https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/kodak-brings-back-ektachrome-film-much-to-the-delight-of-analog-photographers-1.4841332
With all of the fancy 20+MP digital cameras out there, plus just about every phone has a camera, it will be interesting to see if this venture by Kodak is successful.
zardozWith all of the fancy 20+MP digital cameras out there, plus just about every phone has a camera, it will be interesting to see if this venture by Kodak is successful.
Well, a nearby lab offers 35 MP scans from 6x7 film at processing at about the same cost as 4x5 proofs, so this is good news. Just wish I had time to get out the beast and take some of the fridge film out for a good exposing. Maybe this fall.
Anyone have a secret lab and chemical stash at home? Then we could bring Kodachrome back too!
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You could not process Kodachrome in the kitchen sink. Extachrome you could, but you had to follow the directions precisely. I wonder if Kodak will reissue small batch kits of the reagents necessary to process Extachrome.
The article shows a 35mm canister of Extachrome in a SLR. Will Extachrome also be available in 120 rolls and sheet film?
Victrola1The article shows a 35mm canister of Extachrome in a SLR. Will Extachrome also be available in 120 rolls and sheet film?
At this point, it doesn't look like it. Press release from Kodak.
ChuckCobleigh Victrola1 The article shows a 35mm canister of Extachrome in a SLR. Will Extachrome also be available in 120 rolls and sheet film? At this point, it doesn't look like it. Press release from Kodak.
Victrola1 The article shows a 35mm canister of Extachrome in a SLR. Will Extachrome also be available in 120 rolls and sheet film?
My Mamiya C3 gently weeps.
Victrola1 ChuckCobleigh Victrola1 The article shows a 35mm canister of Extachrome in a SLR. Will Extachrome also be available in 120 rolls and sheet film? At this point, it doesn't look like it. Press release from Kodak. My Mamiya C3 gently weeps.
My Argus C-3 doesn't seem to mind Fuji film, but maybe that's because Dad bought it in the PX when he was in Japan on occupation duty.
I did process Ektachrome in the kitchen sink. I forget how many baths there were, but I had them all set up in big margarine tubs. With a little care, you saved money over the drug store.
Mike
MikeFFI did process Ektachrome in the kitchen sink. I forget how many baths there were, but I had them all set up in big margarine tubs. With a little care, you saved money over the drug store.
OK, back in the E-2/E-3 days: first developer, first stop, hardener, manual reversal exposure, color developer, second stop, bleach, formalin fixer (guaranteed to leave an awful taste in the mouth from just breathing the fumes), stabilizer, and maybe Photo-Flo before hanging up to dry. In those days, you actually had to expose the film to light after the hardener rinse following the first stop. I think when E-4 hit, the reversal did not need an exposure.
Did this in motel sinks on a summer trip with folks in 1963 because somebody wrote an article about doing that in “Popular Photography” and it seemed like a good idea. I got a little less suggestible after that summer.
The smallest Extachrome processing kits as recall would do around 12 rolls of film. This was fine if you shot a lot of film in a short time. If not, the chemicals would oxidize to useless in about two weeks.
I did a lot more Anscochrome than Extachrome in the kitchen sink. Long gone GAF made slide processing kits to do about 4 rolls of Anscochrome. Unlike the E4 process, GAF required exosing the film to light during processing.
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