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>>201835 Then we shall agree to disagree? I like digital formats but you'll always need something to read them, or have to transfer them whenever you get a new computer, and of course if you have an idiot using said computer the data can be lost in a crash or accidentally deleted. As I said, what I love about slides is that they're a physical image, and only need your eyeballs to read them.
Seriously, I didn't mean to come off as an ass and apologize if that's how it sounded. I just consider long-term image preservation to be an important part of my job.
"Kodachrome slides over fifty years old still retain accurate color and grain. It has been calculated that the least stable color, yellow, suffers a 20% loss in 180 years. This is mostly attributable to the fact that Kodachromes have no unused color couplers remaining after processing, unlike other color slides. However, Kodachrome color stability under bright light, i.e., projection, is quite inferior to E-6 process slide films (mentioned below), at least in actual still film" - The permanence and care of color photographs. Wilhelm Imaging Research http://www.wilhelm-research.com/pdf/HW_Book_05_of_20_HiRes_v1a.pdf
So Kodachrome is perfect for archiving, just not the best at using in an actual slide projector.
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