Amen bro....
-----Original Message----- >From: "J.C. O'Connell" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: 1975 Kodachrome > >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 >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.
