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Re: [OM] Re: new OM model

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: new OM model
From: *- DORIS FANG -* <sfsttj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:06:53 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Ingemar Uvhagen wrote:

> Doris,
> As I said on another thread: Excellent post! (Again.)

  Thank you for the kind words. It is too easy to get carried away with
the romance of technology and forget the real world.

> > Those prints (if they use the new Fuji Crystal process)
> > will have a lifespan of over 50 years.
> 
> Negative film and Crystal process, right? How about negative film and
> normal process? How long will they last?

  Much shorter. For a thorough read on this go to a search engine and
input Henry Wilhelm (god, I hope I got that right). He is the world
eminence on the archival aspects of films & prints. 

> And slides, is there a Crystal
> process to slides as well? If so, how long are they expected to last?

  If there is, I haven't seen it announced. It is odd that the images our
grandfathers made will be around long after the ones of our own
generation! I commend Fuji for working on bringing this technology to the
public, so that their family images will last at least the duration of a
human lifespan. I often will shoot portraits or weddings (which I only do
informally, and for friends) in both color & b&w, and
process the latter archivally, so that the images will be visible to the
great-grandchildren. For slides, I shoot Kodachrome, both because I love
it, and for its long life.  

> Well, that was five questions in a minute!

  The answers took 5...:-)

                                   *= Doris Fang =*



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