I didn't realize the ektachromes would fade that much. I have seem ones that were still in ok shape, but were certainly more recent than the 50s. To fade perfectly clear is pretty awful. Sorry to hear that actually.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Bill <[email protected]> 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 > [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.
