Is there any information available from Fuji regarding the
materials, chemicals, used in their Crystal Archival color photographic
paper?
Steve Shapiro, Carmel, CA
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 7:06
AM
Subject: Salted Paper/Selenium
Followup
This is for the mysterious R.M. (who gave no full name or
return address) and for Richard Knoppow from Steve Puglia via
myself:
Thanks for forwarding the comments from these two list
members. I am not an Alt-Photo-Proc list member and have only looked
at the list a few times when searches indicated topics I was looking for
were discussed. With everything else going on, I have not had time to keep
up with all the available list-serves on topics that are of
interest.
Richard Knoppow's comments answered many of the
questions from R.M., and I would agree with Richard that the single most
important thing for preserving any photograph is to provide proper storage.
The standards group feels the protective treatments are added
protection and confer some benefit in situations where you can not control
the storage environment, but if the storage temperature and humidity are
controlled to the recommended conditions, then the protective treatments
are not necessary.
Although you are not able to reply to R.M., my
stay at the Library of Congress proved to be relatively brief. I am
back at the National Archives. I still deal with various issues
relating to the preservation of photographs and the duplication of historic
negatives, but most of the time I am dealing with digital imaging (the hot
topic these days for many photographers and for libraries, museums, and
archives). I do a lot of scanning for our exhibits, including for the
production of exhibit prints, for publication, for producing facsimiles,
and for web use. I am still on the standards committees, but now I am
chair of the subcommittee dealing with the stability of color photographs
(of course we are trying to deal with all the digital hard copy processes
like inkjets).
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