Kodak announced it will not make Ektachrome slide film which was not 
archival anyway. It was convenient because most labs could process them.

While they are not going to make carousel projectors they are still making 
Kodachrome slides which are considered to be as near archival as any color 
format has yet become. I have some of my fathers which are quite clear and 
only slightly distorted in color which are 65 years old, stored in acid 
boxes and acid mounts.

The Archivist are concerned about what technology will be available to read 
CDs in the future as we migrate from one generation of scanners and 
computers to another.

Black and white negatives have a 100+ year history, Kodachrome 
transparencies over 65. Even if the labs do not print from the slides, you 
can scan the image.

Most ink jets do not use archival inks, but most photo labs use photographic 
paper which will yellow from its plastic stock in 20-30 years. Epson and a 
few do make some printers with archival color inks, but they are not the 
cheap models.

Don't throw out your slides!!!

Mary Kirby
independent scholar/free lance photographer/archivist
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: No Negative


> Lynne,
>
> Kodak announced last year that they are no longer making slide projectors;
> they intend to stop producing slide film very soon. So, yes, way of the
> dinosaur I'm afraid. Most photo places find making inter-negatives very
> inefficient with a severe loss in image quality.  Digitization is the mode
> of the day. Consider making hard copies from a scan. I've found the 
> quality
> to be quite good.
>
> Michelle
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf
> Of Lynne
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:57 AM
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> Subject: No Negative
>
>  A resident who lived in our town in the late 1920's sent us some original
> photos of his still-standing historic house here. He asked that they be
> returned after copying them. I scanned them at a high resolution and saved
> them to a CD. In light of the ongoing debates about digitizing images and
> ever-changing technology, however, I also took them to two photo shops in
> town and asked that negatives be made of them -- so we always have 
> something
>
> in hand. I was startled when both places said they don't make negatives
> anymore and that they just scan the images too. They did note, though, 
> that
> if I brought the CD to them, they could print the images with whatever
> technology they have that produces longer-lasting images than those from 
> our
>
> ink-jet printer.
>    Is this true everywhere? Are negatives now unavailable and useless? We
> have many negatives in our collection already and I foresee having to jump
> in and start digitizing those images. Is this true of slides, too?
>    Thanks!
> Lynne
>
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