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Topic: How QUICKLY can color fade settle in?
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 08, 2008 09:57 AM
I just recently aqquired a scope print of Ben Hur, which has color fade. The seller said it looked fine some months ago when he watched it, and I have no reason to really doubt him.
My question is, how quickly can color fade come into the picture?
Have any of you guys actually ran into prints that, literally, right before your eyes, actually faded over a period of months?
I must admit that I saw a print fade over a few mere days!
This was in extreme conditions.
I had an already partially faded print of "Close Encounters" (Columbia Digest), that was in terrible shape, and so I chose toss it out in the dumpster outside.
This was a summer of three weeks of over 100 degrees, (dry heat, in Mountain Home, Idaho, is it any wonder I keep my films refridgerated, eh?)
I was tossing out some trash a mere week after I tossed out the film. Some of it slipped out of the dumpster on the ground, so, curious, I put it up to the light to look at it ....
... and now, there was NO COLOR at all. It was a light pink mess. It wasn't a print that I had any care for anymore, of course, but I was struck at how quickly it went, but then, it was baking in the constant sun for about 14 hours of the day for a week.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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