Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Would it be possible to develop Kodachrome in color? Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 7 months ago. Active 3 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 9k times. Improve this question. Ronald Williams Ronald Williams 61 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Part of the difficulty is that Eastman Kodak no longer makes the very specific chemicals needed for others to develop Kodachrome.
With respect, whenever this comes up, I simply wonder: Why did you wait so long?! Kodachrome gets its colours from colour couplers. In the meantime, keep your film desiccated and frozen to delay the tendency for the the latent image to fade and the edges and ends to fog from environmental contaminants. Good Luck. Any updates? My dad just passed away and I found some undeveloped Kodachrome slide film Add a comment.
Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. BobT BobT 5, 18 18 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. I have had an idea. It would develop to "color", but not really. Kodachrome is developed in several steps. That means no Super8, Double8, or 16mm films. This process is expensive, and I'm the only one doing it right now. Hopefully with enough interest I can order larger chemistry amounts and drive this cost down.
Kelly-Shane shared some examples with me showing the evolution of his process, from the beginnings where he was even able to get wildly shifted color in the first place, through the refinement, and onto what he's able to do today. Check out these photos:. Saturations were low, but it was basically 'correct'. Now, I've yet to try his service myself, so this is by no means an endorsement--but I AM excited that someone has begun to crack the code of this secretive and proprietary process that has been all but lost--and you better believe I'm going straight to my film fridge after I post this to shoot what I have.
Email: photo piratelogy. It quickly became apparent that the age and storage of the rolls was playing a huge factor in the processing of the film and as more failures were produced than wins I had to begin refusing rolls while I sorted it all out again. Most recently I have began working with a corporation that has been sponsoring my work and providing lab services to help iterate through the process at a much faster rate than possible on my own.
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See Kelly-Shane Fuller's full profile and links. As a lifetime professional photolab person, I realize the scale of your undertaking. There were several machines, each one around 70 feet long, continuous processors as used in motion picture film developing. I take my hat off to you, I would not have believed it possible to do what you have done.
Awesome job man. The chemistry stuff and so on…mind blowing. The sad bit is even if you do perfect the process, and whilst it will be great for those people with undeveloped rolls, the film itself isnt returning. Even today, 40 years on, the colours are astounding especially when projected. Kodachrome was made to last.
I wonder if you have used much of, and looked at much of Kodachrome. When I posted my Kodachrome slides on Curbside Classics from a car show, back when cars had real colors, people were stunned by the colors after 48 years of storage. I was stunned since I never had prints made, nor used a projector to view them, only held in my hand and then put them away. Kelly-Shane Fuller, kudos on you efforts to recreate a dead film.
And some might say that the recent Ektachrome is even better than in the past. Some might say that, but I was recently looking at some scans of Kodachome slides that a pal of mine saved from a dumpster… they are utterly gorgeous and have a character and feel incomparable to anything else. Ekta is nice, but man do yourself a favor and look through some Kodachrome slides to refresh your brain.
They make me melt with desire and sadness. I know something about these films because I was in Japan in the Summer of on a student tour. I tried a roll or two of Fujichrome and Sakurachrome R and came away impressed. Hi, do you know if Sakurachrome can be processed E-6 like Ektachrome? I recently found some Sakurachrome super8 and want to process it at home. Quite an amazing story! So sad that Kodachrome had to go away.
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