[PRCo] Re: Slide color

[Bob Rathke]

The earliest Kodachrome-10 slides I have were taken in 1954, and the colors 
are still vivid, especially the reds.

My uncle used Kodachrome-10 slide film in the late 1940's, and the color is 
still good.  He also shot a few rolls of 8mm movie film in 1946, and I 
assume it was Kodachrome - the color is also still good, but the focus is 
soft - probably caused by a very simple movie camera.

Bob 12/31/06

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 6:22 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Slide color


> 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
>>
>>
>
>