You must have tried some of those out!
Qualitative organic analysis is quite a blast! Literally! Sometimes..........
PE
Kodachrome? It is obsolete!
Umm, you made the emulsions and coated them? This is implied in your post.
Please enlighten us.
PE
Let me expand on my post.
Qualitative Organic Analysis begins with what is called a Sodium test. You place a small sample of the unknown in a test tube, along with a small sample of Sodium metal. Then you heat it all and the Sodium decomposes the sample and you start from there. But sometimes it explodes.
Mine did.
PE
Let me expand on my post.
Qualitative Organic Analysis begins with what is called a Sodium test. You place a small sample of the unknown in a test tube, along with a small sample of Sodium metal. Then you heat it all and the Sodium decomposes the sample and you start from there. But sometimes it explodes.
Mine did.
PE
Wow, if some of you guys hate so much kodachrome you cold just ignore this thread. Just saying...
It is more to do with the continuing angst of its long, slow demise and the constant reminder of its loss.Wow, if some of you guys hate so much kodachrome you cold just ignore this thread. Just saying...
Ektachrome 100G does. Hope it comes back.The only reason it would be obsolete is if there was a product or system which clearly outperformed Kodachrome in EVERY category.
Yeah I hate those too, but here I find it interesting with piratelogy experimenting and posting some results. Even if the film itself is obsolete I still find it a fascinating processIt is more to do with the continuing angst of its long, slow demise and the constant reminder of its loss.
Sort of like a combination of a funeral and the movie "Groundhog Day".
...it kinda sorta worked.
Keep up the great work -- or interesting work, anyway. If the naysayers were truly fed up and uninterested, they wouldn't be following this thread, let alone posting to it.So are Daguerrotypes, and Collodion wetplate and yet they offer a unique look thats interesting and artistic as well as learning opportunities for how film works. Kodachrome is the same.
Ektachrome 100G does. Hope it comes back.
No offense but those words sum up quite good everything ... If something has proven this thread and other threads or www's on the internet about Kodachrome before this, it is the degree of difficulty throughout this K-film/process combination, and what it is most important, the "results" achieved so far. Sorry to say that this is one more sample of the same.
However, I congratulate you for your work, for your perseverance and I encourage you to continue experimenting like many others in this thread encourage you whatever the reason for you (if that makes you happy) or anyother's hopes, just like many others before you with others tests before. I do not know how many films / chemicals have been "used" to keep nothing steady. We all know, very to our misfortune, that K-film has a definite limit for those experimentations.
Now, that said, in my humble opinion, I would not trust any of my K-films in you (or in any other one) or in your K-process (or any other DIY), no matter how "kinda sorta worked" (?) that would become in the near future, not only due to the simple fact of a non-guarantee, stable, constant and reliable outcome, but because I wish, for the remaining K-films that I still own, a different Photographic destiny.
So, the pity that I see in all these personal attempts full of good intentions process, is the wastage of the film intended for those laboratory experiments and not for the Photography itself.
I wish you the best and I hope that all your research, tests, experimentation will take you to a frankly interesting and novel point, I would like to see that, but far away from what we all already know the Kodachrome film should be.
Best
When I took the class we were expected to substantiate or reasoning with three tests. We were allowed to use our nose and the stock room as one of the tests. For example a rancid smell might indicate one of the fatty acids like butyric or caproic. A fruity smell might mean an ester. Then you could smell possible compounds until the smells were alike. A bit less dramatic.
Oh, we could do that as well. In fact, back then my sense of smell was so good my prof. suggested that I go into the perfume business. When I told him "Kodak" he just nodded in acceptance. Now, I can't smell very well at all.
And on a general note, I do not disapprove of these types of experiments. They keep interest up. However, I see no reason to participate because I've BTDT and am just tired of the whole thing. I prefer trying to pass on emulsion knowledge.
PE
And on a general note, I do not disapprove of these types of experiments. They keep interest up. However, I see no reason to participate because I've BTDT and am just tired of the whole thing. I prefer trying to pass on emulsion knowledge.
PE
but because I wish, for the remaining K-films that I still own, a different Photographic destiny.
So, the pity that I see in all these personal attempts full of good intentions process, is the wastage of the film intended for those laboratory experiments and not for the Photography itself.
Best
Amen, amen, amen!Kodachrome is intended as a colour film, so processing it as B&W is also a waste of time, when there are tons of B&W films out there. Thats if this is your "destiny", there are no other real uses or Kodachrome unless you want to keep your rolls as a museum piece.
Fair enough too. I assume you have attempted processing Kodachrome yourself in the past?
What "destiny" do you want for your Kodachrome?
Kodachrome is intended as a colour film, so processing it as B&W is also a waste of time, when there are tons of B&W films out there.
Thats if this is your "destiny", there are no other real uses or Kodachrome unless you want to keep your rolls as a museum piece.
Piratelogy's work will inevitably lead to colour images being recovered from the space shuttle film and other such forgotten exposed kodachrome out there.
I think thats valuable in itself.
There is no other practical use for any remaining Kodachrome...
Processing Kodachrome as B&W is not only a waste of time, it is even highly foolish now that we have the capability to process it in (at least some) color.
You don't even get that great B&W images out of it. You're much better off with Tri-X.
OK, well I have not been around here long enough to even come across your posts as of yet, but anyway I was not referring to a lab environment at a certified Kodachrome lab, rather if you had tempted the process yourself with or without the correct Kodachrome couplers.I've answered this over and over. I have been present when lab samples were processed, both single and multilayer.
I even posted some pictures of it being processed.
PE
I stand to be corrected, but I'm not sure you can develop Kodachrome to a b&w positive slide.black and white slides as a result
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