P3D Re: Archival storage pages - New & Improved version

[Duncan Waldron <J.Waldron@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Paul Talbot wrote:

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> ***For those not familiar with the frosted back of the archival pages,
> it has an interesting effect.  I don't know what the technical term
> for the effect is, but here is what you see:  you can lay the page
> on top of printed text, for example, a newspaper, and read the text
> just fine through the page.  However, if you lift the storage page
> up about 1 inch (2-3 cm) above the newspaper, the text becomes
> very blurred and unreadable.  By about 5-6 inches (say, 10-15 cm)
> above the newspaper, you can barely distinguish the black printing
> from the white background.  Thus, when holding a page of slides
> up to a light source, everything behind the page, including the
> light source, is blurred so as not to greatly interfere with
> viewing your images.

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I'd just call it diffusion.

Duncan W


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