----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: Kodachrome processing: Ambiguous press release
> > It's probably been a decade since Kodachrome was popular enough to > justify its existence from a business standpoint. I suspect it's a > hard-cord group of traditionalists within Kodak that have kept > Kodachrome going for so many years. Kodachrome has some unique properties that make it very desirable. It has incredible resistance to heat damage, and is still the only viable colour product if you need archival stability. It's dark storage life is measured in centuries, though it will fade relatively quickly if projected. I suspect that National Geographic has been single handedly keeping Kodachrome alive for some time now. I know that Kodak was trying to drop it at least a dozen years ago, and bowed to their pressure to keep it going at that time. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
