I saw this on another photo-forum today and decided to report this news here.
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier. ... ocale=true
Kodak To Discontinue Kodachrome.
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Oh well...just another reason not to bother with Kodak...
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Here are some images from the 1940`s taken on Kodachrome using the 4"x5" inch size film format.
http://www.shorpy.com/4x5-large-format-kodachromes
http://www.shorpy.com/4x5-large-format-kodachromes
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Probably won't bother with other Kodak transparency films. I have used Fuji Astia (once) and it seemed pretty good.
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I have been GIVEN 9 cassettes of K200 dated 2003--- tried one,sent off to Switzerland and got slides back from USA - result -- slightly LIGHT but colour good.. maybe I will rate it at 250ASA next time.
Got COMPUTERISED and 'slightly Digitised Pentax K10D' but FILM STILL RULES !
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Reasons to bother with Kodak:Ornello wrote:Oh well...just another reason not to bother with Kodak...
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi ... path=13400
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi ... path=13401
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi ... path=13328
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http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi ... path=13363
I use a wide range of films from Adox, Foma, Ilford, etc, but I always have yellow boxes in my film fridge as well. Kodak drives the market, for better or worse, and we do ourselves no favors by abandoning it.
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I am familiar with all of those materials. I prefer Ilford and Fuji B&W films (though I have not tried the new T-Max 400). Fuji Neopan 400 and Acros 100 are my films of choice currently, but as I said I have not tried the new T-Max 400.foolscape wrote:Reasons to bother with Kodak:Ornello wrote:Oh well...just another reason not to bother with Kodak...
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi ... path=13400
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi ... path=13401
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi ... path=13328
and
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professi ... path=13363
I use a wide range of films from Adox, Foma, Ilford, etc, but I always have yellow boxes in my film fridge as well. Kodak drives the market, for better or worse, and we do ourselves no favors by abandoning it.
I used to use Kodachrome 25 almost exclusively for color film.
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It is a shame to see kodachrome 64 go. another victim of the "instant gratification" era. i have seen it going for outrageous prices on the "bay" already.
but, refresh my memory, please. didn't agfa at one time sell a 64 chrome that had to be processed by them? i seem to recall that it had color at least equal to, if not better than the kodak 64
Jim
but, refresh my memory, please. didn't agfa at one time sell a 64 chrome that had to be processed by them? i seem to recall that it had color at least equal to, if not better than the kodak 64
Jim
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I remember the Agfa 64. It was an E-6 film, if memory serves. I only shot a few rolls of this, but it was an interesting film. Kodachrome tends tends to have a bias to red, Ektachrome to blue and yellow, but the Agfa had a bias toward BROWN of all colors. It was interesting if given the right subject. Pity that these and other films are now gone.
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Agfa had its own process for decades, dating back to 1936, a process which which was distinctly different from Ektachrome E-2, E-3, E-4, or E-6. They were not compatible. The Agfachrome of the 1970s was ASA50, then 64. I shot a lot of it in 1969-70 or so. It had lovely colors (especially purples) but was quite coarse-grained for ASA 50. Around 1981 or so Agfa switched to E-6 process-compatible materials and introduced 50, 100, and 200 ASA films. They also introduced C-41-compatible negative materials around the same time.Jim Appleyard wrote:I remember the Agfa 64. It was an E-6 film, if memory serves. I only shot a few rolls of this, but it was an interesting film. Kodachrome tends tends to have a bias to red, Ektachrome to blue and yellow, but the Agfa had a bias toward BROWN of all colors. It was interesting if given the right subject. Pity that these and other films are now gone.
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For a while Kodak had E-3 and E-4 films, with limited compatibility between them. You could run E-4 films (Ektachrome-X, High Speed Ektachrome, High Speed Ektachrome Type B) through E-3 chemistry, but you could not run E-3 films (which were pro emulsions in 120 and sheet form, ASA 32 I believe, daylight and tungsten)) through E-4; E-4 was a higher-temperature process and the E-3 films would reticulate if that was done. Once the E-3 chemistry was used to process E-4 films, you could not use that chemistry for E-3 films.
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Yep. That seems to be right. I think I still have some slides around somewhere by Agfa. Will scout around tonite and if I find them, will take a look under a magnifier.
Jim
Jim