portable kodachrome machine

[alan doyle]

i am thinking of buying this,since kodak will be scrapping it soon...
any thoughts anyone?????
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer ... ndex.shtml...
if i can get it cheap,i can then buy up the worlds supply of k40 s8..
and when you people need the finest grain possible,you can come to uncle alan..

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

Your link is dead. :?

[sunrise]

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer ... ndex.shtml

Alan's keyboard seems to stuck at the dot key...

michael

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

Ah, pretty obvious if I just would have looked at the adress..... :oops:

[sunrise]

Alan,

I like the idea of you setting up a development service to keep K-40 alive in Super8.

However, the consequences could be that people still shoot Kodachrome and do not embrace the new 64T, making Kodak less willing to introduce new filmtypes in the small gauge format.

michael

[FilmIs4Ever]

Where are you located? Shit forget it. If you're anywhere in the US, or Europe, I'll put in a $1000 stake in this machine. I am dead serious. You get Kodak to sell you a K-Lab, that's what my starting stake is. If you need more, I'll see what I can do. Kodachrome is the ORIGINAL color film, and I sure-as-hell am not going to stand by and watch it die.

[LastQuark]

I don't think these are equipped for S8. It might cost more to modify it to run S8. Better check it out first.

[monobath]

Alan,

I like the idea of you setting up a development service to keep K-40 alive in Super8.

However, the consequences could be that people still shoot Kodachrome and do not embrace the new 64T, making Kodak less willing to introduce new filmtypes in the small gauge format.

michael

There can only be one color reversal film? Weren't there more in the recent past, the now discontinued Ektachrome films? What about negative films? Only one? No, I don't think so.

I think that increasing the number of stocks will tend to encourage more S8 use, not less.

[Alex]

Two years ago, I talked to the creator of those machines to get his opinion on whether or not they could process Super-8. I seem to recall he said no, because there was not enough agitation. He may have given a more complex answer, but basically, it seemed his answer was no for super-8 processing.

I will start a new topic asking how many countries might have some support for a more economical Kodachrome processor.

[matt5791]

I would imagine one of those machines comes in at around the £100,000 - £500,000 mark?

This is based on the fact that the new super8 processor installed by Todd AO in London aparently cost over £100,000.

Illustrates how many carts need to be processed to juystify this kind of capital expenditure, especially when you throw in skilled labour, square feet, and that there is also a cost of sales in terms of chemical purchase.

There might be a need for marketing on top of this too.

Of course all of this is irrelevant if there is some film philanthropist out there wondering what to do with a spare £?m

Matt

[Alex]

Or the facility offers film to tape transfers, and suddenly a 10 cart processing job costing 100 dollars nets an additional 250-500 dollars for high end transfer to video.

[matt5791]

Or the facility offers film to tape transfers, and suddenly a 10 cart processing job costing 100 dollars nets an additional 250-500 dollars for high end transfer to video.

You mean run a K40 processing operation as a loss leader?

are you joking? I can understand supermarkets and DIY stores selling loaves of bread and hand saws as loss leaders in the hope that the people who buy will top up their basket with other items with decent margins, but installing and running a film processing operation, let alone a Kodachrome one as a loss leader unfortunately is not ever going to happen.

As I said, the film philanthropist is required.....

Matt

[Alex]

Maybe you should tell that to Spectra Film and Video. Spectra Film and Video will process Pro-8mm negative film for free if you do the video transfer with them.

How many times Matt, how many times are you going to make inane comments against my posts without acknowledging your previous stupid remarks against my posts?

Just curious.

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

Maybe you should tell that to Spectra Film and Video. Spectra Film and Video will process Pro-8mm negative film for free if you do the video transfer with them.

How many times Matt, how many times are you going to make inane comments against my posts without acknowledging your previous stupid remarks against my posts?

Just curious.

It is a different thing. To have a filmprocessing facility as a front for the transferring business just sounds crazy to me.

I bet the reason they will process Pro-8mm films for free is that they hope they can kick Pro8 out of business, or that it is the only way people would send their already process paid films to them. I bet there aren´t too many around who willingly pays the processing fee twice.

Why else would they only process Pro-8mm films for free, why not Kodak?

[matt5791]

Maybe you should tell that to Spectra Film and Video. Spectra Film and Video will process Pro-8mm negative film for free if you do the video transfer with them.

How many times Matt, how many times are you going to make inane comments against my posts without acknowledging your previous stupid remarks against my posts?

Just curious.

All I was saying is that spending £100,000 - £500,000 on a processing facility without knowing it will support itself would be insane - What is so odd about that?

I would bet that the Spectra people are doing (or hoping to do) a lot of paid processing with their gear.

Anyway this does not address the Kodachrome issue that a lot of people shoot to project the camera original, and that (in my own personal opinion) Kodachrome does not transfer all that well.

Matt