Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think today's current E6 emulsions are far more "archival" than the earlier films such as E4 etc. dan c. At 03:06 AM 19-06-03 -0400, A. Lal 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. > > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html