Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, not all film is archival- far from it, in fact. Back iin the 50's my father took many, many, pictures on colour slide film, He used Agfacolour, Ektachrome, Kodachrome, Orwocolor, and a couple of other makes that not longer exist. These were carefully stored in metal slide boxes and projected only occasionally. The camera was a Contax IIIa (its metal shutter was better suited to tropical conditions that the Leica's), not that it matters. I am sure that members of this list will not be surprised to learn that virtuallly alll have faded, except for the Kodachromes. It is for this reason that I have never used any E-6 emulsions; the short-term advantages are simply not worth the loss of images in the long term. List members singing the praises of Fuji or Kodak E-6 emulsions need to be aware of this fact. > Whatever else, at least at the present, film is the archival medium. You > cannot put your CD or DVD away for 75 years, not tend to it much, and expect > that it will be easy to use at that time. Standards will change, get much > much better, and legacy equipment is likely to become scarcer. Film and > prints sit there in the cool, dry, dark and don't do much. For my purposes, > which is developing an archive of images, film (Kodachrome) is still the > preferred way. > > I realize this may be a small minority concern. > SNIP - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html