Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Provia 100F or K64?
From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:13:22 -0800

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


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