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RE: Happy 2017 Winter Solstice!
- To: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>, Flora E <http://www.vermont.gov/~flora.>, Flora E <http://profiles.yahoo.com/Flora>, Flora E <http://www.gmail.com/~flora>
- Subject: RE: Happy 2017 Winter Solstice!
- From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 07:30:16 -0800 (PST)
- User-agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11)
On Thu, 21 Dec 2017, Robert wrote:
> > From: ", Flora" <http://www.vermont.gov/~Flora.>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:57:16 +0000
> >
> > You are right in suggesting the slides be digitized. Slides degrade over
> > time
> > and may no longer be able to be viewable in the future.
>
> Well, digital media also degrades. You constantly need to keep
> transferring it to keep it alive.
actually, Kodachrome retains the color very well. I was looking at my
friend's mother's slides of Mt. Holyoke College in the 1950s and it was
astonishing how good they looked.
However, the Ektachrome slides she had were totally unviewable