"gold" DVD's. . .some manufacturers go so far as to say "100 year storage media," which is probably hoakum... I'll say. If you read the fine print, all they promise is to give you your three bucks

Ed - Sorry, I was on the Pelham Line. It took a transfer to get to the Stadium. And some places in between you didn't ride your bike through. - Al Westerfield

Tim - Many years ago we had a fire in our house that damaged quite a number of carousels worth of slides. Scorch, water and ash damage. I unmounted them, washed them and remounted them. Results

Papa John Phillips wrote: "And how long do you figure the CDs you're burning these monsters onto last? R.W. Leach has been kind enough to scan and burn a couple (!) of my prints onto CDs (he makes

Although very expensive just a couple of years ago, archival quality cds and dvds are now being used by museums such as the one in Kennesaw and others interested in preserving scans of photos of steam

They were stored in Kodak carousels in their original boxes. I have to assume that dust got on the slides when there were projected. The carousels were certainly not left out. Al was a printer by

Jack Slide trays? I have carousels (which I do not use for storage) but those come in cardboard boxes. How could dust get into a closed box? Or were the trays just left out in the open? I mean, if

Can slides be washed? I know some prints can be washed with distilled water, but can you wash the slides or negatives? There are some highly rated scanner programs with "Digital Ice" that remove

Does Blue Ray have any better time frame? I know the density is higher. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member #2623 Member

It seems to me that I ran across some information decades ago that indicated that the Ma&Pa had some 34' or 36' CB&Q truss rod wood frame boxcars. How they acquired them I never followed up on but I

Note that Al Rose's slides which were damaged by dust in the emulsion were all Kodakchrome. Possibly if he had dusted the slide trays regularly, he won't have had any damage over time. I sure that it

Jack Burgess wrote: Jack is exactly right about this. We see it all the time in photos submitted for books. Many people have stored their "favorite" slides in Kodak trays, and the dust seems to

Phillips, III, J.A. wrote: No one could argue with a five-year replacement rule (though some Imations I had went south in less time than that), but they are cheap and easy to dupe. Keep in mind,

Brian Ehni wrote: Ah, I love these tired old chestnuts. Brian, speak to any archivist: Ektachrome which is properly stored is fine. It does react more strongly to misuse, but is NOT inherently

Brian, engage brain before typing. I wrote that degraded film is the only film that needs to be scanned for the purpose of preserving (i.e. archiving) the information. I have thousands of slides, and

Andy Miller wrote: "But its track plan is different (although it could be earlier or later than the plan we first saw), and the building is shown a circular not elliptical." No dice, Andy. You

Really? When was the last time you looked at an Ektachrome that still retained all of its colors and hadn't shifted to red? How about old celluloid movie film that cracks or turns sour? Brian Ehni

Tim wrote: I have about 2500 photos of the YV and am in the process of scanning all of them. But my reasons may be different from others. First, I want to be able to share the photos with other YV