[muglo] photo preservation

Thanks for the link, Leith. There are certainly obvious measures that
can be taken to extend images' life ? don't hang 'em on a sunlit wall
or store 'em in your laundry room, etc. ? but a lot of the time it
seems to be pure random chance. I used to shoot slides exclusively, and
seal the best of them between glass in Leitz frames. Now, 40 years
later, some of those slides have developed tiny red mould spots and I'm
having to copy them digitally and retouch them on the computer. On the
other hand, I've got a few family snapshots made four and five
generations ago, obviously on cheap cameras with mass-market-quality
photofinishing (possibly Kodak's original mail-in service, or the
then-equivalent of modern drugstore finishing) and the images show no
signs of deterioration after a century or more.
It's a crapshoot.

>  Doug:  Here's some information on photo preservation from the
> Canadian Heritage site: 
> http://www.preservation.gc.ca/howto/articles/photos_e.asp 
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