The King is dead - Kaput, Tote, deceased, passed away and there is NO resurection and the DNA has been consigned into pre history.
My last Kodachrome the 200ISO version which was processed in Switzerland was quite the worst slide film I have ever had the misfortuune to use. It had an all over colour cast of pink, (4 cassettes all the same) The greens were practically non existant and when I sent in a complaint I never even received an acknowledgement
I actually prefered in the old Ektachrome series, the 'EC' version. Slightly more saturation and quite accurate colours.
I can imagine the problems you mentioned with Kodachrome 200.
Remember : This emulsion was not the
modernest ever seen in laboratories.
It was the best to archieve slides in long live concerns.
But not so in projection to long time and to often.
In regard of its age is was very grainy (K14) - so the Kodachrome 64 had a very good sharpness - but with ISO 64 it was not excellent from the grain.
But it was quite OK
....
The Kodachrome25 was THE Champion
very smal grain - comparible with Velvia50 but with a little more sharpness to get little more greater sized enlargements.
BUT Kodachrome 200 may have had its
profits in the past - at least it was obsolate.
I never used it but I can imagine the
grainy characteristics - I also never used
any Ektachrome 200.
Let me say in short : "It makes no sense to use high speed E6 films in regard to projection of slides (exept 6x6 slides, perhaps also ecept Fuji ISO 400)
It makes much much more sense to use
a stabile tripot! !! Or in case of avaible light -the use of some c-41 films."
The colors you mentioned with Kodachrome 200 I can also imagine.
BUT this was not caused from the film
or caused from the lab.
It possible was
on you !
I would like to state K14 labs in general were equiped with much much very old stuff - but therefore their work has, never the less, give the reason to an extrem high and precise standard.
Not so easy to be done but an absolute MUST.
And I would like to say color shifts with
K14 development in such extrem form caused from the K14 lab are IMPOSSIBLE.
But it is also impossible to have such effects with overstored Kodakchrome.
Exeption : massive overstorage (a coupple of years with high temperatures in summer
....)
Yes your description of bad colors was exact.
I had it also to one time (not twice
)
But it was Kodachrome25 exposed in 1991-1993 ???? developed in 2006.
I totaly forgot this film somewere.
And it was a little time travel by regarding
the early shots
!
THE colors wasn't so bad
.....there have
been some kind of colors so it wasn't in bw.
AMAZING !!!!
Sure I would never blame Dwaynes Lab for bad development.
The opposite is the case : Excellent work
because there are still some colors remaining after more than 15 years
.
with regards
PS : You may have caused color shifts in this extrem form :
1) from latent images of an extreme age.
2) from overstorage of several
years (more than 5 years)
3) from extreme climate conditions or
from heating (some days in the car in frontsite windows at 89 degree C )
