Chronic-Yonic :flag_lesbian: on Nostr: Like any poster or copy left close to a sunny window, your prints, posters, etc will ...
Like any poster or copy left close to a sunny window, your prints, posters, etc will fade via infrared and UV light contained in sunshine, this is not a digital versus analog photo thing. Even ordinary, old style photo printing on photographic paper will fade, given time.
UV and infrared lights are the guilty ones. I even went to lengths of making sure the glass (or plexiglas) in the frame was against UV and infrared but sunshine still does damage. Now when the sun goes up, I shut the curtains till the sun turns the corner.
There are pros and cons for each type of photograph. When looking up these things, you have to be careful of the date the articles were written because each year, digital cameras and the processing of digital photos leap light-years ahead of what they were one year before. This can be explained via the image processor used and quality of lens and their technology. Same as in a computer, the latest generation of chips used for image processors is way better than the previous one.
Maybe plastifying your prints this might help? I seem to recall I had done that to one of my prints to test it in daylight and it lasted longer. But it was a long time ago. Also, inkjet printers are notorious though for fading, laser prints are tougher and last longer, as long as you use a heavy-duty thick paper specially formulated for colour laser printers.
UV and infrared lights are the guilty ones. I even went to lengths of making sure the glass (or plexiglas) in the frame was against UV and infrared but sunshine still does damage. Now when the sun goes up, I shut the curtains till the sun turns the corner.
There are pros and cons for each type of photograph. When looking up these things, you have to be careful of the date the articles were written because each year, digital cameras and the processing of digital photos leap light-years ahead of what they were one year before. This can be explained via the image processor used and quality of lens and their technology. Same as in a computer, the latest generation of chips used for image processors is way better than the previous one.
Maybe plastifying your prints this might help? I seem to recall I had done that to one of my prints to test it in daylight and it lasted longer. But it was a long time ago. Also, inkjet printers are notorious though for fading, laser prints are tougher and last longer, as long as you use a heavy-duty thick paper specially formulated for colour laser printers.