My Dad shot a lot of Anscochrome (sic) when we were kids back in the 50's
& 60's. They are now almost a tan monochromatic. I had them all scanned but
it took a lot of Photoshop time to turn them into reasonable images.
Fortunately he mostly shot Kodachrome.
Charlie
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I shot a lot of Agfachrome when I was stationed in Ehtiopia in the early
> 1970s. It didn't take but a few years for the color shift to begin. If I
> could find them, they'd likely look like black and whites now.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On May 9, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Walters, Martin wrote:
>
> > "The worst for colour loss and colour distortion......Perutz and
> > Agfacolor slides."
> >
> > Have to agree. I've been slowly looking at my parents' holiday slides
> > from the late 50s and early 60s. All the Kodachromes seem to be fine.
> > The others in the plastic holders - and I know my Dad used both Perutz
> > and Agfa at that time - show a marked colour shift. Each time I'm back
> > in the UK I bring a batch home to scan. Generally I do OK is correcting
> > the colour. Sometimes not, and then I just convert to B&W.
>
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