Re: [Leica] b&w, color of the soul (was: Old colour film stock and back to pictures.)

["Joe Stephenson" <joeleica@email.msn.com>]

Donal,
You may be right in thinking of digitizing images as a good way of saving
them. However, beware of floppies. Data stored on floppies (3.5 or 5.25) has
a half life of 10 years or less. An optical disk may be truly archival.
Joe Stephenson
- -----Original Message-----
From: Donal Philby <donalphilby@earthlink.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] b&w, color of the soul (was: Old colour film stock and
back to pictures.)

>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
>
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