Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Hans Van
Rafelghem <hvr@a...> wrote:

> 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.

What kind of film were they?

Kodachrome is a totally different process from the E4 and E6 films
that came along later, and is far more stable.     And the bw film was
all silver emulsion - that stuff is good for a century or more.