On Sep 30, 2009, at 12:13, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "P. J. Alling"
I was digging through a box of, well junk really, and came across
an unexposed roll of ISO 64 120 size Kodachrome. I'm not even sure
when Kodak or their agents stopped processing Kodachrome in 120.
It's sad really. Kodachrome was the film that I used for
"important" color photographs. If it wasn't important enough an E6
or color negative film would be good enough. This roll is more
than 10 years out of date. If it were in a pristine box I might
just put in a display case and leave it there, but the box was
pretty much destroyed and for some reason I had torn open the
internal wrapping so the outer part of the roll is a bit grungy as
well. I know that I could shoot it and process it as B&W but it
should really be developed to brilliant color. So I have this roll
of film, that I would have used to shoot something very special,
that I now don't want to shoot at all...
And at the other end of the spectrum, I've still got 6 Kodachrome 64
in 110 cartridges tucked away in the freezer.
I was at my parents' house over the weekend, and my dad showed me a
circa-1950-something half-used (!!) box of K-64 8mm movie film.
It probably does not contain the latent images anymore after approx 50
years... but the box sure is pretty. He said "it's probably worth
more in this state than if I sent it in to get it developed - if I
could even send it anywhere".
He did note that the cost of the film included processing by Kodak.
So Kodak's got that free money from my grandfather.
-Charles
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