[PRCo] Re: Slide color

[Donald Galt]

On 30 Dec 2006 at 8:35, Bob Rathke wrote:

> I started taking slides with ASA10 Kodachome.  Kodachrome slides that I took 
> in the 1950's have held their color very well; I don't recall getting any 
> gray (colorless) slides on dreary days, but with a whopping speed of 10, I 
> probably didn't try to take many Kodachrome-10 photos on overcast days.
> 

I don't know what I was thinking before: I did in fact take a number of shots 
with Kodachrome 10. All of which, last I looked, had held up nicely.

For the same reason you state - speed - I occasionally used Ektachrome. Haven't 
looked at a lot of them recently, but I don't recall having noticed more than a 
couple of rolls gone green.

In New Zealand in the earliest 1960s, an incentive for using Ektachrome was 
that we had to send all our Kodachrome to Australia. It was a red-letter day 
when a processing lab was opened in (Christchurch, I think) in 1962 or so.

Don G