Re: Archival Quality...

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Walton writes:

>(2) Encourage current stereographers to do at least a little bit of 
>their work in Black & White or Cibachrome.  With the current 
>technology these are the only two processes that offer any sort of 
>archival quality..
>There is going to be awful slim pickings in the future when folks 
>start looking for and collecting "Realist Era" stereography, due to 
>the fact there are so few folks working in these two processes and 
>stereo slides made in that time frame will have long faded into a 
>shadow.

I hope those who rely on Kodachrome are taking notes here... :)

What kind of time frame are you talking about?   Kodachromes from
the 50s are still going strong and, the way things look, they will
be going strong for at least 50 years from now.  Fading into a 
shadow, 400 years from now is a rather long way to to go...
By that time (or even much earlier), most of us would agree that 
digital technology will come to the rescue.

Many of the B&W views that I collect look in a bad shape already...
(almost faded into a shadow, some of them).  Where does that fit
into your theory?

Also, this seems to only be an issue for histrorians and collectors...
How does this affect me, a person who enjoys taking and viewing stereo 
pictures TODAY?  Should I shoot B&W so I can made the 2100 era 
collectors happy???

-- George Themelis


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