Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/18

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Subject: [Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 16:08:09 +0930
References: <BANLkTinoKahGDb+twTU_yytEewN_RGzB9w@mail.gmail.com> <C9FA1CA8.EE1B%mark@rabinergroup.com>

The vast majority of the short-term failures are because of poor
processing.  It's a hundred or more years out that the differences
between well processed silver and chromogenic films start to show.
Wilhelm did a good set of accelerated fading tests.

Marty

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> I have XP2 negs that old and I'll bet I can still get a perfect print off
> them. As well as thousands of regular color color negs.
> Mark
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> Mark William Rabiner
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>> From: Dennis Kushner <dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:48:40 -0400
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.
>>
>> According to Ilford, XP2 negs good for 15 years. I have some first
>> generation XP2
>> over 20 years & the negs still look OK.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 18 May 2011 Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> People who have left their darkrooms behind have no apologies to make. 
>>>> And
>>>> I'm one of them.
>>>
>>>> Mark
>>> =============================================================
>>> And people who use film should have no apologies to make, either.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
>>> UPAA POY 1978
>>> University Information Technology Services
>>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>>> amr3 at uwm.edu
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.)
In reply to: Message from dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com (Dennis Kushner) ([Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.)