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Why slides?

Bob Wier wrote:
>I wonder why slide projectors were so
>popular to begin with, as opposed to prints. Perhaps color prints >in reasonable sizes were prohibitively expensive as compared to a slide. >But I can't really remember. I *do* remember that my folks almost always >took slides (even in 2D) as opposed to doing prints... 

I may be misremembering my photographic history, but I'm pretty sure that this is because the first consumer-product color film was Kodachrome, and the technology for color negatives came much later. People took slides because that was the only way they could get color pictures. 

---------------------------------------- Morris M. Keesan -- keesan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 


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