[PRCo] Re: Slide color

[Fred Schneider]

Color dyes were also a problem for Kodak in the earliest years with  
Kodachrome but so few people used it that very few examples are  
around to show just how badly the earliest Kodachrome transparencies  
faded.   I have seen some movies taken on it in 1936 which were a  
disaster.

However, by the late 1930s the problems were solved.   I have some  
slides here that my father took of me as an infant in 1940 that still  
have gorgeous color.   And Jim Shuman and John Seibert, both of  
Lancaster, were taking color slides of electric subjects as early as  
1940-1941.   I know Jim's first attempt used a single roll of 828  
Kodachrome in the camera he borrowed from Johnny.   He took them on  
the fantrip on the Indiana Railroad using cars 376 and 58 between  
Indianapolis, New Castle, Fort Wayne, "Pee-ru", and back to  
Indianapolis.   Those slides are still beautiful.   I think Frank  
Butts and Eugene Van Deusen were into color before the war too.




On Dec 31, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Donald Galt wrote:

> 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
>
>