Originally posted by Swift1 I've often wondered how developed color negative film hold up over time.
I thought I'd toss this quick and dirty scan into the mix. I have a lot of negatives that have not had any particularly careful storage, and they all seem to have held up OK. Faded prints are more of an issue.
This is a colour negative of some 116 Safety Film I scanned a year ago in Vuescan using default settings, no post processing on this so you can see the dust and scratches.
This was shot in the spring of 1972, on my grandfathers Kodak Autographic 1A Junior when I took a photography class in junior high school, professionally developed through Super S Drug Mart, which would have sent it to an unknown lab.
Just an interesting curiosity.