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If someone could develop my last remaining 25' roll of double-8mm Kodachrome II movie film (ASA 25 back in 1978) and produce a viewable image, I'd pay to make it worth their time. It just has to be stable enough for me to view it and transfer it to another media (even if by projection).
*IF* I did that, Which forum do you think I should toss it in?If pirateology starts a thread called "NEWS: Kodachrome processing now avaiable", i predict it will reach over 25 pages and eventually OVER 9000 posts.
I use a pair of LED flashlights, one red and one blue, I remove the film from the processing tank in the dark, expose the correct side of the film(The first exposure is through the base, second and third through the front) to the light 2-3 passes, and then put it back in the tank for the next developer. The third exposure is to room light and I just take it out of the tank and expose it with the lights on.
The actual development steps are in a Jobo rotary processor.
*IF* I did that, Which forum do you think I should toss it in?
Completely amazing. Here is my question then: How do you ensure you are only (and ONLY) exposing the correct side of the film in each case?
I'd put it here:
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)
But beware, you would be opening Pandora's box. Prepare for general mayhem. Abandon all hope, those who enter.
On a more serious note, you could offer this as a service, indeed. Or thoroughly publish here your process, so other people can try it as well. You could even repackage the chemicals you bought from Sigma-Aldrich on convenient, ready-to-mix form and sell them...
I'm working on a detailed writeup of the process for people who'd like to try it themselves, but its a difficult process to pull off. Its got a TON of steps, and stages, and developers. Makes 6 bath E6 seem like cake.
Pirateology,
Perhaps you would like to take a look at this thread where Stephen Frizza speaks about his experience on manually doing the K14 process:
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)
Perhaps there is something there you can take advantage of to improve your process.
I would think that perhaps a modified 35mm projector could be use as a makeshift machine for easily achieving the colored exposures.
If Kodak showed a millionth of the enthusiasm for relaunching Kodachrome that people show for endlessly launching threads about the relaunching of Kodachrome, there'd be no appetite for anyone to launch a thread about the relaunching of Kodachrome.
But of course, there's no appetite at Kodak for the relaunching of Kodachrome, and thus the appetite of those launching threads about the relaunching of Kodachrome will forever be unfulfilled
Thats an interesting thought! Though 35mm projectors are anything but cheap these days.
This is Fabulous! Congratulations!
And now here our hero comes showing ACTUAL PROOF of being able to develop Kodachrome, and yet the waters are still calm and quiet. Surprising.
Piratelogy produced some good looking slides in this thread. Perhaps the yellow was a little thin IMHO, but it is good enough for a commercial result. The dyes might not be stable enough to last six months, but long enough to scan. I think this is marvelous work.
There have been several "proof" examples shown here including Steve Frizza's.
PE
There are several better yellow and magenta couplers that can be used.
PE
Try US patent 3658525 which gives many patents for couplers.
One set which I believe was mentioned on APUG was:
cyan
1-Hydroxy-N-(2-acetamidophenethyl)- 2-naphthamide
yellow :1-Hydroxy-N-(2-acetamidophenethyl)- 2-naphthamide
magenta :1-(2,4,6-Trichlorophenyl)-3-(p-nitroanilino)-2-pyrazoline-5-one
link :http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/pr...sp?sku=8835888
All you need to do is take over the chemical manufacturing industry of a small eastern European country and you can make this stuff yourself.
Hi piratelogy,
Can you handle medium format in your process? I have some 120 format Kodachrome that I absolutely didn't expect to be able to use anymore, but have kept them in the freezer just in case.I'd be thrilled to actually shoot them!
Back when Dwayne's still did K14 (but only 35mm), I shot some medium format rolls and slit them down to 35mm before sending them to Dwayne's, who could handle the unperforated film just fine, and I got some cool wide images roughly twice the size of normal slides.
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