Thread: Fading Memories
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Old November 11th 16, 01:18 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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On 11/11/2016 5:42 @wiz, android wrote:
FYI: Colour negs from the seventies are fading badly now and slides are
fading too. Even Kodachrome. If you want to preserve your pictures then
the time to start scanning is now.



My Kodachromes from the early 60s are still as good as back then.
But they have not been projected a lot. Scanned, yes. A coupla times.

The Agfa CT18 and CT200 slides from the 80s are ruined. Scanned them
just in time!

The Fujichrome slides from the 80s are fine. The Ektachrome slides from
the early 80s are starting to fade but have now been safely scanned.

Colour negatives, the ones with plastic(?) base, are reasonable and
being scanned. The ones with celluloid(?) are a total mess now...

The scans are kept in 16-bit colour tiff files, 3 copies in 3 different
2Tb USB disks.

I'm actually surprised most of the film has survived so well!

Now, to take care of the VHS and S-VHS tapes...