[Magdalen] Old photos

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 04:25:54 UTC 2015


I didn't do anything but prints--didn't have any way to show or share slides. And nothing but black and white until after I was married.
For awhile we used this company that packaged rolls of 35mm film like that used for actual movies. They processed it, and you got back slides and prints. They were gorgeous, but over time the prints all took on a ghastly pinkish hue. I haven't checked the slides in years--I think my daughter has them.

> On Apr 12, 2015, at 12:19 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 4/11/2015 10:50:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
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> I  was struck by the difference in quality between the color and black and 
> white  pictures; the color ones have all faded, while the black and white 
> ones could  have been taken yesterday.>>>
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> And yet 35mm slides from the same era remain clear with colors
> intact.
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> I used mostly during those years when I also was in Germany
> (1966-1970) the old Kodachrome 25, and toward the end of that
> period some Kodachrome X.  There was some Kodar Ektachrome
> as well.  Even the Agfachrome from those days seems intact.
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> I really must start dumping a lot of these.  They are not of  interest
> to my kids.  There are some family slides that I will keep.
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> I didn't do prints back in those days.  Sounds as though that may  have
> been a good idea.
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> 
> David Strang.
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