Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/13/02 5:31 PM, Rolfe Tessem at rolfe@ldp.com wrote: >> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:33:27 -0500 >> From: "dante@umich.edu" <dante@umich.edu> >> Subject: Re: Provia 100F or K64? (was: Re: [Leica] Film survey.) >> Message-ID: <B8672F17.82FB%dante@umich.edu> >> References: >> >> The other issue is archival permanence, where Kodachrome beats all takers. >> I recently found a box of slides in the attic that had been sitting under a >> slate roof for 25 summers. Needless to say, the K64 slides were perfect; >> the Ektachromes and Fujichromes in there were green, blue and red. > > > I was recently going through some old boxes and found a stash of > Kodachromes I'd forgotten about. These were taken while on an assignment > to China from ABC in 1976 which was before China had opened up to the > West in general. Both the Great Wall and Tienamien Square look a lot > different today. > > These were both with an M4 and a 35mm Summicron 2nd version. I don't > remember when the change from Kodachrome II to Kodachrome 25 came about > so they may be on the former. They look absolutely unchanged from when I > last viewed them 25 years ago. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=518806&size=lg > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=518810&size=lg > 1976 is probably K25 Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento www.wildlightphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html