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KODACHROMES LOVE THE SE 5400!
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. |
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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 |
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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 1970 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1035/...ba0ac97116.jpg and this is after a bit of tweaking in the scanning software http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1403/...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. |
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On 2007-11-03 02:30:06 -0700, "N" said:
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 1970 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1035/...ba0ac97116.jpg and this is after a bit of tweaking in the scanning software http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1403/...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. were they all Kodachrome? It allegedly has much better archival quality than other emulsions, especially the old 25 ASA stuff. -- Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. |
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"D.Quatsch" wrote in message
news:2007110303324816807%presquevu@coxnet... On 2007-11-03 02:30:06 -0700, "N" said: 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 1970 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1035/...ba0ac97116.jpg and this is after a bit of tweaking in the scanning software http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1403/...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. were they all Kodachrome? It allegedly has much better archival quality than other emulsions, especially the old 25 ASA stuff. All 200 slides (except for the bought ones) I was given to scan are in cardboard Kodachrome mounts. I have a large number of slides of my own, some of which are in Kodachrome mounts, some in Agfa mounts and some in unbranded mounts. |
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On Nov 3, 10:27 am, "Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote:
"N" & "D.Quatsch" ... This is a slide purchased in about 1970 ... http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1035/...ba0ac97116.jpg ... and this is after a bit of tweaking in the scanning software ... http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1403/...750b433e02.jpg .. were they all Kodachrome? It allegedly has much better archival quality .. than other emulsions, especially the old 25 ASA stuff. . All 200 slides (except for the bought ones) I was given to scan are in . cardboard Kodachrome mounts. 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. Kodachrome is a "Schrödinger's cat" of a film: it can still be good only if nobody looks at it. -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Metershttp://www.darkroomautomation.com/index.htm n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com Some great info there Nicholas. I've never researched Kodachrome; I had no idea it was that old. Helen |
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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 |
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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... |
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"N" & "D.Quatsch"
... This is a slide purchased in about 1970 ... http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1035/...ba0ac97116.jpg ... and this is after a bit of tweaking in the scanning software ... http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1403/...750b433e02.jpg .. were they all Kodachrome? It allegedly has much better archival quality .. than other emulsions, especially the old 25 ASA stuff. . All 200 slides (except for the bought ones) I was given to scan are in . cardboard Kodachrome mounts. 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. Kodachrome is a "Schrödinger's cat" of a film: it can still be good only if nobody looks at it. -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters http://www.darkroomautomation.com/index.htm n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com |
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