Kodak Processing of Super-8 KODACHROME film ends August 1

[Regular8]

Something tells me I better shoot the remain 100 rolls of S8 and Reg8 in the freezer this summer along with my K25 slide film.

Something tells me that K-14 processing is going to be dead in 3 years or less.

That will be the end of any archival films on the planet. After that it is just lousy E-6 which is NOT ARCHIVAL or C-41 print stuff which fades. Even this will be gone in 10 years.

You are seeing the death of film and after that memory....

[Rob]

Something tells me I better shoot the remain 100 rolls of S8 and Reg8 in the freezer this summer along with my K25 slide film.

Something tells me that K-14 processing is going to be dead in 3 years or less.

That will be the end of any archival films on the planet. After that it is just lousy E-6 which is NOT ARCHIVAL or C-41 print stuff which fades.

If you reckon its got three years left there seems little point shooting it all this summer......

Fair point about its archival properties though.

Rob

[audadvnc]

That will be the end of any archival films on the planet.
You are seeing the death of film and after that memory....

Hmm, getting a bit overreactive, no? Why not read a good book? I hear they have a pretty good shelf life. I've got one on my shelf here, entitled "Handmaid to the Arts", published London, 1764, that gives directions on compounding your own art supplies with commonly available substances such as arsenic, sulphur, lead, mercury, etc. It has some beautiful typography and curious 18th Century figures of speech, such as:

"The fixt muffle muft be of the fame general figure withe the loofe kind; but the bottom muft be always a proper part of it, and exactly of the fize fuitable to the extent of the arched part, without any margin."

What does that mean? I dunno either, but it's right there in print, so it's gotta be true.

[reflex]

"The fixt muffle muft be of the fame general figure withe the loofe kind; but the bottom muft be always a proper part of it, and exactly of the fize fuitable to the extent of the arched part, without any margin."

What does that mean? I dunno either, but it's right there in print, so it's gotta be true.

My goodnefs, I hope you're juft being filly...

The "f" that commonly appeared in typography before the 1780s is a long form of the letter S, modelled after handwriting styles of the era. You'll never find it at the end of a word and it is sometimes paired with a small s in case of double letters, which formed a compound letter similar to the German 'ß'.

[etimh]

That will be the end of any archival films on the planet. You are seeing the death of film and after that memory....

Hmm, getting a bit overreactive, no? Why not read a good book? I hear they have a pretty good shelf life.

I don't think this comment by Regular8 is overreactive at all. Certainly the "death" of film will not lead to a complete loss or demise of memory, per se. But a certain kind of memory and "aide-mémoire" will pass with the disappearance of film.

And this further illustrates the problem with your literary comparison and your suggestion to alternatively "read a good book." Printed matter provides the means to a very specific kind of memory, but the visual remains unique and just as important, I think.

Tim

[S8 Booster]

talking of death of film,.....

me stay with film whatsoever, however, yesterday i got another digital chock, the Olympus µ 700 with 7.1 mpix - theres a 8 mpix same size avail too and the cam is no bigger than a little beefy cellular phone !

image quality is ofcourse more than adequate for joe hvermansen.



from the 800 abt same size - huge screen lotto info


not saying it is the end of the road for film budd convenience, convenience.

dual

[camera8mm]

John, you didnt specify that kodak will only honor the mailers.
Kodak isnt accepting film sent in with a check. or even worse, film sent in that was bought with prepaid processing which is highly illegal since you cant sell something with service later, then not honor that. now who knows how long kodak will honor the mailers.

[tlatosmd]

"The fixt muffle muft be of the fame general figure withe the loofe kind; but the bottom muft be always a proper part of it, and exactly of the fize fuitable to the extent of the arched part, without any margin."

What does that mean? I dunno either, but it's right there in print, so it's gotta be true.

My goodnefs, I hope you're juft being filly...

The "f" that commonly appeared in typography before the 1780s is a long form of the letter S, modelled after handwriting styles of the era. You'll never find it at the end of a word and it is sometimes paired with a small s in case of double letters, which formed a compound letter similar to the German 'ß'.

Exactly, only that this 'fake f' lacks the vertical line. And in fact, this is pretty much how the German ß evolved.

Originally, there were two different minuscule s in German (that is, in 'German' blackletter fonts), one being the one we all know that stood for a soft s (you use z for that in English), the other being that 'fake f' that stood for a sharp s (that is like your English s). However, people must have felt they had to put it extra-sharp in some words while still not as hyper-sharp as actual German z, so they combined the sharp 'fake f' with a minuscule German z that actually looks like a small 3.

All this took place way back during the Medieval Age already, so over time people forgot that it had actually been two letters such as f3, and started to interpret it as one new letter ß.

[super8camera.com]

I've asked them what they'll do with the processing machine:

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your message.

I'm afraid the machines will just be taken apart. It will not be possible to re-mount them for different technical reasons.

Alas!

We wish you anyway a good continuation with other products, which will certainly also give you great satisfaction!

Best regards


KODAK S.A.
Customer Service
Florence Presset
+41 21 6310589

and I asked about the end of Kodachrome processing:

For sure until end of June, maybe until September.

You may contact us again in 2 or 3 months, I'm sure we will have more details.

Regards

KODAK S.A.
Customer Service
Florence Presset
+41 21 6310589

[John_Pytlak]

I've asked them what they'll do with the processing machine:

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your message.

I'm afraid the machines will just be taken apart. It will not be possible to re-mount them for different technical reasons.

Alas!

We wish you anyway a good continuation with other products, which will certainly also give you great satisfaction!

Best regards


KODAK S.A.
Customer Service
Florence Presset
+41 21 6310589

and I asked about the end of Kodachrome processing:

For sure until end of June, maybe until September.

You may contact us again in 2 or 3 months, I'm sure we will have more details.

Regards

KODAK S.A.
Customer Service
Florence Presset
+41 21 6310589

The "official" date that Kodak KODACHROME film Super-8 processing will be discontinued is still August 1, 2006. It won't be any earlier. As I've posted before, moving large, older processing machines is not always feasible, as there is much support plumbing and tankage.

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/about ... me06.jhtml

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/about ... QA06.jhtml

Florence Presset manages key accounts at the Swiss lab.