Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc/Ted, Your image degrades less if ou keep all your slides in a dark area. It is exposure to light that is the destructive force. Besides, the newer E-6 films do have a longer life expectancy than older emulsions. Only time will tell, but with the demise of Kodachrome what choice will one have. Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@roanoke.infi.net] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 3:20 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodachrome Blues At 01:50 PM 2/6/2000 -0800, Ted Grant wrote: > >Besides, in reality guys and gals, are any of the pictures we shoot today >going to be of any "real importance" 70-100 years down the line? Maybe so >if you're shooting the world political scene and or other world interest >subjects. > >But I'm sure at that time, on average, nobody is going to give a hoop >whether it was E6 or kodachrome. > No, Ted, people WILL care, as the E-6 stuff will almost certainly be bare film with only the faintest trace of a picture, while the K-14 shots will still have a viewable image. And family members will care, deeply, about even the most simple of happy snaps, while ethnologists love nothing better than finding a trove of local-color pictures from a century back. No, people WILL care, and E-6 won't last. Maybe the next generation, but not this one -- in 25 years, your images will be faded, faded, faded. I recently printed up (Ilfochrome) some Kodachrome slides my folks shot of themselves shortly after they were married. More than a half-century ago, and those wonderful Kodachrome colours survive. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!