P3D Re: P3D Archival qualities of prints vs. slides

[George Gioumousis <georggms@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Davis wrote
> 
> 
> This talk about the historical value of view collections, and in
> particular of the durability of stereo cards vs. slides vs. digital
> images is making me wonder about the relative durability of prints
> vs. slides.  Does anyone have info on that?  I assume it would depend
> at least on the photographic paper used, and possibly on the chemicals
> as well.
> 
I think I have read that slides beat color negatives, and that what
used to be called Cibachrome prints beat ordinary color prints.
_However_, a carefully processed black and white negative is said
to be good for a thousand years, so three color separations are
the way to go for long lasting color.

When our children were young, I felt that their little smiles 
deserved to last forever on film, so I shot a roll of black
and white every third or fourth time. Later on, after we had 
four of them, I used black and white out of poverty. The black
and white stereo slides actually look pretty good.

My slightly younger sister, who habitually carried her slide
rule, a 35 mm camera, and a tripod in her large purse, complained
that she never got advanced enough for black and white 
photography.


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