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Last roll of Kodachrome processed
Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 8:09 PM on 07.23.10 |
| ->> For someone that was raised on film and not weaned until 2003 that is heart breaking! |
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Drew Hierwarter, Photographer
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Kingsport | TN | USA | Posted: 8:49 PM on 07.23.10 |
| ->> Shooting Kodachrome was great training. You had to get the exposures right, there was no "fixing it in post". I burned through miles of Kodachrome making mistakes and bracketing, bracketing, bracketing! :) |
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 8:57 PM on 07.23.10 |
| ->> me too ... weaned on the Big Red K that is ... what a superb medium ... if you got it right ... you had a gem ... shooting action sports with such a film separated the wheat from the chafe very quickly .... as much as liked Kodachrome though (and Ektachrome too) ... not sure I would go back now ... but I'll still miss it .... |
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John Korduner, Photographer
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Baton Rouge | LA | United States | Posted: 11:12 PM on 07.23.10 |
->> I bought a 15 book series last week on Craig's List. It was the Time Life Library of Photography, printed in 1983. I read the Light and Film book this afternoon, and Kodachrome was one of the mediums they discussed. Ironically, it didn't really catch my attention until I saw this thread
...Now the section on making your own Daguerrotypes on the other hand! I actually began calling doctors I know trying to find out if it's still possible to acquire the chemicals, and where I could go to mix them without killing myself and everyone around me. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 11:18 PM on 07.23.10 |
->> I want to shoot one last roll of Kodachrome on my Leica M4-2 before it's gone forever!! I love the results on my 50 Summicron.
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Dan Mendlik, Photographer
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North Ridgeville | OH | USA | Posted: 11:54 PM on 07.23.10 |
| ->> You best get shooting, Dec 10 is the last day they will process Kodachrome and they are the last lab doing K14 I believe. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 1:08 AM on 07.24.10 |
| ->> First of all, I need to find a couple of rolls of Kodachrome!! |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 1:10 AM on 07.24.10 |
| ->> I've got 11 rolls left then it's goodbye forever! |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 1:28 AM on 07.24.10 |
->> Send me one ;)
I need to stop by Tempe Camera and see if they have some left!!
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Andrew Nelles, Photographer
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Chicago | IL | usa | Posted: 1:49 AM on 07.24.10 |
| ->> I've got 2 rolls left in my fridge, I will load them in the Leica M6 before Dec. 10, that's for sure. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 4:16 PM on 07.24.10 |
->> Bummer, Tempe Camera is out of Kodachrome!!
I need to shoot one more roll!!
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Sam Morris, Photographer
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Henderson (Las Vegas) | NV | USA | Posted: 9:54 PM on 07.24.10 |
->> John Korduner, check out http://www.digitaltruth.com/ to see if they have the chemicals you need.
As much as I love to look at it, I have never actually shot a roll. If you haven't done so in a while, take out some pages of chromes of any type, slap them on a light table and start looking through them. It feels good on the eyes after months/years of looking at a monitor. |
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Bob Ford, Photographer
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Lehighton | Pa | USA | Posted: 10:48 PM on 07.24.10 |
->> I used to shoot a lot of (KR) Kodachrome 64 and I also loved (KM) Kodachrome 25, until I started working in local photo labs and developing my own stuff.
None of the labs I worked at were big enough to even consider developing Kodachrome. It wasn't so much a control issue, or price issue, although those were part of the reason, it was the wait that killed me. I got so used to (almost) instant gratification that I stopped shooting Kodachrome all together in the early 80s.
If I needed chrome after that it was mostly Fujichrome and on some occasions Ektachrome. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 1:21 PM on 07.25.10 |
->> As a related topic......
Most pro labs stopped processing E-6 due to the lack of work coming in to justify keeping the lines going consistently. You need the film going through the line to keep the QC Curves steady, if the line sits idle, the chemicals go out of whack. I had to learn this, one of my majors at Brooks was Photo Lab Management.
The K-14 process is even more intricate. Kodachrome is basically B&W Film and there are NO Organic Color couplers in the film, they are added along with the Color Dyes during process and then removed. That is why Kodachrome has so much more longevity than Ektachrome, there's no Organic Color Couplers to degrade. Also, in the K-14 process, a layer of Emulsion has to be physically scraped off the film, this adds to the Pain in the A$$ part of the K-14 line!!
In the early days of Ektachrome, the reversal Step was physical, you had to turn on a light to reverse the film, now in E-6 is a chemical process.
I will miss Kodachrome, I learned on it and I shot thousands of rolls of it in the early 80's!! I think I shot my last roll of Kodachrome in the early 90's, I should have shot more of it |
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