Cool photo Paul, and I recognize the site! Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > Here's a 1978 Ektachorme that has largely resisted fading although it was > stored in the dark. I should add that some of the Ektachromes that I shot > with my Brownie Starflash in the fifties have faded a lot. This shot was > taken for J Walter Thompson, and it was probably my first paid photo > assignment that wasn't part of a journalism job. I used my Vivitar 20mm 3.5, > which wasn't very sharp, but I probably had it stopped way down in back. > That's my undergrad alma mater, Roosevelt University in the background. > Brooksie spent some time there as well. It's in Adler and Sullivan's late > 19th century Auditorium Hotel building. The building next door -- I think > it's called the Fine Arts Building -- is even older. Back then it housed the > Studebaker Theater and a coffee shop on the lower level frequented by > students and the artsy set. The race car is a jet powered dragster with some > nice body work by an aluminum craftsman named Lee Austin. > > I suspect Ektachromes formula changed over the years. I think all of mine > from the seventies are in good shape. (I know the processing chemicals > changed in the mid seventies from E4 to E6.) Gamma Labs on the west end of > downtown Chicago processed all of mine. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16963163&size=lg > -- > 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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