Dying Transparencies

[rogleale]

Following the news that Kodachrome film was now dead I decided to take a break from digital pics, pixels, etc, and I started to look through some of the Kodachrome pictures I took in Malaya during the sixties. Unfortunately, years of being packed away, and transported around four continents has not been kind to them, and many are completely eaten by fungi. I've started to try and save some but it is not easy. Very few are free of fungus, and some of the colours are peculiar, but some are convertible to b & w even if absolute sharpness has been eroded away. Just a few as examples from what, in retrospect, seem to have been happier times.

A street musician for the Thaipusam festival:



A penitent being loaded with his Kavadi:



A working family:



Moored Trawlers:



Trawlers:



Roger

[Ian]

Re: Dying Transparencies

Hi Roger, my father took many hundreds of slides in the 60s and 70s all around the far east, but has now lost interest in photography. I do have some of his old half frame slides and hope they are still in reasonable condition.

Ian

[rogleale]

Re: Dying Transparencies

I hope that he has stored them better than I did Ian! Some of mine are still projectable I think, in spite of the colour shifts, but scanning them is very difficult so I plan to try photographing them all over again. They would have stored better I suppose if they hadn't been taken, and kept, in the tropical humidity.

Roger