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Kodachrome
Must have been asleep for the past few months - seems that there is now
only a single Kodachrome lab left in the world and Kodachrome super 8 is no more as well. How the mighty have fallen... Chris |
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Kodachrome
ChrisQuayle wrote:
Must have been asleep for the past few months - seems that there is now only a single Kodachrome lab left in the world I think there are still two: http://www.horiuchi-color.co.jp/index2/english/english.html and http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/ both claim on their websites to do K-14. Kodak sent my last roll of super-8 to Dwayne's after I just missed the deadline for Kodak processing. How the mighty have fallen... It is too bad. I'm not sure I want to try Ektachrome in Super-8. I may just stick with black and white. Peter. -- |
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"Peter Irwin" wrote in message ... ChrisQuayle wrote: Must have been asleep for the past few months - seems that there is now only a single Kodachrome lab left in the world I think there are still two: http://www.horiuchi-color.co.jp/index2/english/english.html and http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/ both claim on their websites to do K-14. Kodak sent my last roll of super-8 to Dwayne's after I just missed the deadline for Kodak processing. How the mighty have fallen... It is too bad. I'm not sure I want to try Ektachrome in Super-8. I may just stick with black and white. Peter. -- I just had a roll of Kodachrome done at my local, "Shutterbug". They sent it to Dwayne's. It didn't cost too much, and they did a good job, but it took me three weeks to get it back....... |
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Kodachrome
"ChrisQuayle" wrote in message
... Must have been asleep for the past few months - seems that there is now only a single Kodachrome lab left in the world and Kodachrome super 8 is no more as well. I used mostly E-6 film when I was doing a lot of food photography about ten years ago, but I would shoot the occasional roll of Kodachrome, mainly because of its status as a classic. Kodachrome 64 was available at Wal-Mart and Target in those days. While I liked the results, the wait to get the chromes back from Kodak was excruciating, and the quality of their service was deteriorating by that time. The slides were delivered in cheapo cardboard mounts and were often dusty. I eventually concluded that Kodachrome wasn't worth the trouble. I still have the Kodachrome Super-8 movies I shot as a teen in the 1960s and they looked great the last time I viewed them, about two years ago while transferring them to Mini-DV. While I haven't used it in a long time, my Kodak Instamatic M2 looks to be in working order and I might run some film through it while I can still get it. My Super-8 camera, close-up lens, and projector, all in their original boxes, are tucked away in a closet. The smell of a Kodachrome Super-8 cartridge when you opened the foil package is a pleasant memory from my teen years. Does anyone happen to know if Kodachrome was the first film to use the suffix "chrome"? SW |
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Summer Wind wrote:
Does anyone happen to know if Kodachrome was the first film to use the suffix "chrome"? IIRC (I'm not going to check it now), Agfachrome may have been the first. |
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Summer Wind wrote:
Does anyone happen to know if Kodachrome was the first film to use the suffix "chrome"? No, it wasn't even the first stuff that Kodak called "Kodachrome". The first material of that name was a two colour process on glass plates from around 1916. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_film_systems "-chrome" was also a common suffix for highly orthochromatic black and white films of the Verichrome type. Kodak Verichrome, Ilford Selochrome and Agfa Plenichrome were all black and white films launched in the early 1930s. People even talked about "chrome" film meaning film of the Verichrome type. Both Kodak and Ilford later made panchromatic versions called "Verichrome Pan" and "Selochrome Pan" respectively. Peter. -- |
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Kodachrome
ChrisQuayle wrote: Must have been asleep for the past few months - seems that there is now only a single Kodachrome lab left in the world and Kodachrome super 8 is no more as well. How the mighty have fallen... Chris Here in the UK we used to have a lab in hemel hempstead. When it closed many years ago we had to send to France, now the only lab is in Switzerland. Until a month or so ago, they used to offer as choice of card or plastic mounts but now they only offer cardboard (or unmounted). We can still buy process-paid Kodachrom 64 and 200 at about £7-8 for 10 rolls. Robert |
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Kodachrome
"Robert" wrote:
Here in the UK we used to have a lab in hemel hempstead. When it closed many years ago we had to send to France, now the only lab is in Switzerland. The Lausanne lab has also stopped processing Kodachrome recently. The only two labs left in the world are in the USA and Japan. |
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Kodachrome
James Robinson writes:
The Lausanne lab has also stopped processing Kodachrome recently. The only two labs left in the world are in the USA and Japan. That's what everyone says, but someone who sent Kodachromes to Lausanne 2 weeks ago got them back, developed, yesterday. It could be the films made the trip across the ocean and back in two weeks, though. |
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Kodachrome
Toni Nikkanen wrote:
James Robinson writes: The Lausanne lab has also stopped processing Kodachrome recently. The only two labs left in the world are in the USA and Japan. That's what everyone says, but someone who sent Kodachromes to Lausanne 2 weeks ago got them back, developed, yesterday. It could be the films made the trip across the ocean and back in two weeks, though. There is a Wikipedia page that goes into a bit more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome "On June 30, 2006, Eastman Kodak announced the closure of the Lausanne Kodachrome lab, the world's only remaining lab for Kodachrome processing owned by Eastman Kodak itself. Since September 30, 2006, only Dwayne's Photo in Kansas and the Horiuchi Color Lab in Tokyo remain: two private Kodachrome laboratories, both monitored by Kodak. ... From October 2006 onwards, all Kodachrome processing for Europe and North America will be consolidated to Dwayne's." |
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