----- Original Message ----- From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Pentax List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 7:45 AM Subject: Faded Memories
> Having just looked through a couple of photo albums containing color > snaps from 1980-81, I was dismayed to see how badly faded many of the > pictures were. Some were shifted to brown, some to purple, and some > looked just great. These photos were all handled and stored in the same > manner, and rarely exposed to light. Why would some fade and others > not? Ah yes, the truth about keeping pictures in a box under the bed finally is known...... Some papers from that era were destined to self destruct, it's a failure of the manufacturer. Agfa had some real problems with their colour paper self destructing. Batch to batch variations were pretty big, and they were always trying new formulations of either emulsion or chemistry. The technology of colour negative photography was still pretty young. Of course, there is also processing variables to take into account. However, not as great as one would think. There were no minilabs back then, and quality control was given more of a budget. Of the teo wholesale labs I worked for during that time, both had a full time quality control team, who were responsible for making sure all aspects of the processing and printing was done to specification. Minilabs now mostly just pay lip service to quality control, but the materials have improved greatly for stability. I suspect that most of the improvements in material will be negated by the minilab industry itself. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
