Kodak Z- and other C-41 documents

[chassis]

Hello all

Learning immensely from this site. Thanks to: Mr. Mowrey, Mr. Lyga, bvy, Greg Davis and others. I know I missed some names, so thanks to all of those who have added to the record of knowledge and experience.

Regarding Kodak Z-131 and other documents. I realize emailing Mr. Vacco is the suggested method. In this digital age, aren't these documents hosted on a site somewhere? The documents are not readily found on Kodak's or Kodak Alaris' sites. Can they be hosted on this site? This could also be done for the basic C-41 documents which Mr. Mowrey has posted many times. New people are coming to the site and learning C-41, and it is difficult to retrace the old threads to find the information.

 

[markbarendt]

Simply Google "Kodak Z-131"

 

[chassis]

Hello Mark,

Thanks. I tried the suggestions and it didn't come up. Eventually I found it. With the number of people interested in this information, it would seem helpful to post this on this site, if such a capability exists.

 

[darkroommike]

The Alaris Kodak site may be permanently down but try here http://wwwca.kodak.com/global/plugins/acrobat/en/service/Zmanuals/z131_01.pdf you'll have to download one chapter at a time by changing the part no. at the end.

 

[bvy]

Also, look here:
http://125px.com/docs/chemicals/kodak/

 

[MattKing]

The Alaris Kodak site may be permanently down but try here http://wwwca.kodak.com/global/plugins/acrobat/en/service/Zmanuals/z131_01.pdf you'll have to download one chapter at a time by changing the part no. at the end.

It is the Eastman Kodak site that whose Z document links are permanently "down".
For a while, Eastman Kodak was allowing the documents to stay on their system while Kodak Alaris maintained and linked to them, but that arrangement seems to be over.
It seems however that there still are some vestiges of the documents that used to be linked there - your relatively strange Kodak Canada (I think) link still works (for now).
In the earlier APUG thread the OP recounted a communication with Mr. Vaaco which indicated that Kodak Alaris intended to take steps to make them more available.
It may be that they intend to edit them before they do, as they did with the documents they have put links to on their current site. Those edits removed references to no longer available legacy products.

 

[RPC]

New people are coming to the site and learning C-41, and it is difficult to retrace the old threads to find the information.

When I first came to this site over 10 years ago, I went back to the first page of the color film & processing forum, from when this site first started, and went forward through it page by page, reading threads that related to what I was most interested in, C-41 and RA-4 processing. I learned a ton of information I didn't know that helped me immensely in my darkroom work. It takes some time, but you wouldn't regret it. It is like taking a course. You would be getting a lot of info from many of the old-timers who used to visit this site who grew up in an analog world instead of a digital world. You would probably benefit the most by starting with threads from about early 2005 when PE, (Mr. Mowrey, Photo Engineer here) joined the site. He not only has given a lot of useful information you probably couldn't get anywhere else but has dispelled many myths that, unfortunately some people still believe today. I also highly recommend this to the "new people" you mentioned coming to this site who want to learn more about C-41 or any other topic.

 

[Photo Engineer]

RPC thanks. There is also a "myths" section on Photo Net that I have authored for both Color and B&W.

PE

 

[darkroommike]

Another source for a lot of Kodak info (while it lasts is at 125px.com
http://125px.com/docs/techpubs/kodak/z131_01.pdf

 

[chassis]

Thanks again to all. I got a little impatient/over enthusiastic in finding the information. Depends on one's perspective!

RPC thanks for the suggestion, I have started exactly that. I have gotten through about 15 pages of threads on the "Color..." forum. Good stuff.

I also grew up in the analog age, but definitely later than some folks here... I started with Plus-X, and thought if I ever was able to shoot Verichrome Pan, then I would have made it!

 

[RPC]

RPC thanks. There is also a "myths" section on Photo Net that I have authored for both Color and B&W.

PE

Yes, I have seen you over there and learned a lot there as well.