Kodachrome

[Sarath]

If Kodak relaunch Kodachrome and one development center for Kodachrome; how many rolls you will buy????

 

[OldBodyOldSoul]

Four.

 

[Anon Ymous]

Probably zero.

 

[Ian Grant]

None, for the same reasons I didn't use it when it was around, lack of local processing.

Ian

 

[John Bragg]

I loved Kodachrome, but I only shoot Mono, so probably just a few for old times sake.

 

[Andre Noble]

Kodak would only relaunch Kodachrome if they had guaranteed government funding well into 9 figures

 

[pdeeh]

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.

We are in the Realm of The Hungry Ghosts ...

 

[BrianShaw]

Give it up. Enough already!

 

[pdeeh]

You have no appetite for further discussion on this subject then Brian ?

 

[Stephen Frizza]

If Kodak relaunch Kodachrome and one development center for Kodachrome; how many rolls you will buy????

I think more importantly we should ask how many rolls per week were people here buying and shooting in the years and months leading up to kodachromes death. taking this into account it can be clearly seen why this product had its time and is now lain to rest. Shoot E-6 while you still barely have that!

 

[Wallendo]

I grew up shooting Kodachrome in the 60's and 70's, and still miss it.

To be honest, however, the last roll I remember shooting was in 1982 as a senior in college. Those images are as good now as they were in 1982. I still shoot a few rolls of Velvia 50 each year, and am working through a stash of EliteChrome 100 I picked up when Kodak discontinued that film, and I have a couple of rolls of Rollei CR200 I need to shoot whenever I have a subject best served by yellow slides.

Reality is that the golden age of slide film has passed.
Most consumers find is easier to view images on their computer monitors, or HDTV's than get out a projector, set up a screen, and darken a room.
Slide film has to be scanned in order to make prints, so it is easier to use print film (or just digital) if prints are the goal.
PowerPoint has replaced the Carousel as the preferred presentation format for lectures.

If Kodachrome was available, I might buy a few rolls, but I suspect it would be VERY expensive to produce the film, and even more expensive to develop it.

I am a Ferrania Kickstarter supporter, and, even in this case to recreating a standard E6 film, I wonder how expensive the film will need to be for Ferrania to make an adequate profit.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

IF you read the poll I started two years ago, you'll see that the overall appetite was a resounding "not at any price point" (some 57%). At the price point most folks who responded were willing to pay, whoever brought it back would be bankrupt within the year.

 

[BrianShaw]

...

Reality is that the golden age of slide film has passed.

....

Reality is that the golden YEARS (the old age, senior citizenship, that decline from vitality to the afterlife) of slide film is passing into oblivion as we sit here banging away nostalgically at our keyboards.

I'd buy no Kodakrome if it was made available again but if Ford decided to revive the Model T... I'd be in for two! Would anyone else care to join me in that dream?

 

[Gerald C Koch]

Give it up. Enough already!

+1000

These endless threads on Kodachrome have ceased to be useful or interesting.

 

[BMbikerider]

Probably none.
The last rolls of Kodachrome I used was in 2003 (Kodachome 200) and when they came back the colour was so bad I swore never to use it again. (were they being processing in Switzerland then?) Overall, there was quite a strong magenta cast and when I complained about them to Kodak, who were at that time still in Hemel Hempstead (UK), the response was one that amounted to it was my fault for over exposing them. Well they were not over exposed it was just the colour was dreadful. Bad customer service deserves to go out of business.

 

[Paul Howell]

Kodak cant make money on E 6 let alone Kodachrome, we just need to move on and support the color emulsion that are left.

 

[DWThomas]

In all honesty I probably stopped using Kodachrome in the 1970s or so. Somewhere along the way I switched to color negative film and getting prints which could be passed around more easily than setting up a slide show. And today, though I use and love B&W film, I find my color work going with that other technology. The latter is a matter of cost and convenience for the way I use my photographic results.

I'm also thinking there were issues with some of the chemicals used in Kodachrome and processing that might discourage its rebirth in these days of more conscientious environmental concerns.

(Sorry to be such a drag .... )

 

[skorpiius]

Reality is that the golden YEARS (the old age, senior citizenship, that decline from vitality to the afterlife) of slide film is passing into oblivion as we sit here banging away nostalgically at our keyboards.

I'd buy no Kodakrome if it was made available again but if Ford decided to revive the Model T... I'd be in for two! Would anyone else care to join me in that dream?

I'd be in to any 'new' vintage car which would be appropriate to park in front of my 1912 house

 

[dynachrome]

I met a person at a recent camera show in NJ who has been tinkering with Kodachrome. He opened his wallet and showed me a card with a checkerboard pattern of color on it. I recognized it as a reproduction of a Macbeth Color Checker. The reproduction was not half bad. He has a science background and hopes to work out an acceptable regimen for developing Kodachrome. His next project might be making a new version of Kodachrome with a the three coating layers. I think there will be a lot of color slide film coming from the Ferrania project before Kodak reintroduces Kodachrome.

 

[railwayman3]

I'd probably buy 40-50 per year. Provided the processing was better. But, realistically, it won't happen.

(And, like BMbikerider above, it was poor processing (in the UK, and later in Switzerland) back in the early 1990's that made me switch to other makes at that time....I decided I wan't willing to save up for special vacations then have my pictures ruined by scratches, blue spots and colour casts. It was only in the last 18 months of Kodachrome that I returned to it, having rediscovered the good quality processing from Dwaynes.)

 

[MattKing]

If Kodak developed a Kodachrome (or any other slide film) that was specifically designed for small batch or home processing, and marketed a reasonably priced small batch/home processing kit, and marketed slide mounts for small batch/home mounting, I would be all in!

E100GX would be a good model.

 

[mehguy]

If some of you might remember, a member here was able to process Kodachrome in full colour in 2012. He noted the difficulty of developing and the high cost.

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

 

[pentaxuser]

Sarath, if you get even 100 answers which might be a lot on APUG on this particular question, can I ask, just out of curiosity, how this information will benefit you?

Thanks

pentaxuser

 

[mehguy]

This video documents the process of Kodachrome developing. It really shows how much work was needed to develop Kodachrome.

 

[benjiboy]

Kodachrome is dead and will never come back, deal with it.