You have kept your old photos of cars stashed away in a shoebox in the top of your special closet. One day you decide to get them down and relive the good old days. Why are the black/white ones fine but the color ones are all fading? Here is the answer... http://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/photographs.html http://genealogy.about.com/library/authors/ucmishkin5a.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography