Whyntcha post some of your pics?
Posted on 03/11/2002 12:24:59 PM PST by Don Joe
It's sickening! No more Ektar (25 & 100 missed the most), no more Royal Gold (25 & 100 as per Ektar), no more Pro100, no more Kodachrome 25, no more 120 Kodachrome, no more Verichrome Pan, no more Plus-X or Tri-X (although they will be delivering replacements -- different films -- with the same names for those two classics), and there was going to be no more Kodachrome 200, but they backed down -- they'll sell it at something like $23 a roll -- while there's still demand for it. (Gee, how long will that be at that price?)
SUH-WEET!!!
Nice pic!!!
No abuse here.
Cmon Laz - it aint that bad - we still have Zwiegles
My neighbor mixes emusion - wonder how soon he'll be moving
Cmon Laz - it aint that bad - we still have Zwiegles
My neighbor mixes emusion - wonder how soon he'll be moving
That's not the reason you left Rochester...and WE know her name!! bwaaahaaaahaaaaa
Photo-sho-o-o-p, you give us those nice bright colors...
Whyntcha post some of your pics?
I have a ton of the most beautiful pictures you ever saw. I don't know how to get them in here though. When I figure it out, I'll ping you.
Thanks for posting this. I'm horrified. Sickened. My grandfather is rolling in his grave even as I type. I have K25 slides of his taken before I was born (I'm 44) and the color is still perfect.
K25 was the original color film, correct? Dating back to 1939? I remember that it has (had) four actual emulsions, one black & white, plus one for each of the primary colors of light. Back in my college days I worked for a short time in a K14 lab running the processor, 8mm on one side, 35mm on the other. It was something. Forgot exactly how many tanks the machine had, but with four separate developers plus rinses, fix, and bleach baths for each, it was easily in the twenties. Huge machine. Must have taken a while to pay for itself.
Good luck finding any. And what of National Geographic? They were strictly K25. Have they gone digital (sold out) as well?
There will never be another Tri-X, but does Ilford still make a good B & W?
So it begs the question: Why? Why the big changes? Were all these films environmentally incorrect, or were they just not profitable?
Not quite! The film has three layers, like all color film. What you are remembering is that there are four developers, the first developer (MQ in K-12 or PQ in K-14), cyan, yellow, and magenta. What sets apart Kodachrome from all other color films is that the dyes and couplers are contained in the three color developers rather than being incorporated into the film itself. This makes for a rather complicated and costly process but a very simple film. As for the number of tanks, the K-14 process is as follows:
1)Pre-bath or rem jet.
2)Rem-jet wash
3)First Developer
4)First Developer wash
5)Cyan developer
6)Cyan wash
7)Yellow Developer
8)Yellow wash
9)Magenta Developer
10)Magenta wash
11)Bleach
12)Bleach wash (spray)
13)Fixer
14)Final wash
For K-12, substitute Prehardner for the pre-bath, and add a magenta reversal bath and wash before the magenta developer.
I also worked at a Kodachrome lab many years ago (early '70's).
I am grieved by this as well, and share your pain. I also lament the loss of glass lenses and metal camara bodies. Plastic lenses do not appear to accept gold flashings. New cameras surely don't look as sharp through the viewfinder as the older ones. My fairly well equiped darkroom may become inoperable due to losses like this. Actually, this marks the beginning of the end of a pure art form.
Its extremely sad, really.
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