Hello:
My name is Jeff, I'm actually a still photojournalist but I have picked up shooting some Super 8 for fun. I collect other people's home movies on eBay, but I also want to shoot more of my own this summer. Last summer I shot my first movie on Super 8 with a B&H 670/XL. I made a movie of a tubing trip on the Manistee River -- tubing is when a bunch of people float down the river in tire inner tubes and drink a lot. I figure, it's so easy to find Super 8 cameras at thrift stores that I might as well risk dropping it in the water, etc. The movie turned out great.
I have a question.
I sent two exposed films in PK-59 mailers to Kodak Processing in Fair Lawn, NJ. One, the tubing trip, came back processed. The other one, which is Kodachrome II Movie Film Type A, came back unprocessed with a note saying they don't do that. Does that mean I should send the Kodachrome II to Duane's? Also, I was not very smart and was not paying attention to what the other roll was, so I assume it was Ektachrome, because they processed that one, but not the other one. Does that make sense?
Thanks for your help,
Jeff
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K II
As far as I am aware , Kodachrome II requires some rather nasty chemicals in order to process it, which are no longer available. However it may be possible to process it in alternative chemistry - the result might not be very good, but at least you would be able to see your footage.
Someone else might have other ideas.
Matt
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Someone else might have other ideas.
Matt
Birmingham UK
Re: K II
As I understand it, kodachrome is actuallty a black and white film with extra startch based layers that provide the colour through some wierd process.matt5791 wrote:As far as I am aware , Kodachrome II requires some rather nasty chemicals in order to process it, which are no longer available. However it may be possible to process it in alternative chemistry - the result might not be very good, but at least you would be able to see your footage.
Someone else might have other ideas.
Matt
Birmingham UK
It's possible to develop KII but only as black and white because the kodachrome process was upgraded from K12 to K14.
Sadly it also has a rem-jet backing which can be hard to get off, but it is possible.
Getting the KII processed will probably be expensive tho, you might be better just getting some new process paid K40, it might be cheaper than just paying for the processing!
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The developed roll was either old Ektachrome or Kodachrome
Kodak only develops those two types of film using a PK59 envelope. I believe you can look at the print on the perf edge of the film to determine. Someone else can probably check to tell you what to look for before I get home and have a chance. (My information MAY be out of date: Although the PK59 envelope says type G film can be processed, I heard a rumour they strictly do Kodachrome (K14 process) film now.)
The lab in the U.S. for your old Kodachrome II stock is http://www.rockymountainfilm.com/kiimovie.htm. As the other members indicated, this will only process to black and white now.
Sending the film to Dwaynes directly will not help. They only do K14 processing. Your old film is K12.
The lab in the U.S. for your old Kodachrome II stock is http://www.rockymountainfilm.com/kiimovie.htm. As the other members indicated, this will only process to black and white now.
Sending the film to Dwaynes directly will not help. They only do K14 processing. Your old film is K12.
What type
It will say Kodachrome along hte perfs if it's that. I don't know what it will say if it's Ektachrome 160G. The contemporary Ektachrome will say 7240 along the perf, after the spec number of it's 16mm big brother, but that's not processed by Kodak, so good bet it was Kodachrome.