Re: I am an amateur, to cry out loud!!!!

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>If you use E-6 film, or
>don't bother to store your film as well as you reasonably can, you cheat
>them of that too.  And even if you want your kids to sell your photos to
>the 21st Century Dr. T, if they're magenta, he won't pay them much.  So
>any way you look at it, you ought to care.  

My Fujichrome slides from 1988 stored in shoe boxes are doing great so far
with vivid colors and not a hint of fading.  That's all I care about!
If they go on like that, maintaining a reasonable color for the next 50 
years, I'll be happy.  That's all I want.  But even if they fade sloooowly
I would not mind.  Only if they fade overnight I'd be upset.  But it
appears that this is not going to happen if the first 10 years are any
indication.

But I do not take these pictures for my grandchildren and don't feel I am 
cheating anyone!  The reference to selling them was in contrast to throwing
them away.  Why should they  make money from my hard work?  Let them take 
their own pictures!  I only care for as long as I am around.  Selfish?  
Maybe... but true!

Realistically speaking, today's E6 films fair much better than the first E6
films and the future with digital photography will bring a solution to
saving the E6 work for those who care.  Those who don't care (apparently
the majority) do not need to worry in the first place.

>Thank god many stereophotographers in the 50s used Kodachrome and kept 
>their photos in nice air conditioned dark closets.  If they didn't what 
>would you be buying?

Got any good Kodacrhomes to sell??? ;)  

Yes, I am happy that those people used Kodachrome.  But how do the people 
who actually took those pictures feel about their relatives selling their 
memories for next to nothing?  I bet they are turning around in their 
graves as we speak!  Are they happy that Dr. T gets good colors?  I don't
think so! ;)

Should I use Kodachrome so that I make happy some clever Dr. T of the late
21st century who finds my slides in a flea market for a bargain price?

The more I hear about Kodachrome's wonderful ever lasting life, the more
determined I get to never try it!

I know this is an extreme position I am taking here.  I am happy with my
Fujichrome and, by reading various accounts, I have faith that it will last
for my lifetime.  If I regret it many years from now... well add another 
mistake to my misearable life.  But, for some reason, I don't see people 
worried about their faded color prints from high school.  I dare say that
some of these faded pictures are actually appealing! There is something to 
fading pictures that is compatible with a fading memory... Go figure!

-- George Themelis


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