Kodachrome - Totally dead?

StoneNYC · Jan 1, 2014

bvy said:
Kodachrome discussions are now off-topic for APUG. Please refer to our newly found sister site, KPUG, to discuss Kodachrome. A one-year subscription (required) is $500, and all proceeds will go toward funding its resurrection. This thread will now be closed.

Haha awesome... There's 20 subscribers already... You should make that a monthly subscription (to get the ball rolling).

baachitraka · Jan 1, 2014

Just curious, how difficult to create a instant positive paper(like polaroid) using Kodachrome technologies...

RattyMouse · Jan 1, 2014

bvy said:
Kodachrome discussions are now off-topic for APUG. Please refer to our newly found sister site, KPUG, to discuss Kodachrome. A one-year subscription (required) is $500, and all proceeds will go toward funding its resurrection. This thread will now be closed.

Well that was very funny. I guess this 30 page thread was worth SOMETHING after all.

Photo Engineer · Jan 1, 2014

baachitraka said:
Just curious, how difficult to create a instant positive paper(like polaroid) using Kodachrome technologies...

BTDT. It was called Ektaflex R. There was a negative version called Ektaflex C.

It was not like Kodachrome. It used different chemistry with dyes that diffused. However, a print material for Kodachrome using the exact same chemistry as the original Kodachrome existed right from the introduction of Kodachrome film. It was only processed by Kodak and was called Kotavachrome. It was on a plastic support and ceased being made at about the time that K12 came out. It could not use the new method involving 3 re-exposures.

As for DPUG, good idea, but there would probably never be more than about 50 members!

PE

PaulDK · Jan 1, 2014

Happy New Year everyone.

Here's a video about the last roll of K, shot by Steve McCurry.
[video=youtube_share;DUL6MBVKVLI]http://youtu.be/DUL6MBVKVLI[/video]

Let us all look at this last roll and say thanks for your time among us. We will all have you in our minds as we move forward.

PaulDK · Jan 1, 2014

By the way, I was looking at some of the old Apollo 11 images, and I'm a bit curious about what type of film SO-368 is? Is that Kodachrome, Ektachrome or a special produced filmtype by Nasa?

Prof_Pixel · Jan 1, 2014

so-368, kodak ektachrome ms, estar thin base

PaulDK · Jan 1, 2014

Prof_Pixel said:
so-368, kodak ektachrome ms, estar thin base

Thanks

Photo Engineer · Jan 1, 2014

And NASA never "produced" a film.

PE

PaulDK · Jan 1, 2014

Photo Engineer said:
And NASA never "produced" a film.

PE

Well, I just thought since they had to make all kinds of specialized things for the apollo program, perhaps they could have made some film.

Photo Engineer · Jan 1, 2014

Paul, they didn't build a Hasselblad either!

No, it takes a multi million dollar plant to make film, and once made it is difficult to modify if not nearly impossible. NASA commissioned Kodak to make several products to their order.

PE

lxdude · Jan 1, 2014

Prof_Pixel said:
so-368, kodak ektachrome ms, estar thin base

Was that custom for NASA? Also, what was the color balance, being outside the scattering effects of the atmosphere?

cowanw · Jan 1, 2014

It's a good thing Paul Simon never wrote a song about Autochrome, else we could go on about that.

Prof_Pixel · Jan 1, 2014

lxdude said:
Was that custom for NASA? Also, what was the color balance, being outside the scattering effects of the atmosphere?

This page http://www.taphilo.com/Photo/kodakfilmnumxref.shtml says "SO-368
Kodak Ektachrome equivalent to 2448 Kodak Aerochrome, thin base, fine grain, high resolution, E-6"

See also http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750013526_1975013526.pdf for a NASA test on a modified SO-368

BrianShaw · Jan 1, 2014

cowanw said:
It's a good thing Paul Simon never wrote a song about Autochrome, else we could go on about that.

Oh no... is Autochrome dead too?

StoneNYC · Jan 1, 2014

BrianShaw said:
Oh no... is Autochrome dead too?

What's an Auto Chrome? Is that like a Delorian but in chrome instead of stainless steel?

Kc2edh · Jan 1, 2014

BrianShaw said:
Oh no... is Autochrome dead too?

As long as you can still grow potatoes, you're good to go for Autochrome!

Steve Smith · Jan 2, 2014

StoneNYC said:
What's an Auto Chrome? Is that like a Delorian but in chrome instead of stainless steel?

Yes. And it can only go forwards in time at a rate of sixty seconds per minute.

If you want to go back in time to get your Kodachrome processed, you need the original stainless steel version and a flux capacitor.

Steve.

Truzi · Jan 2, 2014

Kc2edh said:
As long as you can still grow potatoes, you're good to go for Autochrome!

I can't grow potatoes, nor can I grow radishes. I try, but am very bad at gardening. Maybe this year I'll do better. Oddly, I can get a few tomatoes and peppers, which are not as fool-proof as radishes.

removed account4 · Jan 2, 2014

Kc2edh said:
As long as you can still grow potatoes, you're good to go for Autochrome!

sigh

if it was only as easy as that

les frères lumière ont été dieux

PaulDK · Jan 2, 2014

Photo Engineer said:
Paul, they didn't build a Hasselblad either!

No, it takes a multi million dollar plant to make film, and once made it is difficult to modify if not nearly impossible. NASA commissioned Kodak to make several products to their order.

PE

LOL, I know they didn't build a Hasselblad

benjiboy · Jan 2, 2014

Kodachrome is as dead as a dodo, and all the wishful thinking, hair tearing, chest beating, and moaning isn't going to bring it back, so get over it.

Photo Engineer · Jan 2, 2014

Here is a poll question!

How many of those posting here bought one or more rolls of Kodachrome in the year before it was cancelled. (Dan, you don't count! )

PE

Rolfe Tessem · Jan 2, 2014

I haven't posted here but I have an embarrassing large number of Kodachrome rolls in my freezer.

For the purposes of argument, consider large to be more than 50 but less than 200 .

ambaker · Jan 2, 2014

I bought, shot, and had Kodachrome processed in the year before the announcement.

I do realize it is not coming back.

I am over it.

But I do like to reminisce.

If by some miracle, or bad business decision, it was brought back, I would buy some.

I would be just as much, maybe more, enthused if an E-6 film came to market that mimicked Kodachrome's response. It isn't the name I miss, it's the look.

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