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Opinion on selling reprint

Hello David John, I dont agree. You cant do more than eat and live well, with a little comfort, and family, etc. But come to think of it, I am sure, I have no price.........and I wouldn't sell my negatives or dias for anything in the world. HAPPY NEW YEAR all of you, and look after yourselves.
 
> Sadly I resurrected two old negs that I shot in the seventies. Beautiful prints were made at that time and lost. I just had them digtially reprinted and the results were very disappointing. Some sharpness seems to have been lost as well as color balance and saturation and 8x12's were grainier than I remember. Of course these were Kodacolor film from 1977 and 1979. I am sure today's fine films would preserve their already superior results much better and
 
> Hello all, a few words about picture preservation. I took a color picture (portrait) almost 40 years ago, in 1965, and I remember I had it printed by Kodak in Stockholm where I used to live then. I have kept it in a normal photo album, without any special precautions, and to this day there has been no fading and no color alteration and now I admire it as the first day, with all the appropriate skin tones. At that time Kodak processing was very expensive, but as time proved , well worth it. I do not know if a modern fast processing, especially digital paper, will yield the same durability in time. Best wishes for the new year Franco

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> Hello again, another case happened to me about picture preservation. It was a portrait of my grandfather in June 1970 where the picture itself has been great to these days. One year ago I was asked another print and because I had the original negative, I did another print, but with my disappointment the print from the negative, in order to preserve the skin tones, has shifted the gray of the clothes, to blue, and it looks a little bit funny. So, I did a reproduction from the print and this one looks much better. This in my experience tells that negatives are more susceptible to color shift. Please note that the negatives were kept protected from light in a proper container. This is my grain of salt Regards Franco

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> I have a Kodachrome slide of my father holding me in his arms at the beach in Connecticut at age 20 months. That would have been Summer of 1941. The slide is still indistinguishable from new with full color fidelity and saturation. Truly amazing! I am going to take some shots of my wife, self, sons and grandchildren on Kodachrome as soon as the weather improves. The resulting slides will be given to my sons for their grandchildren (oldest grandchild is six so that will be a long way in the future).
 
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