P3D Re: Kodachrome life (PHOTO-3D digest 3482)

[Dan Wenz <djwenz@xxxxxxxx>]

John Goodman wrote:

> May very well be the case...  I was imagining a purely
> chemical reason, since what I saw was always the same
> cyan color, and there was no evidence of spores, dust,
> smell, or moisture marks. If living creatures are
> responsible, they must have a narrow appetite for a
> particular dye or something within the film layers. The
> damage seems to be confined to certain rolls, so I
> guessed that something wasn't quite right with the
> chemistry, or that the paper of those particular mounts or
> the box they were stored in was a contributing factor. This
> was a fairly rare phenomenon with the slides I viewed,
> thank goodness.

Those "blotches" were the reason I put a dehumidifier in the room I
store my films in - been many years, but I think I first noticed them on
my 8mm 1950's movies. It's quit humid here in the Baltimore, MD area.