400TX Posted March 6, 2011 Share #1 Posted March 6, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Agfa APX 100 is back from the dead - in 35mm format, at least. In addition, other manufacturers are coming out with new emulsions. This got me to thinking - would it be possible for dedicated film shooters to effect the resurrection of Kodachrome? How big of a group order would it take to make this happen? It would also require bringing back the chems to process it. I don't konw if this is even within the realm of possibility - what do you folks think? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 6, 2011 Posted March 6, 2011 Hi 400TX, Take a look here Possible resurrection of Kodachrome?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
andybarton Posted March 6, 2011 Share #2 Posted March 6, 2011 APX is just a normal silver B&W film, processable in any kitchen, even in coffee. Kodachrome needs its own special (very nasty) chemicals and a large processing plant. No chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobey bilek Posted March 6, 2011 Share #3 Posted March 6, 2011 about as much chance as a snowman in summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
masjah Posted March 6, 2011 Share #4 Posted March 6, 2011 APX is just a normal silver B&W film, processable in any kitchen, even in coffee. Kodachrome needs its own special (very nasty) chemicals and a large processing plant. No chance. Agreed; sadly, not a puss in purgatory's chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
400TX Posted March 6, 2011 Author Share #5 Posted March 6, 2011 Too bad. I guess one of us is going to have to win a $250 million lottery to fund a relaunch of Kodachrome (not that it would be the best investment of those funds). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted March 6, 2011 Share #6 Posted March 6, 2011 I can think of a lot of much better things to do with 250M!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveYork Posted March 7, 2011 Share #7 Posted March 7, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) doubt it. Kodachrome was so hard to scan anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted March 7, 2011 Share #8 Posted March 7, 2011 The only way Kodak would even consider bringing Kodachrome back is compelling evidence of a sustained - as opposed to a one-time order - market. And, of course, that doesn't exist. Kodachrome, like our youth, is forever gone, living now only in our memories. I still have the boxes of the last seven rolIs I shot, delivered by Dwayne's in December and January, sitting on my desk, unopened. I can hardly bring myself to pull out that old Schneider loupe of mine and drop those slides onto the light table. They are probably the last slides I will ever shoot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnSchoie@aol.com Posted March 13, 2011 Share #9 Posted March 13, 2011 I am afraid you are all so right this is never going to happen. I do remember as a twelve year old nearly taking to the streets to demonstrate when the original Koadachrome (10ASA) was abandoned in favour of Kodachrome 11. How we decried the lack of definition of the new upstart and oh how we now would have her back, or would we! The processing was very toxic and no doubt totally alien to this age. What is everyone using now, colour positive wise? And yes I changed to AGFA CT18 when the upstart from Kodak arrived. John. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xmas Posted March 14, 2011 Share #10 Posted March 14, 2011 Hi No one was using it any more that was why there was only one processing centre, in the solar system. Decades ago there was processing in all major centres. Then I could walk to Box 14 Hemel Hempstead, and there was a box you could drop the film envelope into... alas long gone. Get Ford to start making the Model T again first. I have to walk further for the nearest C41 mini lab today. Noel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gberger Posted March 15, 2011 Share #11 Posted March 15, 2011 National Geographic photographers had more than a few words to say about the loss of Kodachrome - - but to no avail. And NG probably was the largest "single user" of the film. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticman Posted March 15, 2011 Share #12 Posted March 15, 2011 Get Ford to start making the Model T again first. This isn't really an accurate analogy, as Kodachrome did not give inferior results to what is available today using the absolute latest technology. Having said that, I only tried Kodachrome a few times in my student days, so I guess I am as guilty as any for its disappearance. 'If you don't use it, you lose it'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildlightphoto Posted March 15, 2011 Share #13 Posted March 15, 2011 This isn't really an accurate analogy, as Kodachrome did not give inferior results to what is available today using the absolute latest technology.. Between 1968 and last year I used hundreds of rolls of Kodachrome, nearly all flavors. In the 1960s and 1970s the Kodachromes were sharper and had more pleasing color than any of the E4 films. Beginning in the 1980s the improvements in E6 films and the ability to process at home made Kodachrome harder to justify except for its dark-storage longevity. Many E6 films are now sharper, finer-grained and have more exposure latitude, and the wider variety of emulsions have many more color palettes than Kodachrome had. I probably was more committed to Kodachrome than most, but several events turned me to other choices: fewer processing labs, 9/11 and mail irradiation, and the last nail in the coffin for me was a side-by-side comparison with the DMR. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerzilla Posted March 22, 2011 Share #14 Posted March 22, 2011 K64 and K25 were killed by Velvia 50, which was easier to get processed quickly and has the unrealistic but oh-so-desirable colours. K200 wasn't any good anyway; far too grainy. I don't think we can blame digital for the demise of Kodachrome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
otto.f Posted March 22, 2011 Share #15 Posted March 22, 2011 K200 was one of the films with the nicest grain ever, besides AGFA 50L (tungsten film E6) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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