Any successful attempts at developing Kodachrome at home?

[Dimas]

Hello everyone!
I was wondering if anyone knows how to develop Kodachrome, or if there is anyone who still offers this service? Have there been any successful attempts recently?
I'd also love to hear if anyone could share some DIY methods or home-brewed recipes to process it.


Thanks!

 

[thinkbrown]

It's perfectly doable, it's just not worth it. The entire process is fickle and complex and there hasn't been film made for the process in about 20 years.

Haist lays out virtually the entire process in volume two of Modern Photographic Processing, page 556. It's a 17 step process including washings. You can also reference US patent 3658525

 

[koraks]

I was wondering if anyone knows how to develop Kodachrome, or if there is anyone who still offers this service?

AFAIk there's one guy in Australia who worked out a process, then ran it for a brief while and ultimately bailed out because...well, probably too time-consuming. I don't think he ever offered it as a commercial service or intended to.

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

Check the work of Adrian Cousins here. He has had some success with Kodachrome.

 

[koraks]

Future Kodachrome Colour Developing

Has anyone experimented with kodak Vision 3 stock in a film camera? (or any other ECN2 type stock for that matter?)

www.photrio.com

This might be of interest. Kodak Z-50. Not really something that would be very usable to recreate a K14 process from as it's mostly focused at operators running a working K-LAB setup using supplied chemistry etc. Some process parameters can be gleaned from it, though.

IDK if this is also listed at the Facebook page as it's inaccessible to non-FB users (which is me).

 

[retina_restoration]

Why would you bother?

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

Can't help with FB page, but Adrian Cousins used to post here and hopefully can read OP and respond: @adycousins