The obit thread was a little before we hit the tent, but was during the "evacuation phase" while I was trying to move 5,000 square feet of house+garage+garden sheds into the rental storage sheds. While I tried to check in and catch up periodically during that phase - until the phone/DSL disconnect on 1 July - I guess I missed that one.

Although I tried a few rolls of Kodachrome, most of my film shots were with other films. I note that the article cites Kodachrome as "holding the color" quite well, and perhaps I should have used it more, as my few remaining slides (mostly from the mid '60s) are pretty much "dirty smudges" now. Negatives have generally faded badly. Prints made over the years have nearly all been scanned to digital, and the prints shredded to get rid of the mildew - and to recover storage space.

A few old negatives that I've had reprinted don't equal the color quality of the original (aged) old prints. Apparently the negatives fade faster than the prints. and the individual colors fade at different rates. Digital color correction/restore works miracles (if you ignore the "automatic" corrections built into the programs) or a lot of the prints wouldn't have been worth saving.

John