Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1454

[P3D Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

|RE:Why were slides so popular vs prints to my parents? Bob Wier! 

|With prints having 96% of the market (I read they sell more 110 print film than all slide film..and 110 is obsolete!), it is hard to realize what a "dream" a color paper was before WW2. Before Kodacolor in 1946 arrived (which faded badly in first issue), there was no way to make a 


Aha - that's interesting! I'm not *quite* old enough to remember when color prints were first introduced - but in the late 50's I did a LOT of B&W darkroom work. I eventually moved into color printing with the CP-5 process (Formaldahyde (sp?) still reminds me of those years). 

I guess there was a bit of an interta effect so that even when color prints were perfected at a reasonable cost, a lot of people already had projection equipment, so they continued along thoses lines... 

THANKS!

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