P3D Re: Fungus and other issues

["John Goodman" <jgood@xxxxxxxx>]

Bob Maxey wrote:

> The problem could be that Kodak did not process the slides. Are they in
> Kodak mounts? As for fissures (please explain further) - they could be
> damage caused after processing.

Very apt questions. Unfortunately, the slides are not ready 
to hand, but it is likely that the affected ones were not 
processed by Kodak. The bulk of the collection are in 
Kodak paper mounts with the date embossed, but some 
are in red-bordered mounts lacking a date stamp.

I can appreciate how even a flurry of specks could be 
made to disappear, but some of the damage I saw looked 
irreparable, covering wide areas (not symmetrically on 
both chips), seeming to obliterate a significant portion of 
the image (no observable image details within the clear 
green intrusions), from the borders of the mount inward 
(these random, essentially clear, light blue-green frond-like 
effusions). Also, in many cases, the shots are not worthy 
of extreme efforts to restore.   :-)

JG