Some Old Kodak Kodachrome Slides

[Spymaster]

Haha!

Mate, this is fucking fascinating. I found/remembered a load of my old man's gear. Slides, in those boxes you used to get with individual slits for each frame. You can see the age of the contents buy the type of cardboard packaging which obviously changes from 50s to 80s

I've got about 700 in varying condition. What's interesting is that some of the really old stuff, like my mum in the 50s, is in way better shape than stuff from the 70s.

I'm genuinely chuffed about this. I've always though that 'one day' I'll pay someone to do that for me. But always forgot.

Thanks laptop

 

[ViolentPanda]

Haha!

Mate, this is fucking fascinating. I found/remembered a load of my old man's gear. Slides, in those boxes you used to get with individual slits for each frame. You can see the age of the contents buy the type of cardboard packaging which obviously changes from 50s to 80s

I've got about 700 in varying condition. What's interesting is that some of the really old stuff, like my mum in the 50s, is in way better shape than stuff from the 70s.

I'm genuinely chuffed about this. I've always though that 'one day' I'll pay someone to do that for me. But always forgot.

Thanks laptop

Not massively surprised the older stuff is in better nick, different and less complex emulsions, thicker film base etc. The (Kodachrome) slides of Greebo's parents' mid-60s wedding, that I digitised about 10 years ago, were fantastically colourful, whereas some (Fuji) slides I took of the mini-Mela in Streatham about 25 years ago had already started to fade when I digitised them at the same time.

Do yourself a big favour and get some up-to-date archival-quality storage, and your lad could well be showing those slides to his grandchildren in another 50 years.

 

[Spymaster]

Not massively surprised the older stuff is in better nick, different and less complex emulsions, thicker film base etc. The (Kodachrome) slides of Greebo's parents' mid-60s wedding, that I digitised about 10 years ago, were fantastically colourful, whereas some (Fuji) slides I took of the mini-Mela in Streatham about 25 years ago had already started to fade when I digitised them at the same time.

Do yourself a big favour and get some up-to-date archival-quality storage, and your lad could well be showing those slides to his grandchildren in another 50 years.

I will. But there's stuff here that hasn't been seen for donkeys years. Vulcans, Buccaneer's, a Shackleton. All of the best stuff is from the 50s and 60s I reckon. Watch this space!

I'm getting well into this