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Re: [OM] the end game

Subject: Re: [OM] the end game
From: "Ian M. Stewart" <ims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:21:37 +0000
At 20:41 16/03/98 GMT, Frank van Lindert wrote:

>How will different media deteriorate with time?
>
>All my estimates are -very- rough.
>Paper, also paper pictures, will live for a century, maybe two, at
>least
>Color and b/w negatives will have roughly the same lifetime, maybe
>longer.

I have read somewhere that the standard colour print process is only good
for 30 years, prints _and_ negatives.  Trannies are better, but does anyone
know how much?  Anyway colour does not have the life expectancy of the old
B & W as you may expect. :-(

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Ian  <IMS>
                  OM Tyro - please point my lens in the right direction.
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