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Osi Osgood
Film God
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 29, 2017 02:18 PM
It's obviously not, (low fade, that is). Even when you still have Kodak SP today that still looks as good as when it was printed, it WILL fade, sooner or later.
I hope that the color is at least pristine on you're print you recived. If so, most definitely, store it wisely. I would ask for at least a partial refund as, if a person is selling something as low fade, it is thier duty to be sure that it is low fade, (and not just believe the film can or box label), as, let's face it, you bid on it because ou were assured low fade. Partial or half refund to be sure. Fortunately, as buyer, you can pursue this on ebay rather easily.
Any Kodak SP's I have immediately go into cold storage, just to maintain that lovely color that they presently have.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 30, 2017 11:08 AM
It all depends on who printed the film and why, as to whether low fade film stock was used after 1980. For instance, even after low fade L.P.P. was introduced, super 8 optical film features were still printed on, quite frankly, as a general rule, the cheapest stock available. After all, they were only going to be used for the short term, a few months tops and then destroyed. I has seen super 8 ooptical features, all the way up to 1986 that were most definitely printed on Kodak SP.
I'm sure that there were no doubt other super 8 companies that used whatever was available for less, as long as they could.
We can all be quite thankful that the U.K. (and elsewhere overseas), tended to use low fade as much as possible, which is why you can still get low fade WDHM digests and shorts from the late 70's until they stopped producing them.
That can not as easily be said for U.S. super 8 producers, sadly ...
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