Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Lawlor wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:38:04 -0800 From: "Bill Lawlor" <wvl@infinex.com> Subject: [Leica] Re: 'chrome stability Message-ID: <001301c16ef7$bd86f380$b11d5142@BILL> References: <200111160614.WAA27112@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Some boxes of old slides were passed to me recently by a relative. They were in dirty yellow boxes "stored in the garage". All were Kodachromes and Ektachromes taken by my father from 1958 through 1972. The Kodachromes are stunning! The 1958-64 version of that film is awesome. <snip> The Ektachrome slides are less true to the originals, faded, and in a few instances severly discolored toward yellow. Some Ektachromes are good enough to project and many can be cleaned up in Photoshop. Those in Kodak processing mounts are in much better condition than slides in independent lab mounts. <snip> <end quote> My experience with old 'chromes largely matches Bill's with a few exceptions: the images are my own, dating back to 1952; the majority of slides processed by unknown labs, i.e., not mounted in Kodak frames, have fungus spots; and all the Kodachromes I shot in India in 1988 have a green tint. I'm guessing that the green shift was caused by carrying the films in my backpack for several weeks in climatic conditions that included very high heat and humidity (monsoon season). The chromes I shot in North-West Pakistan on the same trip were not so affected. Trying to correct the green shift in PS6 will be an annual winter project... BTW my wife recently found some of my negatives (her method of storing photographs is more casual than mine) which turned out to be from the early days of chromogenic b&w. The Ilford XPs are in decent shape for scanning. The corresponding Agfa films have decayed rather badly. Oliver Bryk - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html