*Watch my first effort with Kodachrome HERE:* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CBD82wj1xSU.html Second Kodachrome video HERE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rkqxmMJ1MGY.html Many apologies to the Film *_Photography_* Project for mentioning them by the wrong name!
My dad was transferred to the head office in Rochester in the late 60s. We visited Kodak Park where they still make and process film, however it's the movie film that keeps them going and that may be lost as more movies are "filmed" in digital. They told us a story of trying to adjust a green dog before finding out that the dog had been covered in paint! :D
Hahaha! The original Star Trek had the same issue with a woman who had been painted green. The developing tech kept adjusting her skin tone to pink! 🤣🤣 I was in a seminar in the late 1980’s presented by Kodak. They spoke of a coming digital era, but felt the storage size issue was insurmountable. This was in the days where 128K RAM and a 40Mb hard drive was cutting edge! Kodak’s business model couldn’t adapt to the digital age. Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for sharing the video, James! I have a bunch of old film that needs to be developed. Don't know if they are still any good but I am always interested in seeing videos such as this to help me with a better understanding of developing film myself. Hopefully, one day I will get around to it. I will certainly watch your other videos on this topic.
Great video! Seeing that photo of your brick and mortar studio at the end really brought me back to the days of hanging out in my friend's camera store in the 80's. Man, do I really miss the days of mom and pop photo stores...
Thanks so much. I can't remember if I said in the video, but the building is gone now. It burned a few years back in a tragic fire. It had a great darkroom off the camera room - a custom galvanized sink, 6 feet long, two feet wide, and about 8 inches deep. Spent many evenings there developing B&W film and prints.
@@VintageInsightPhotography That's sad to hear. Sounds like you had a dream darkroom! I'm like you now, just use what's available (kitchen, laundry room, bathroom), lol. I process, scan and post a lot of old "found" super 8 and 16mm movie film. So much fun looking back at all the simpler times. Keep up the great work!!
From someone who has never developed their own film before, can I say what a crazy process that seems like...but it seems like a lot of fun as well! I definitely would like to try that someday! Too bad you could only recover three images, but I really liked the image of the weathervane, really cool and creepy! Love it! Thanks for showing this process, Jim, crazy but definitely cool!
Digital photography seems like a miracle to me. It’s the fulfillment of the promise Polaroid made. Instant images. But even better because they are duplicable, shareable, and editable. There are times I do miss having an actual darkroom, digital image development and manipulation are vastly superior to analog. As always, thanks for watching… and who knows, maybe we will develop some film together someday.
Fun experiment - I liked that second image (with the weather vane). I think I have an old roll of Kodachrome around (somewhere). If it turns up, I just may shoot it and see what I can get.
Cool! That weather vane is on our backyard shed! That’s not the graffiti covered shed in the first photo. You can’t imagine the heartbreak when I peeked at the film and it was totally black! 😖😫 Thanks for watching!
There are secret Kodachrome film development location in Los Angeles can develop K-11 K-12 and K-14 processing using original chemicals on both movie and still film and even sound film.
Arggghhh March 1989, when that film expired I just turned 17 and would have been learning about processing 35mm film at college - not Kodachrome though! Now I feel old. Great vlog Jim and a lesson in using expired film. You did really well to recover those three images.👍
This is not even a joke. Human brains, its memory of a past perception being added/combined to what you currently see (reassociative effects), are actually and in fact working this way. If you have smelled such specific chemicals for one time and it if was intense enough to leave a "specific memory" in your mind, your mind re-connects a seen pattern - along with e.g. these bottles or words like "filmdeveloper" with a former perception being associated to it and your brain then might regenerate a so-called "residual" perception of what you have only seen and you can kind of "re-smell" it along with seeing this. The same ability, the same effect resulting of this, helps us to recognize and identify even unreadable, otherwise unrecognizable, blurry, highly deformed / misoriented / fragmented things. It also works with music you are hearing e.g. Missing bass lines played with "bad playback equipment" will often become re-added by your brain while you hear it (if you know the song at least how it generally sounds like). Residual effect goes this far. Means to re-create a "memorized" perception by means of "deja-vu" (that how it is also called sometimes for some situations) you will not need the actual information being sent from external senses in full. (or the actual olfactoric input of your nose cells).It is solely a product of a combination of specifically re-generated nerve-signals-patterns. A form of memory (to which "smells" and "noises", "tastes" and "feelings, visions, perceptions of all kinds" are belonging as well).
What to do with the other rolls of film. From what I have read if film isn't stored right it looses it's sensitivity. What about overexposing the remaining film. Would that work? Just a suggestion.
What I would like to see added when you make these development videos is more emphasis on temperature control, people never having done this before are going to be in for a surprise when this is not adhered to as best as possible. Not a ding just something for future videos.
How wonderful to learn that I can develop a roll of found film! I've been wanting to but it has sat on my shelf! One roll was unexposed, so maybe I'll shoot it for fun and see what happens! mine is KR-135, would you rate that at about 100iso?
Best wishes for your old film. The original ISO (ASA) for that film was 64. I’d probably overexpose by one stop, so ISO 32. The “135” is the 35mm film size.
Base fog?! It happens to Kelly Shane Fuller too (who had gained access to chemistry specific for K-14 but close enough the original couplers), He explains in the Studio C-41 podcast that base fog can cause terrible results with color casting and minor color shifts. Expired Kodachrome film is good up to 25 years of storage in room temp controlled area (attic, closet, or basement), but storing the film in a freezer or fridge is also good for a long period of time. You should've develop for 10 minutes at HC-110B, so that you'll get a negative from Kodachrome. Happy to help...
Can this method be used with 16 mm film? I have developed 16 mm and 8 mm film at home but I just got a camera that had some old Kodachrome film in it but I can’t find much on developing as b&w.
Same here. With the current explosion of interest in Super 8mm & 16mm filmmaking, these days many, MANY old rolls of Kodachrome are being sold, and also found inside vintage movie cameras. I must have 40 or 50 exposed reels of Kodachrome that I’m going to try developing myself 🤞. So many methods are being discovered primarily because of such an abundance of this classis film stock and people’s willingness to “try anything” to get images from it.
I did this a lot around the time Dewey's stopped developing K'chrome. But I used Kafenol. Which is a forgiving developer, will develop anything in my experience. And the result? Seemed like Tri-X but softer, less contrast. I wrote it up in a blog I ran at the time, the story should be in the archives there....
I’ve heard that Kodachrome develops pretty OK in diafine. A 2 part compensating developer that can handle anything. High accuracy, punchy contrast, good detail but it’s really hard to find these days. I might try this Hc110 solution as I still have a few rolls of Kodachrome…
Best wishes for your efforts. I preferred HC-110 to the D-76. I had one roll (not vlogged) come out great. This roll was obviously exposed by something before it came my way.
@@Ivandotjpeg unfortunately, it wasn’t my roll of film and I no longer have it. For the channel, I’ve processed three rolls. Two with D-76 and this one with HC-110.
Fascinating. It seems film that old is a total crapshoot, or to paraphrase Forrest Gump, “Expired film is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”
Wait… I think you have to remove the remjet properly in order to remove the black backing. For cine film I use baking soda to remove the remjet; but some ppl said that removing the remjet for kodachorme they use sodium sulfide
Every other roll of Kodachrome I’ve developed, the remjet washed off with water. Baking soda may help, but this roll definitely has been fogged. Thanks for watching and commenting !
@@VintageInsightPhotography I haven’t even shot much color film since it was discontinued. I only shoot digital now for color- since nothing comes close
No. Unless Kodak resurrects the K-14 process, it’s gone forever. You *might* find a lab willing to develop as B&W, but because of the remjet, it would ruin any other film being developed.
I appreciate the feedback. It’s a shame Kodak discontinued the K-14 process in 2009. The last roll of Kodachrome was processed in 2011. The only way currently to process Kodachrome is using B&W chemistry.