8mm Forum: Fading Prints - Eastman & Kodak SP

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Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on October 22, 2013, 02:28 AM:

Eastman prints tend to fade to pink. Kodak SP prints tend to fade to brown. Does anyone know why the difference?

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on October 22, 2013, 05:26 AM:

I do know that Kodak SP was intended to be an improved process to replace the old Eastman color. Kodak SP does, on average, hold up longer.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on October 22, 2013, 01:11 PM:

Very true Guy. However, curious enough, the earlier Kodak SP tends to hold up better than the later Kodak SP. I've also found that to be true of the Eastman film stock.

I don't know why, but I've noted that my earliest Eastman stock optical prints still tend to have most of they're color. Early 80's Eastman stock opticals have tended to go completely pink rather quick. The same is true with the Kodak SP. Apparantly, the optical super 8 producer, knowing that the optical super prints were only designed for a "short shelf life" used whatever super 8 stock was the cheapest, (as a general rule) and probably put in as short of a processing time as possible.

... which is quite sad, as, the image quality they got on those optical prints was second to none, but the film stock tends to royally screw them!

Posted by David Guest (Member # 2791) on October 26, 2013, 08:14 AM:

best to stick with black and white

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