You lost me right there.I'm just not motivated to do the testing. I want someone else to perfect it so I can use it.
If I saw results that looked really promising (like you are describing...but I still haven't seen) I might be inclined to agree. Frankly the process sounds like a PIA than its worth given the results I've seen. And don't get me wrong they aren't bad, PE has posted a pretty good one but they just aren't enough to get me super excited about it. The majority that I've seen are "off". But I agree there is potential there, anfd I encourage others to get to work making improvements that I can later use.
As someone who has extensively explored Ra-4 reversal I have learned the process doesn't need improvements.
The process is plagued with high contrast and crossover. Have you solved those problems?
In my family's case, a Kodachrome slide with my mother in it.What's a Shirley style transparency?
Read my earlier posts here. I feel I'm starting to sound like a broken record! Yes I have solved the problems with this process. The process can actually be high contrast ...it an also be very very low contrast. you just need to experiment and the process can be anything you want it to be. It can also be low saturation in colour or high saturation. Every problem people have mentioned with this process I have solved. The process is flawless to me. I began testing in 2010 when ilfochrome was killed off. Being a commercial analog Ilfochrome printer I went in search for an analog alternative and l have deeply delved into this method. I have repeated myself multiple times on the properties of this process so this is my last post about it in this thread. lets return to the focus of this thread which is Kodachrome colour applications. Any further commercial inquiries regarding Ra-4 reversal please Private message me.
I had read your posts. You could say it ten times but just saying "I have solved all the problems" and "it needs no further improvements" is like saying, "My low-temp C-41 process gets perfect results, trust me", as some have. Even if it is so, you should still expect there to be those who question it considering the known problems with it.
View attachment 155254 I had much more success today.., but by the looks of things I overdid the red re exposure and possibly the blue re exposure, leaving nothing for the magenta developer to actually develop. I can see the first hints of green in the grass, so maybe the yellow developer did work a little. I really have no clue haha. What does anyone think I should do to get more yellow and magenta in my image? Maybe reduce red and blue re exposure times and extend yellow and magenta times?
View attachment 155254 I had much more success today.., but by the looks of things I overdid the red re exposure and possibly the blue re exposure, leaving nothing for the magenta developer to actually develop. I can see the first hints of green in the grass, so maybe the yellow developer did work a little. I really have no clue haha. What does anyone think I should do to get more yellow and magenta in my image? Maybe reduce red and blue re exposure times and extend yellow and magenta times?
Hi Joachim,
(semi OT) just curious - where do you get the color couplers? I would like to try chromogenic dev of BW and the Rockland Polytoner seems quite difficult to obtain.
thanks!
"Hi Joachim,
(semi OT) just curious - where do you get the color couplers? I would like to try chromogenic dev of BW and the Rockland Polytoner seems quite difficult to obtain.
thanks!"
I've got a silly question: Let's suppose someone actually manages to get all those fantastic colors we all remember Kodachrome had. Then what?
It's not like you can just go out and start buying rolls of Kodachrome. There's only a limited amount out there, and absolutely NONE of it is still 'unexpired'. I'd venture to say that the bulk of unexposed Kodachrome that still exists today is sprinkled liberally in the landfills of the world.
Sure, someone may have a goodly stash in their freezer, but the bigger issue is that the actual film that demands this process is and will remain unreplenished. So once (and only IF) the Holy Grail of K-14 processing is resurrected, there'll be a veritable orgy of rolls developed, and then....................
...................it will be all over.
Please people enough. Most of the posts on this and other Kodachrome threads are so much blather. I can say this since I am probably one of very few people who have actually seen the processing equipment and who once applied to supervise and maintain it. The complexity and size of the machine was impressive. We don't need speculation. We don't need proof of concept experiments. Everything that needs to be known is already documented in fine detail. The bitter truth which so many refuse to accept is that the processing machines no longer exist. Long ago sold for scrap. Due to the complexity of the process modern processors can't handle Kodachrome. Given the continually shrinking market for slide film no one, let me repeat NO ONE is going to invest to build a processor or make film.
As one colonial to another, and a lifetime user of Kodak COLOUR films, I resemble that!One other note. Kodachrome was invented and maintained by Kodak as a COLOR film not a COLOUR film. I hope those of you using the Queens English note that and perhaps adjust the text accordingly. It would make us colonials feel ever so much at home reading about our own.
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