EM-26 Processing Labs?

[sickmedia]

Anybody know/recommend where I can get some Ektachrome 160 (Process EM-26) developed?

Long time reader, first time poster.


Thanks everybody in advance!

[beaunizo]

Where on the globe?

This is most affordable:
http://kpfilmlab.be/index.htm

And there is super8.nl

Don't try Rockymountain lab. They are out off business and not delivering. But still take film in.

[James E]

I've used Martin a few times. Top notch work at reasonable prices. He is an encyclopedia of super 8 knowledge! I've copied a recent email below FYI.

Martin W. Baumgarten
PLattsburgh Photographic Services
18 Elm Street
Plattsburgh, New York 12901-1827 U.S.A.
Tel: (518) 561-6312
Email: Super8mm@aol.com
Orders can also be paid via www.PayPal.com under my email name: Super8mm@aol.com

NOTE: PLEASE keep in mind is a slow one-man custom manual processing laboratory. Mail Order only.

[Processing photographic films since 1974]
--> Closed for ALL USA holidays.<--

---> Processing most old discontinued Still Photo camera & Movie camera film types. B&W Reversal/Negative, Color Reversal, cross-processing, E-6 and some others. Also doing SD Quality Film-to-Video transfers (VHS, SVHS, DVD, VCD, SVCD, MiniDV, Digital-8, AVI files. No HD Transfers at this time, sorry.): availability depends on lab workloads.

Thank you for your interest in my custom film and laboratory services!

Dear James E. Stubbs,

Thanks for writing, I'll refer to your email below in responding.

-----Original Message-----
From: James E Stubbs <james.e.s69@gmail.com>
To: super8mm <super8mm@aol.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 20, 2014 12:57 am
Subject: EM-26 process as E-6

You still alive Martin? Long time (5years) no chat.

---> A man with a sense of humor. Of course, I'm still alive, and still processing all kinds of film. I'm only an email or phone call away.


Have gotten the cameras out of the closet and am going to shoot a pile of super 8 while I still can. I have 6 carts of ELA-594 sound film for one last hurrah into super 8 sound. I have hand processed type G before using your instructions. It was badly stored but still came out with good, If but yellowed images. AFAIK all of mine has been stored cool to cold. When I get it shot, what are you charging for processing.
Thanks,
--
James E Stubbs

---> There must still be tons of unexposed frozen outdated but like new filmstock in the freezers of various film enthusiasts around the world! I know a doctor in Florida that must have over 200 carts of EK160A Sound film; and he's just one of several that I have contact with at times when they decide to shoot some and get it processed.

---> Film that has been stored FROZEN since new (or at least stored frozen since very close to it's original expiration date) must be normally exposed and normally processed. Those are in a category of their own, and sadly aside from me, there aren't too many choices for 'normal' like new processing. Spectra Film & Video($65 each) and Pro8mm($90 each) both offer processing for EM-26 films, but you'd have to check with them for what they can do if interested.

---> Film that is old, long out of date, and has NOT been stored frozen, is a gamble. Processed as normal, it will usually yield images that are too light, due to age fog, color will have shifted to mostly green. It varies based on storage history since new of course. Very old films should probably be processed as Black & White Negative. I just did some films from the 1970s and early 80s this week, and they were virtually all GREEN; no other traces of any color, and even despite adjusted processing, they were still too light. So B&W Neg is how they should've been processed for best details in the images.

---> As for your films, IF they all have similar expiration dates, and have all been stored the same.......my suggestion is to shoot one and see how it comes out. Since they have not been stored frozen, I suggest age compensated processing, but you can decide. Films that have not been stored frozen have a hard time shedding their remjet backing, and it's a chore to get it off physically by hand, one foot at a time. My ORDER FORM is attached for your information.
$28 for normal film processing for Frozen stored films and $59 for old film compensated processing. You'll have to write in the $28 rate, as there is a blank line just above the Ektachrome VNF film type. I don't list it, since the average schmo out there that has ancient film lying around in a drawer for 30 years will want to pay the lower rate, and don't understand that there is a huge difference in how the old and 'new' type films are processed.

Please NOTE, that my present inhouse film processing volume will deplete my chemistry here long before you can even send in a film (I've been processing a LOT of film that past two weeks here).
There has been a long delay in getting the Ektachrome chemistry over the past year. I hope to have the lab restocked within the next month, but it's dependant on availability of course; although I'm optimisitic.

Anyhow, let me know if you have any other questions.

Best regards,
Martin W. Baumgarten

P.S. I buy old film off eBay to test from time to time, and have my own cache of frozen since new film as well. Old film, even though best processed as B&W Neg, I'd still rather use that than not have any sound film; that way the lip synch is there without any other extra effort.
Here's some image samples of KODACHROME done as B&W Reversal:
http://s1202.photobucket.com/user/Marti ... t=3&page=1
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