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Until I was banged on the head in my Buenos Aires, my city of birth, and most of my Pentax equipment was stolen I swore by them. The insurance paid for new cameras and I switched to Nikon F-3s and FM-2s. But I still conserve a Pentax MX so I can use its superb 20mm rectlinear wide angle that the robbers missed in Argentina. Alas! The even better 15mm was not missed.
Alexwh

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We are doing the same thing–slowly but surely having all our old film digitized and posting them on flickr.

I have actually noticed that some of our old negatives are starting to show age which makes me very happy we’ve started the process.

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Perhaps you technical wizards can expound here a bit on the permanence (as in archival) of images stored in flickr. I have read in Popular Photography that while DVDs can store more pictures CDs are a tad less unstable.

B+w negatives that were originally fixed in fresh fixer and properly washed will be archival for at least a couple of centuries. Kodachromes aren’t too bad if kept away from humidity. But anybody who shot colour negative (and b+w chromogenic film ) are into an unpleasant surprise. The negatives (like all motion picture film) are highly unstable as are the C prints or colour prints from colour negatives.
Alexwh

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Darren,

Paper has its problems, too. Sometime in the late 70s they introduced a photographic paper that instead of being paper based it was plastic based. They were easy to wash and dried very quickly. The glossy version of this paper was (and is) really glossy. The most popular is Ilford’s Ilfospeed. Most of us who used this stuff for reproduction in magazines and newspapers never really bothered to wash them properly as reports at the time told us that these would fade in time,no matter what. While this was not the case I would like to show you here what an Ilford Ilfospeed print (one I had stored in a dark space for many years) looks like. I would describe it as beautiful on its way to a final fadout!The one in question will be obvious.
Alexwh

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