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KODACHROMES LOVE THE SE 5400!
On Nov 3, 1:39 pm, Michael wrote:
On 2007-11-03 02:15:25 -0400, said: On Nov 3, 1:28 am, Annika1980 wrote: I was scanning a few old slides for a friend tonight and thought this one was particularly cool. Mr. C calls it simply, "The Drug Store." http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/88326548/original That Kodachrome slide was taken 60 years ago. Let's hope our digital images hold up as well. I'll wager not. I love these old pics. They bring you back in time, although this is WAY before my time! It's amazing how the color and condition of the slide has held up for so many years. Tell Mr. C. nice pic! Helen What's so good about this picture is that even without the interest of its age and being brought back in time, it's just a good picture and would have been thought so they day the photographer got it back in the box from Kodak. -- Michael I agree! |
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On Nov 3, 1:39 pm, Michael wrote:
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/88326548/original What's so good about this picture is that even without the interest of its age and being brought back in time, it's just a good picture and would have been thought so they day the photographer got it back in the box from Kodak. -- I agree, although I think it is enhanced with the passage of time. A similar pic taken today of a guy walking in front of a Walgreen's wouldn't hold the same meaning today, but might in another 60 years. Perhaps I should have displayed the pic a bit larger so you could more easily see the kid coming out the door with an ice cream cone in his hand. |
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On Nov 4, 3:37 am, Michael wrote:
On 2007-11-03 09:48:31 -0400, said: On Nov 4, 12:27 am, "Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote: Kodachrome fades quickly if projected. Storage conditions need to be reasonable for Kodachrome to do well. Very early Kodachromes (30's - 40's) do fade to a brown-magenta. Yes, but correct me with references, but you have to do a fair amount of projecting - either in a single session or in many projections - before you cause a problem. Most slides were/are projected very infrequently, and then only for very short periods. So Kodachrome was not recommended for commercial or educational-type use, where the images might be projected for lengthy periods, or very frequently. Kodachrome is a "Schrödinger's cat" of a film: it can still be good only if nobody looks at it. I like your analogy, but.. there are other ways to view slides that do not involve the 'stress' of projection. Most lightboxes/viewers/ scanners have quite gentle light/heat/UV/IR output. I have multitudes of old K25s (well, 10-30 years) and I don't hesitate to get them out and look/project. No noticeable fading, although I do have a few *very* old K25's handed down by my parents and there are a few faded ones amongst those - but they are more like 40-50 years old and would have been very rarely projected... The old 16mm Kodachrome movies handed down to me are still as richly colorful as they were at the beginning. Of course they are projected only about once every ten years. -- Michael I have seen the wilhelm testing that says the Fujichromes can stand about 5 hours and the Kodachromes about 1 hour before they drop below whatever benchmark they set. Neither figure is particularly good, but when you think about it, how often/long do you project a slide for (not counting slides specifically for presentation)? An hour is a very long time, even spread over many years, for very best work and taking into account inflated egos... (O: Anyone doing presentations should be using duplicates (or digital!). |
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ps.com... On Nov 3, 5:30 am, "N" wrote: wrote in message ups.com... I love these old pics. They bring you back in time, although this is WAY before my time! It's amazing how the color and condition of the slide has held up for so many years. Tell Mr. C. nice pic! Helen Helen, they don't all survive well, but scanning software can do good things: This is a slide purchased in about 1970http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1035/1390789072_ba0ac97116.jpg and this is after a bit of tweaking in the scanning softwarehttp://farm2.static.flickr.com/1403/1389366562_750b433e02.jpg This slide was one of about a dozen commercial slides in a batch of 200 I was given to scan. I found the private slides had survived better than the commercial ones. I'm guessing the private slides survived better because they weren't viewed on a projector as much as the commercial ones were. Scanning software is amazing. Thanks for the illustration. Helen There would have been no difference between the viewing and storage frequencies and methods of both types. I was given them in a nice carrying case, which I had to clean as it had a thin layer of foam in its base which had disintegrated. My slides from my trip to New Zealand in 1973 are also a mix of personal and bought slides, but in my case the bought slides have survived quite well. This is three 1973 slides of Lake Matheson joined: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/...0d55c891_b.jpg Of course they taken hand held, hence the angle, with a Kodak Instamatic something or other at a time when creating a pano of shots was completely unknown to me. If you search Flickr for Lake Matheson http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=lake+matheson you'll see the place has barely changed. |
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"Annika1980" wrote in message s.com... I was scanning a few old slides for a friend tonight and thought this one was particularly cool. Mr. C calls it simply, "The Drug Store." http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/88326548/original That Kodachrome slide was taken 60 years ago. Let's hope our digital images hold up as well. I'll wager not. Is that a Minolta Scan Dual? I'm wondering about the Plustek 7200, if its any good. Seems a little slow with IR enabled, but cheap. Cheers |
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"Martin Riddle" wrote in message newsSaXi.426$It.242@trndny06... Is that a Minolta Scan Dual? I'm wondering about the Plustek 7200, if its any good. Seems a little slow with IR enabled, but cheap. Cheers Mine is a Plustek 7200i. My slides weren't worth spending big bucks on a scanner. |
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On Nov 3, 10:18 pm, "Martin Riddle" wrote:
Is that a Minolta Scan Dual? Yes. It produces excellent quality 5400 dpi slides, but is noisy, clunky, and terribly slow, expecially when used with the Silverfast software. |
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"Michael" wrote in message news:2007110411330575249-adunc79617@mypacksnet... On 2007-11-03 18:05:50 -0400, said: snip I have seen the wilhelm testing that says the Fujichromes can stand about 5 hours and the Kodachromes about 1 hour before they drop below whatever benchmark they set. Neither figure is particularly good, but when you think about it, how often/long do you project a slide for (not counting slides specifically for presentation)? An hour is a very long time, even spread over many years, for very best work and taking into account inflated egos... (O: Anyone doing presentations should be using duplicates (or digital!). And movies went at 16 frames per second (18 for super 8) which, accounting for times the shutter was closed, means you could project a movie more than 16 times before you'd accrue one second of projection time for any given frame. Multiply that out and you'd be at nearly sicty thousand showings for 16mm and 8mm and sixty-five thousand showings for super 8 before you hit an hour of projection time. Most of us did not/do not watch old home movies quite that much. -- Michael I won't debate your math-- mainly because I'm too lazy!. But the issue with movie film is the physical stress the film is subjected to in projection. Each frame is 'yanked' into position to the projection stage, the shutter opens to project it, the shutter closes, the next frame is yanked into position. I would submit that the sprocket holes would be worn out long before the film shows signs of fading. With slides, any physical abuse would be on the slide mounts rather than the film itself. |
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