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Re: [OM] Agfa chromes

Subject: Re: [OM] Agfa chromes
From: "tOM Trottier" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:26:28 -0400
Better scan and correct soon...

tOM

On Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 16:06
John Hudson <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Bill Pearce" <bspearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I, too, shot a lot of Agfachrome in the sixties and seventies, when it
> > was their proprietary process, CT18, I think. At that time, the only
> > alternatives were Kodachrome and Ektachrome X. I used some K25, but I
> didn't
> > like Kodachrome 64 much (too much magenta shift then, and now), and
> > Ektachrome X went really blue. The Agfa had a pleasing warmth, but not a
> > hint of red or magenta. It had to be mailed to Agfa, and they used the
> > dreaded paper mounts, but didn't scratch and water spot like Kodak.
> 
> The colour balance of my earliest K25 and K64 slides from the mid 1960s is
> as good today as it was when they were processed. I have some Agfa chromes
> from the same period  and the colour balance has shifted wildly towards
> magenta and blue and some have lost upwards of 800f their colour across
> the board. Some artificial light Ektachromes from the early 1970s are,
> like their K25 cousins, as good as they were when first processed. Leading
> the pack for loss of colour, colour shift and fading are a few remaining
> Perutz slides I have from the 1960s. All the slides have been stored in
> light proof containers away from dampness.
> 
> John Hudson
> 
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