappointment that my colour photographs are fading. So I thought it was > simply a matter of getting the lab to reprint more pics from my well kept > colour negatives. Lo and behold, the reprints showed considerable colour > shift and the appeareance is far from the original. A yellow cast is > obvious in almost all my reprints. These are from negs just 4 years old!! Dan, This is something we have discussed on these electrons in the past. The issue was the potential loss of most photojournalism since newspapers switched from BW to color neg. We may have a vast majority of photographically recorded history over the last 15 years that will soon be gone. In the deadline atmosphere little thought is given to archival practices. Even with prints. Only digitizing has some hope of surviving, unless selected images are some how preserved. I understand that Ernst Haas, mindful of history and despite shooting mostly Kodachrome, had selected images separated and transfered to monochrome film. While the early E6 films seem to be fading, more recent E6 films are claimed to have at least a 50 years life in archival conditions. But who on this entire list stores their film and prints in archival conditions? donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego http://www.donalphilby.com