no_surrender wrote:
Thank you EBH for the reply, your expertise is much appreciated.
The film that came out of the camera is:
Kodachrome 200, Process K-14, 35mm Film for Color Slides, 36 Exp, KL 36 * 200/24°
My uncle gave me the camera along with two lenses, 6 filters, a flash, awesome leather bag, and really cool old school Canon strap. He said the last time he remembers the camera being in use was when my cousin was using it for an art class in college while she was pursuing her journalism degree, I think. My uncle said he used the camera when he taught music and would use the film somehow on a projector with music notes or something. I'm hoping to find out more when we meet for lunch tomorrow to celebrate my grandmother's 95th birthday.
The unopened film is:
Kodachrome 25, KM 135-36 Film for Color Slides, ISO 25/15°, 35mm and expires 10/1996
Not sure what any of the numbers mean besides ISO 25, but not sure how that correlates to digital ISO, in which my 30D only goes down to ISO 100. I know the 5D Mark II can be set to ISO 50, but never heard of ISO 25 before.
Do you have any recommendations for what film to use in the future while I explore this camera? I really don't know much at all about 35mm besides I used to use a point & shoot a long time ago and didn't know what film to buy so I always bought 800 because I thought it was supposed to be "better", so naive!
I suppose I'll send the film to BRI, unless other recommendations change my mind. Thanks again!
oh man Kodachrome
sadly the best you do is get a super, duper specialized developing lab to give you a black and white version of it
the last chance for color development was last year
maybe if you re super rich you can buy the formula from kodak for the chemicals and pay a company to mix them for you and then pay another company to build another Kodachrome processing machine from blueprints (if all the old ones have been scrapped already and the design plans still exist, otherwise you'll have to hire some engineers full time for a good while to redesign it) although it may end up about 20 million a roll or something like that to process
it was sad to see kodachrome go
i have this nasty feeling that i still have one undeveloped roll somewhere myself
EB-1 wrote:
A negative (and to a lesser extent) a slide is like a RAW file, generally holding far more information than a print. You might want to buy a book about photographic printing. Even if you will not be printing yourself, you will be able to speak knowledgeably with the people at the labs.
Thinking about 135 film just makes me cringe now. I'm sooo past that era.
EBH
EBH, I've heard good things about the 3 book series by Ansel Adams, but not sure if it covers printing. Any recommendations?
As far as the slide film, specifically the Kodachrome, I don't think it's worth the hassel, time, money to get developed. I am a little interested as to what's on the film, but since I didn't shoot it I'll have to ask my cousin if she thinks there might be anything on there she may want. Otherwise, I guess I'll store it somewhere for a rainy day.
Peter Figen wrote:
Well, there is (or was) something called Farmer's Reducer, which would attempt to reduce the density of overexposed black and white negs, and something called Intensifier, which attempted to increase the density of black and white negs. Then, if you used "professional" black and white films, you could also manually retouch with retouching pencils or even an etching knife if you were brave enough. You could also bleach, spot (like spotting a print) and even airbrush a neg. For color transparencies, you could use Kodak Retouching Dyes to do an overall wash to affect global color correction and use the same dyes to spot color selected areas. Of course, you'd lose your dye job if your film was fluid mounted on a drum scanner. You could also dupe color transparencies and change color and density during the dupe exposure. You could make color transparencies directly from color negs by using a special film called VPF that I'm sure is no longer made. These are all post development manipulations that were all done in the analog era. I'm sure I'm leaving some stuff out, but you get the general picture.
These days a good scanner is all you need to digitize your film images and have at 'em in Photoshop. It's amazing just how good film still is today. ...Show more →
Peter, thank you for the detailed explanation. Unfortunately, at this time I'm not very educated on dark room processing/developing of film so it kind of went over my head. I'm still trying to learn and may possibly try my hand one day at developing 35mm film. When that time comes, I'll definitely re-read your post and hopefully then it will make sense.
campyone wrote:
Processing normal b&w film isn't that difficult but trying to process Kodachrome as b&w film yourself would IMHO be a nightmare. Those photographs would have to be mighty important before I'd even begin to try that and I processed everything from 35mm color negative film to 35mm, medium format, 4x5, 5x7, and 8x10 b&w film in my darkroom for years.
If you're looking for someone to process b&w film and haven't been able to find anyone, go to www.largeformatphotography.info and ask there. Even though your film isn't large format, someone there will be able to give you the name of a lab to use or will offer to do it for you. ...Show more →
skibum5 wrote:
oh man Kodachrome
sadly the best you do is get a super, duper specialized developing lab to give you a black and white version of it
the last chance for color development was last year
maybe if you re super rich you can buy the formula from kodak for the chemicals and pay a company to mix them for you and then pay another company to build another Kodachrome processing machine from blueprints (if all the old ones have been scrapped already and the design plans still exist, otherwise you'll have to hire some engineers full time for a good while to redesign it) although it may end up about 20 million a roll or something like that to process
it was sad to see kodachrome go
i have this nasty feeling that i still have one undeveloped roll somewhere myself ...Show more →
