On 23/02/2013 8:40 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
That doesn't look faded in the least. I guess its true. Kodachrome
lasts forever. I never liked the color personally though. The
highlight retention always surprises me in film after looking at
digital for so long now. Cool shot btw.
Kodachrome has excellent dark storage stability, but terrible fading
problems when exposed to bright light. Kodachromes that were projected a
lot had a habit of fading. IIRC, Henry Wilhelm was able to measure
fading in Kodachrome after as little as an hour of projection.
Ektachrome, OTOH, had much better behaviour when projected, but some had
terrible dark storage. My father was an avid slide film shooter, but not
a great photographer. Perhaps he thought that projecting them bigger
made them better, I don't know. He made us sit through interminable
boring slide shows.
But I digress.
The point of this, if I can ever find it....
When we cleaned out my parent's house in 2002, I came across my dad's
slides, and went through them. All of the Kodachromes were in good
shape, only showing what I would consider projection fading. A lot of
the Ektachromes, however, had faded completely clear, and everything
from when he started shooting Ektachrome in the early 60s was showing
pretty severe fading. All the slides I was paying attention to were from
the mid 1950s to the late 1960s.
bill
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