1980 kmart focal film- e6 or not?

TheGreatGasMaskMan

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I've found these two kmart slide films for sale at a reasonable price, but if they're not e6 I don't want them.
can anyone tell me if they are/ anyone know any interesting history about kmart films?
 

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MADE IN ITALY! so from our pals at Ferrania! (3M ferrania back then) proably past the time for regular slide film to have moved to E-6. 3M-Dyanachome was still a Kodachrome like process if it still existed then.

that film is processing included and so it could have been either process, the 3M lab would have known by their own markings.
 

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If you look at the 4th picture of the listing, you can read E-4 on the upper instruction paper.
 

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Ferrania cancelled production of their last films based on the Agfacolor principle in 1977. They started production of films on the Ektachrome principle even earlier.
But as indicated above Ektachrome does not necessarily mean E-6. But in any case a standardized E-process, as standardisation was the idea behind such changes at that time.

Two further years however Ferrania made the second step, by changing from E-4 to E-6.
 
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TheGreatGasMaskMan said:
I've found these two kmart slide films for sale at a reasonable price, but if they're not e6 I don't want them.
can anyone tell me if they are/ anyone know any interesting history about kmart films?View attachment 227345
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WOW! What a memory those boxes bring back!

KMart used to sell Ferrania/3M "by the yard", in long clear plastic sleeves.

It was very inexpensive too, but I can't remember the exact price; the major price difference being if the "yard" was comprised of 24 or 36 exposure rolls!
 

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Kino said:
KMart used to sell Ferrania/3M "by the yard", in long clear plastic sleeves.
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Selling film in "long clear plastic sleeves" would be counterproductive.
Maybe you mean the film came uncut, in such sleeves back from processing.
 

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AgX said:
Selling film in "long clear plastic sleeves" would be counterproductive.
Maybe you mean the film came uncut, in such sleeves back from processing.
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Or sleeves full of boxes of film.
 

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TheGreatGasMaskMan said:
I recently and successfully shot a 1980 expired ektachrome 400. I just can't show you the results because I just dropped it off for scanning.
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I don't doubt it. I developed 6 or 7 rolls of Provia F in Ektachrome (E1) chemistry that was right around 70 years old. Everything was in sealed metal cans, I ended up with Lomo like results, ISO was about 16. It was fun, I don't know where you could find formulas but if you are after something different these old formulas can be used with modern films.
I did my reversal exposure with a super bright LED flashlight, in the good old days we used photo floods.
Film and processing is so expensive these days, desperate times call for desperate measures
 
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