Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There was a lot of talk in the 1970's that the Ektachrome was more stable than earlier versions. I used Ektachrome 50 almost exclusively then for scientific photography (macrophototgraphy and photomicrography), and the slides still look pretty good. The base of Kodachrome left a yellowish/greenish tint. Needless to say, the Kodachromes I took are still archivally yellowish/greenish. :-) Jeffery At 03:06 AM 6/19/2003 -0400, you wrote: >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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html