Projection is one of the things I miss about film. I used to project my kodachrome 64 slides to great effect. Today no 16 MP digital projectors are even available let alone affordable. A nice ektagraphic slide projector was only a few hundred bucks. The other benefit was shooting slides was cheaper than prints...
----------------- J.C.O'Connell [email protected] ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 11:15 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: 1975 Kodachrome 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
