Don't bury Medium Format yet !

[P3D Smith <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <Sam>]

John B Wrote:
>Speaking of films, I talked to a Kodak rep at a recent trade 
>show and medium format Kodachrome is indeed gone.  I guess I'm 
>the last to know.  This makes me a whole lot less interested 
>in medium format stereo since the archival properties of E-6 
>do not appear to be anywhere near as good.  It's a real shame 
>since medium format 3D is where the resolution is at.  Besides, 
>it's an easy format to work in; mounting is easy when you have 
>images you can see even without a magnifier.  It's also an 
>easier format to design a wide angle viewer for.
> 
>John B

OH NO, JOHN DON'T GO !!! Medium format 3d is the Ultimate format to many
Stereographers, don't give up on it merely because you can't get Kodachrome.
I personally believe the permanence of Kodachrome has been a little
exagerrated anyway, and the fact of the matter is that NO color slide film
comes close to the stability of conventional black and white materials. Even
if Kodachrome was more archival than other color slide films, it is still
suseptible to heat, humidity, light, gases, fingerprints and a million other
nasties. Even the slide mounts, adhesives and storage containers most people
use for their slides are rarely to museum standards. You would have to
freeze your slides in the dark forever to attain something close to archival
stability, so to me you're better off taking just a few precautions and get
back to the enjoyment of taking stereo photographs ! 
So pick that medium format camera back out of the garbage John, and try a
roll of Black and White film through it! ( It wasn't a Sputnik was it ? )

Sam
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