Bill, I've seen the same here with my Dad's stuff. Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.
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