Want to Buy WTB: Well Preserved Kodachrome

[redisred]

Looking for Kodachrome 25 especially, but 64 and 200 as well. Needs to be very well preserved, freezer stored preferred.

 

[cullah]

Hi, I have four or so rolls of K25 that has been frozen since I bought it eight or ten years ago. Make me an offer.
Peter

 

[redisred]

@cullah Excellent, I could do $10/roll, would that work for you?

So, you bought them brand new and they've been frozen ever since? Also, are they all the same batch?
Thanks!

 

[mshchem]

Have you developed a secret lab?

 

[redisred]

I certainly hope to develop it someday, but it's definitely a pipe dream. I love the look of this film

 

[markbau]

Mine all went into the bin after the labs closed. Why on earth would you want a film that can’t be developed?

 

[EdSawyer]

I have 9 Rolls of K25 I would let go @ $10/roll. All frozen since new, same batch as far as I recall. Also have some K64 I think.

 

[redisred]

@EdSawyer I'd love to take those off your hands. I've never actually bought something here, do I pay you through PayPal?

 

[EdSawyer]

hi - I sent a PM and we can continue there...

thanks
-Ed

 

[cullah]

hi - I sent a PM and we can continue there...

thanks
-Ed

 

[cullah]

Hi, Ed,
I have 5 rolls that have been frozen since I bought them in, I think, 2002. I presume they are all from the same batch, that would make sense.
You can have them for $9 each. I'll pay postage.
My info is:
Peter McDonough
10x Seashorepark Drive
Provincetown, MA
31416@comcast.net

 

[GRHazelton]

I have three ASA 64 cassettes, 24 exp. Where is the batch number? One wants processing before 10/96, one before 8/96, one before 12/97, If your interested let me know; I'll even cover the postage. They've been in the freezer since purchase, along with my other film.

 

[AnselMortensen]

I have 5 rolls of PKR-120 available for $9 total, including CONUS USPS Priority Mail shipping.
Past storage unknown, but the boxes are in great shape.

 

[redisred]

Thanks everyone, the project is over now, I was able to do what I needed with what I had actually. Thank you

 

[Karl K]

This is very interesting.
Kindly follow up and share the details of your project.
I'm sure there are many lovers of Kodachrome on Photrio who are eager to learn more about your project.
Count me as #1.
I still have about 20 rolls deep frozen waiting for a K-Messiah.

 

[redisred]

Oh well, I have good news and bad news I guess. So I work for a company called VSCO, we've been doing a lot of film work in the digital space for years. We have a process where we physically model film's response to light in the spectral domain and it appears as presets in our app. Kodachrome is something I've wanted to do ever since we started practically, but it's obviously very difficult to develop. Unfortunately I can't go into much details about our development process, but I can say that it took 2 years and a lot of very talented, specialized people to get moderately decent results. It's definitely not something anyone could do at home, and even what we had was extremely difficult. It would take a few hours to develop a strip of like 4 frames by hand. So, Kodachrome is still dead, but we were able to develop enough to model it for our app. If you're interested, it's on both platforms to try for a week for free I believe. Sorry I don't have better news!

 

[moofy]

This sounds like an awful lot of effort to just make a fake film preset with. Sharing with the community might actually make it possible to have a usable way of developing this stuff for the rest of us, should your corporate overlords see fit to do so...

 

[Sarath]

I have well provia 35mm 36 exposure hand spooled that I am planning to list for $6 a roll.

 

[nbagno]

Not well preserved but https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/pho/d/santa-rosa-kodachrome-64-unopened-brick/7190956858.html

 

[MattKing]

Not well preserved but https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/pho/d/santa-rosa-kodachrome-64-unopened-brick/7190956858.html

And it will be great as a source of philosophical discussion - if the subject of Existentialism comes up.
After all, the listing does say: "This film does not exist anywhere"

 

[Acticus]

Jeez. Zombie film. Let it be...Kodachrome RIP.

 

[Michael Firstlight]

Are you able to process it?