Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted: Do your children have no interest in your photos? What about your grandchildren? My old Kodachromes from the 50 are wonderful. Most of the Ecktachrome from the same era is unusable. When looking at these my son asks "Why didn't you use Kodachrome for all you pictures? E4 was advertised as being better, so was (is) E6, but is it really? I don't make any pretentions that my photo are great works of art, but then neither are many of the very old family photos I now have. The time for processing aren't usually important to me. To get decent chrome processing I have to send it away and it takes 10-14 days for either Kodachrome or E6. (A recent roll of 120 Provia took even longer) I suspect the Kodachromes will still be rather nice in 100 years. E6-??? Ken Wilcox At 1:50 -0800 2/6/0, a fine scholar, Ted Grant wrote: > >As long as they last until I go to the big darkroom in the sky I don't >think about how long the E6 slides will last. I've some old "ektachromes" >whatever they were from the '50's that still look interesting, certainly >not the snap like the films of today, but the image and content are still >OK. > >Besides, in reality guys and gals, are any of the pictures we shoot today >going to be of any "real importance" 70-100 years down the line? Maybe so >if you're shooting the world political scene and or other world interest >subjects. > >But I'm sure at that time, on average, nobody is going to give a hoop >whether it was E6 or kodachrome. > >Isn't it more important to have nice smashing images today than concerning >oneself with Kodachrome having a longer life span? just wondered. > >ted > >ted > >Ted Grant >This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. >http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>