Re: longevity and accuracy of scan charts
Re: longevity and accuracy of scan charts
- Subject: Re: longevity and accuracy of scan charts
- From: email@hidden (Anthony Sanna)
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 15:08:32 -0500
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If you take care to minimize exposure to excessive light intensities or
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duration's, you should easily get a year or more of first-grade use out of
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a Fujichrome HCT, even with heavy use.
I'm about to put away my HCT after its initial use, and was going to
store it along with my other archived film - in the freezer.
Normally, film intended for storage goes into Print Files, which are then
organized into industrial Zip-Loks with the air squeezed out. These in
turn are filed in Pelican cases and frozen. Unexposed sheet film, bought
in batches, also gets deep-sixed in smaller Pelicans (I used to use Army
surplus ammo cans). The only exception is Portra, which, Kodak warns,
should not be frozen.
With this method, of course, you don't quite have instant access to the
film. I'll give the case a half-a-day at room temp before I'll crack
open the Pelican. The advantage, though, is that my Ektacolor negs
dating back to the late '60's seem virtually unchanged, and are probably
more printable now, due to technology, than they were back then.
So I would assume that giving the cryogenic treatment to my HCT should
keep it data-stable for a much longer period of time. I'll just move
Elvis to the side a bit, and I'm sure I can find room.
Tony
Anthony R. Sanna
Vice-President
SACO Foods, Inc.
6120 University Avenue
Middleton, Wisconsin 53562 USA
email@hidden
www.sacofoods.com
1-800-373-7226
(608) 238-9101
(608) 238-8149 - fax
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