Digital BW, The Print

>Now *I*, on the other hand, have Kodachrome slides and BW negatives 
>my father took over 60 years ago!!    They have been sitting around 
>in attics and drawers all this time and NOBODY had to do ANYTHING to 
>update them.   Yet I can pop them into my Nikon Coolscan and read 
>them like they were taken yesterday.
>
Taken yesterday??
My father was a professional photographer about 50 years ago. His 
filmrolls were typically stored in drawers, each roll wrapped in paper. 
I tried to scan some of them on my Nikon 4000ED. I also tried to scan 
some slides with snapshots from when I was a kid - I am now 42. Those 
were typically stored in the pouches that came from the lab. All scan 
results were simple horrible. All the slides from the family trips I 
made with my parent are all fading fast up to the point of being 
completely useless. And I am not even mentioning the hundreds of 
photographs were I can't find a single negative from.
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Hans Van Rafelghem
http://www.vanrafelghem.com