[filmscanners] RE: Modern photography...

["Laurie Solomon" <Laurie@advancenet.net>]

All films independent of type will get mold if stored under the right
conditions.  It is not the dye versus the silver that attracts it but the
gelatin base of the emulsions that mold and fungus grow on and eat.

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> My comment is based on the stability of  silver versus dye.
> Is B&W more likely to get mold versus color transparency or negatives?
>
> Tony Sleep wrote:
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> > wrote:
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> >
> >>There is nothing like B&W negatives for longevity.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You think? I'm scanning negs from 20-30 years ago before
> it's too late.
> >
> >
> <snip>
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> >
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