Kodachrome After Jan. 2011

[Davideo]

It'd be interesting to see what happens to prices of Kodachrome stock on eBay after January 1, 2011 when Dwayne's no longer processes it. Will these unsold cartridges be equivalent to the value of Monopoly money? Or will people just use them as paperweights or artifacts in museum displays?

I sense some people panicking by the above statements. Just shoot before the deadline!

[super8man]

I wonder if people are still hoarding the top of the line Single 8 camera? The ZX1000 I believe (too lazy to google it).

[BAC]

I think you are mean the Fujica ZC1000. There's on on ebay right now with a starting bid of $4,900. 8O

[Nicholas Kovats]

Can you please post the eBay link re: Fujica ZC1000 (starting bid $4,900)? I cannot locate it.

Thanks.

[BAC]

Here is the link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-FUJICA-FILM-CA ... 27b63dcac4

It ended shortly after I posted about it with no bids.

[ultramarine]

the fujica is relisted...same price! that's nonsense. If it sells, then something is wrong in this world (many things actually are already). I couldn't sell mine for 500$... :?

[aj]

Well, it has the original boxing! Although I expect there are 100's of these (with boxing) in Japan itself. All in cupboards waiting until the owner has to clear the house.
The odd factor is that seller claims it was used very little. The owner left the batteries in in disappointment and seller had to repair the holder with aluminium foil. That explains, the work must be rewarded

Somebody ought to design an adapter to make it suitable to accept Super-8 cartridges. An extension ontop and a film guidance system. Probably like Moviestuff, our Roger, once built (once in a lifetime) spools ontop of a ZC1000.

Fuji could also decide to keep on producing Single-8 cartridges but then with another material in it. Not all is lost yet
In Japan Single-8 supplies are plentiful and cheap (to me/us). Much like other classic silver-based-photographic materials.

[carllooper]

I recall a talk by a Super8 fimmaker, Simon White, in the late seventies (or perhaps the early eighties). He mentioned that when the market for Super8 cameras collapsed, Canon literally dug a big hole in the ground and buried thousands of top line Canon Super8 cameras, rather than sell them for less than they were worth.

I don't know if this was an urban myth, a work of seventies performance art by a manufacturer (!) or actually true.

Has anyone else heard this story or know whether it actually happened?

Carl

[Will2]

At least the aliens that are studying our extinct culture 10,000 years from now will have access to the pinnacle of our imaging technology.

[S8 Booster]

i know for sure that Canon Norway dumped all spares and special tools for their cameras some time in the 90s. no idea if remaining cams were dumped along. this was mainly for accounting reasons, spares in stock even if obsolete will be taxed and are expensive to stock.
so goes the story with bean counters: tax or destroy.
this has happened in lots of industry sectors all over this country, an insane shame. brand new parts to the garbage tip - tons.....

i researched this some years ago in an desperate attempt to catch surplus spares and tools

shoot....

[super8man]

Yeah sadly the lawyers rule when it comes to discontinued stuff like this.

THe ZC1000, yes, never got my hands on one. Though, I have to say, the results I had on single 8 film from my Fujica Z2 pretty much kicked ass over any super 8 camera I have had. It's the filmstock superiority. Shame Kodak had to go all proprietary on us back in the day and jump off the collective research project they were on back in the early 60s. The world would have been a better place for it (sharper images, full rewinding cartridge system, easily adjustable ASA settings in camera, and slimmer, more elegant camera design.

[camera8mm]

A serious question has turned into a hijacked post.
I suspect places like rocky mountain and other labs will be able to do an occasional run but at a cost higher than what one is paying for kodachrome processing now.

[nickrapak]

I think that color processing of K-14 film is going to be up to the experimenters come 1/1/11. Rocky Mountain just sends it to Dwayne's for an obscene price or processes in B&W (if they ever process it, that is), and every other "old film lab" does the same.

[aj]

Rocky mountain lab is out of business due to bankruptcy.

Don't send films. You will never see them again :!:

Check earlier threads on this!

[mr8mm]

So, what happened to the guy in the Czech Republic that was processing Kodachrome? Seemed like he had pretty good results. Several labs are experimenting with black and white reversal Kodachrome processing. Film rescue will do it as B/W neg with dvd. The only reason I can think of to shot Kodachrome as B/W would be sound carts. I am shooting 12 year old KMA sound carts and getting beautiful results. Too bad it ends soon.

John S.