Old 5247 slides

[Jeremy]

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"chuck" <cciafNOSPAMfone@earthlinNOSPAMk.net> wrote in message
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> BTW - do you know whether "commercial" processors can
> process 5247?? I don't even know whether Dale Labs
> exists anymore.
>

Dale Labs has moved to Hollywood. FLORIDA, and is booming! [url]www.dalelabs.com[/url]

They can probably repring your negs, as they were in the vanguard offering
Eastmancolor emulsions. They still offer slides, prints & negs from color
print film, and they claim to have a much improved slide stock, but I'm
sticking with prints. Properly stored, prints will outlast that slide stock
that is used to produce slides from negs, anyday.

Signature Labs also did 5247, but I don't know if they're still around. I
haven't seen 5247 offered by any lab in at least 10 years--for all I know,
Eastman has replaced it with a newer emulsion. I think the Eastmancolor fad
has reached an end. Great idea, terrible archival qualities, though.

[Michael Scarpitti]

chuck <cciaffone@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<f8GOa.90207$Io.7839412@newsread2.prod.itd.ea rthlink.net>...

> I've been busily scanning all our old slides from the 1960's
> and 70's. The Kodachrome and Ektachrome have largely
> held up well, but the 5247 (from when I was really,
> really poor) has done badly. They seem to have faded, and
> color-shifted to the point they look almost like old
> sepia prints.
>
> Any suggestions for what to tweak on the scanner to at
> least partially recover?? (I am playing with the brightness
> and tone controls, but it's mostly hit or miss.)
>
> chuck

We tried and tried and tried to tell you..


Go back and take 'em on Kodachrome!