This could be fun!

[480sparky]

Ended up with a stash of Kodachrome film this morning. 25, 40 and 64. 36-ex rolls, 54 in all. All dated 1990-1991.

 

[MattKing]

I expect you know this, but Kodachrome can no longer be sent for processing as a colour slide.

Here is the main thread which discusses how it can be processed yourself as black and white: (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

 

[480sparky]

I expect you know this, but Kodachrome can no longer be sent for processing as a colour slide.

Here is the main thread which discusses how it can be processed yourself as black and white: (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

I know. I can be cross-processed.

 

[MattKing]

I know. I can be cross-processed, or DELETED

Deleted in response to deletion

EDIT:

And I wouldn't really describe processing it as black and white as "cross processing", because that more properly refers to processing one colour medium in another colour medium's colour process.

 

[OptiKen]

I do this frequently. I process in Rodinal usually, which does make it grainy, but I think you will find that processing Kodachrome as B & W is going to have more grain than a real B & W film will.

It is fun, btw. Enjoy!

 

[accozzaglia]

/me glances at the photo. Then cries.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Ended up with a stash of Kodachrome film this morning. 25, 40 and 64. 36-ex rolls, 54 in all. All dated 1990-1991.

That and $50US will just barely pay for a cup of Starbucks coffee.

 

[480sparky]

That and $50US will just barely pay for a cup of Starbucks coffee.

Well, I schucked out, precisely,.................. $0.00. And I don't drink coffee, either.

 

[MattKing]

/me glances at the photo. Then cries.

Me too - sort of.

I grew up surrounded by Kodachrome, and once I started shooting on my own, shot a lot. I also bought a bunch of Kodachrome (off Daniel Bayer) when it was going away, and shot it. I miss it, but I'm happy with other stuff as well.

I was recently given a bunch of Kodachrome 25 that was freezer stored since purchased new. I've got one roll shot, with a bunch of bracketed exposures, with a mind to determining an EI.

I haven't shot any lower speed stuff for a long time, so that part is what attracted me to the experiment.

I'll see where it gets me.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

/me glances at the photo. Then cries.

Yep. A substantial part of my future retirement anticipation died as well. I don't know that I'll ever get over it...



Ken

 

[Athiril]

You could technically process this with alternative dye couplers if you really had to I would think, processing as a B&W negative, you could still reprocess back to colour in the future (colour neg) if you got your hands on some couplers.

 

[accozzaglia]

Me too - sort of.

I grew up surrounded by Kodachrome, and once I started shooting on my own, shot a lot. I also bought a bunch of Kodachrome (off Daniel Bayer) when it was going away, and shot it. I miss it, but I'm happy with other stuff as well.

As time wound down, I struggled to find some KPA40 rolls, but never succeeded. I looked everywhere (eBay, here, elsewhere locally). Even in all the film donations people sent me (since they weren't going to shoot their rolls before time ran out), none ever showed up. Along with four exposed rolls which were stolen from me in 2009, not getting to shoot tungsten-balanced Kodachrome will remain my greatest "but what if" regret.

Five years on, I still catch myself visualizing the world around me with the Kodachrome palette and the way its edge acutance rendered definition. It happens even when I'm not holding a camera or thinking about photography.

I know there was always going to be unexposed rolls lingering about after the end of 2010, but to see entire bricks of unexposed rolls still showing up years later sort of gives me agitation. My reaction amounts to "Where in the [words about flowers and sunshine] were you with all this film back then?!" It's mildly annoying.

 

[gzhuang]

Congratulations! \o/ Enjoy your tri-chrome adventures.

 

[gzhuang]

I do this frequently. I process in Rodinal usually, which does make it grainy, but I think you will find that processing Kodachrome as B & W is going to have more grain than a real B & W film will.

It is fun, btw. Enjoy!

KR reacts like PlusX during its BW development stage. HC110, D76 or Ilford ID11 would be ideal as a developer.

 

[removed account4]

Congratulations! \o/ Enjoy your tri-chrome adventures.

!!!!! +1

 

[MattKing]

What is particularly sad about most of the Kodachrome I just received is that it is Canadian - which means processing was included.

 

[accozzaglia]

The batch I received from someone in 2009 (about twenty rolls) were all Canadian and pre-paid. By then, however, the pre-paid voucher for Canada was no longer honoured (even as the European vouchers were). I did, however, use the envelopes to help Parsons distinguish the rolls I sent to them.

 

[BradleyK]

/me glances at the photo. Then cries.

Me too - sort of.

I grew up surrounded by Kodachrome, and once I started shooting on my own, shot a lot. snip

I shot my first roll of KM25 on 17 May 1979, about one hour (subject not recalled) after I picked up my first Nikon (a black F2AS w/ 28 F2Ai and a 105 F2.5Ai) and I shot my last roll of #1563 KR on 25 December 2010 with the same camera, using a 35mmF1.4 Ais at Medicine Lake in Jasper National Park.

Yep. A substantial part of my future retirement anticipation died as well. I don't know that I'll ever get over it...

Same here, Ken, Kodachrome will always be my benchmark... (sigh)



Ken

As time wound down, I struggled to find some KPA40 rolls, but never succeeded. I looked everywhere (eBay, here, elsewhere locally).

Same here, KPA was the only Kodachrome I never had the opportunity to shoot. Several attempts to bid on ebay fell flat.

Five years on, I still catch myself visualizing the world around me with the Kodachrome palette ... snip

For me, this seems to be especially the case when the fall colors arrive on top of the mountain...

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

In the early 70s I was an undergraduate at USC in Los Angeles. To earn money for food and rent I was working at Disneyland. I bought my first camera during that time. A black Nikon F2 Photomic w/55mm f/1.2 Nikkor. A fast lens because I was working night shifts, and sometimes took it into the Park. The first roll of film I loaded was Kodachrome. As I recall the first subject was a cute girl I knew working in Fantasyland.

In December of 2010 I picked up that exact same camera and loaded the last roll of Kodachrome. That afternoon I wandered around the rural area where I live. RFD mailboxes, rusting bridges, old-town building facades, barren trees. Sad things. The sun sets early in December. So I returned home, mounted my 24mm f/2.8 Nikkor, pointed it into my darkroom only hours before the final deadline for me to send it off to Dwayne's, and made one last exposure.

I did save one unexposed roll, now living deep in my freezer, for posterity and the archeologists. I never purchased another Kodak product of any kind after that final roll. That was, by Kodak's choice and not my choice, the end of the line for me.

It's autumn right now. Autumns are still difficult. And retirement, when it eventually arrives, will not be what I imagined it to be...

Ken

 

[wblynch]

They couldn't have given that film away BEFORE thr deadline?

Sheesh

 

[Sirius Glass]

They couldn't have given that film away BEFORE thr deadline?

Sheesh

My thoughts too.

 

[MattKing]

The film I have appears to be part of a huge batch of film including black and white and E6. All of it was left unused after the owners went to digital.

I understand the inertia of not wanting to give up something once loved.

 

[480sparky]

More likely, they just stuffed it in a drawer and forgot about it.

 

[MattKing]

More likely, they just stuffed it in a drawer and forgot about it.

In my film's case, it remained lovingly freezer stored for many years.

When they finally decided that it was time to find people who would use it, or give it away, or sell it to others, there was pretty close to 1,000 rolls.

This couple shot a lot of film. As I understand it, they currently still shoot a lot of digital.