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The Passing of E-6

Brian of Arizona Wrote: Sep 01, 2010 2:14 PM

I have a little less than a thousand of those Kodak slides, stored in hot places over the years and dating back to the 40's and 50's. I've transferred a number of them to jpg and they still look great. No fading, no color shift. Had to rinse the dust off, though.

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The Passing of E-6

Most people have no idea what "E-6" is. To avid baseball fans, E-6 is the way to record an error by a shortstop on your scorecard. But there is another E-6, in photography. This E-6 is the developer in which color slides are processed.

Recently, I received an e-mail from Chromatics, a photo lab used by professional photographers in Nashville, that they will be discontinuing the developing of color slides and color transparencies in general, after September 9th. This was sent to me as an old customer of theirs.

The passing of E-6 is the passing of an era, because it means...

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