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Saving Kodachrome?

Remember that about 2 years ago, Michael Kadillak got Kodak to cut special pre orders of sheet films!

PE
 

Nay, forsooth. I shall never darken the Digital door neither shall I dwell in the lands of Digital for their fingers probe the darkest nether regions of places which I shall not tread.
 

Nah, there won't be any technology current at the time which will be able to read the media, so they'll end up melting it and using it as a base for a lamp.
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Photo Engineer said:
Remember that about 2 years ago, Michael Kadillak got Kodak to cut special pre orders of sheet films!

PE
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And not just him. Freestyle did a special order of 11x14" Tri-X not long ago, and presumably others who don't organize group offers on the internet have done special orders.
 
David A. Goldfarb said:
And not just him. Freestyle did a special order of 11x14" Tri-X not long ago, and presumably others who don't organize group offers on the internet have done special orders.
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Yes, David, so Kodak will do special orders of custom cuts of products that are in the current lineup!

PE
 
lxdude said:
As I recall, Audrey Jonckheer retired last year, right about the time Kodachrome was discontinued.
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Just for the record: Mary Jane Hellyar was the person I was thinking of.
 
They process to black and white.
 
hpulley said:
Yeah? Where does it say that? For process22 you're right, it says to B&W, bummer.

At 'oldfilmprocessing' it says color or B&W. For forty quid I would have expected color. Sent them an email.
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This should be interesting.

I can't find where they say it, either.
If they are running the K-12 or K-14 processes, I'll eat my hat. And no Carmen Miranda fruit hat, either. I'm talking my grimy, sweat stained workin' under the house hat.
 
There's no way they are doing color, I seriously doubt it. Ron, I bet most labs would do Kodachrome in B&W if you asked them. But why?

It is possible to process Kodachrome without the specialized machine, just ask PE. It'd be worth keeping all your unprocessed Kodachrome for the day when someone decides to figure it out.
 
I guess they assume that's known.
 
Oldfilmprocessing state:
35mm Slide Film (Colour or B/W) Processing & Mounting
NON E6 Process only.
35mm Slide Film Process (Develop) & Mount

KodakChrome and other Old Slide Films

NON E6 Processes
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Yes, that is very misleading. One could read it as processing films intended as colour slides to whatsoever, or as processing them to colour slides.

I, without knowing the Kodachrome situation, would have read it the latter way.
 

That's how I read it and they even coutch it further to say that old slides with 'difficult' color may need to be printed as B&W:

Since the films are old, images may be deteriorated and skill is applied in processing in order to get the best results possible. I some cases where the colour layer of the film is not good we print it in Black & White.
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I had to press them in email before they would tell me that the 'slides' would be B&W so in fact they don't even try to turn them into color via the K14 process and there is no chance at all of getting color prints out of them. For 40 quid I'd be very disappointed by B&W negatives from my Kodachrome.
 
Like another Paul Simon song says
"No I would not bring you false hope, on this strange and mournful day"
 
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