ARCHITECTURE UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE

This is what happens when you do "bad" things involving Kodachrome film and Kodak HC-110. ;-) Speaking of Kodachrome, I found this excerpt from an essay on the history of Kodachrome both interesting and relevant. It is a bit long, but worth reading and thinking about.

Excerpt taken from: Kodachrome - The American invention of our world 1939-1959.

But even more important in terms of this book, from 1939 onward Kodachrome has had good dark-storage image permanence combined with total freedom from yellowish stain formation over time. The overall image stability of current Process K-14 Kodachrome film is better than any color film ever made. Laboratory tests have shown that the least stable image dye - yellow - will fade only about 20 percent in 185 years when stored in the dark at 75 degrees F and 40 percent RH.

However, the Kodacolor negative and print process introduced in 1942 had such poor permanence that not a single Kodacolor print from 1942 to the mid-1950's has survived in anything other than a faded yellow-orange stained ghost of the original. Kodak Ektachrome transparency film did not fare much better in the the early years following its debut in 1946. Only the Kodachrome images from the 1940s and '50s remain today in largely unfaded condition, which has made this book possible. When one is lucky enough to encounter a Kodachrome transparency in a historical collection, it is like finding a brilliantly colored gem from the distant past. The sadly faded and stained Ektachrome, Agfachrome, and Anscochrome transparencies from the period all pale by comparison.

From the beginning of the color era, it was Kodak's intent to convert as much of the market as possible from black-and-white photography to more profitable color films and prints. Unfortunately the permanence of displayed color prints, with images composed of organic dyes, was no match for the exceptional stability of fiber-base black-and-white prints, whose silver images remain essentially unaffected by even prolonged exposure to light. Although Kodak was long aware of the superior image permanence of Kodachrome - and the relatively poor stability of its other color films - the company kept it a closely guarded secret until the mid-1970s. Kodak felt if it provided image-permanence data for Kodachrome - its most stable color film - photographers would ask how other color products such as Kodacolor negatives and prints, and user-processable Ektachrome transparency films compared. And that was something the company did not want to reveal. Ansco, Agfa, Fuji, Konica, and other manufacturers followed Kodak's example in maintaining silence on the subject of color-film permanence.

These photographic manufacturers understood that amateur photographers would in time become the largest market for color films and papers. All transparency films have limited exposure latitude; for satisfactory results, cameras with adjustable shutter speeds and lens apertures, in the hands of fairly dedicated photographers, must be used. In the days prior to the fairly recent availability of automated, electronically controlled cameras, the requirement for precise exposure meant that Kodachrome and other transparency films would not be used in amateur fixed-exposure, roll-film box cameras. These were the mass-market cameras of the time, and only the wide exposure latitude of negative films, and the density and color corrections made during printing, allowed for their wide use and popularity.

Kodak's color-permanency secrecy policy remain in effect for more than 40 years, with far-reaching ramifications. For example, because the company could not advertise improvements in image stability, there was little incentive to produce more stable color films and papers. Had photographers in the 1940s and '50s been aware of the superior performance of Kodachrome film, many would have continued using it instead of changing to much less stable color materials. In addition, the market for Kodachrome would have grown, which would have spurred research and development on more advanced Kodachrome films. Furthermore, Kodak would have been motivated to improve the permanence of its other materials, especially color motion-picture films and 16mm Ektachrome news films.

When Kodak replaced large-format Kodachrome sheet films in the early 1950s with Ektachrome sheet films, photographers were unaware that the new films faded in the dark at least 20 times faster than the discontinued Kodachrome. The unfortunate results of this product downgrading can be seen in the severely faded period Ektachromes in institutional collections, such as those at Life (AOL Time Warner Inc., in New York), Vogue, Corbis, (including the Bettman Archive), the Library of Congress, George Eastman House, and individual collections all over the world.

Kodak's silence about image permanence had another tragic result: unaware of how rapidly specific types of color film and print materials w

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