JTK
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Last time the numbers were posted, Dwayne's was still processing over 1000 rolls per day.
If true, that's almost nothing. Minilabs in drugstores are said to need 200 rolls/day to survive.
Last time the numbers were posted, Dwayne's was still processing over 1000 rolls per day.
If true, that's almost nothing. Minilabs in drugstores are said to need 200 rolls/day to survive.
What are folks shooting Kodachrome doing with it these days? Back in the 60's and 70's we were big on slide shows, and of course it was the gold standard for magazine reproduction, but I've not seen anyone with a projector in years and magazines want digital now.. It's difficult to scan well, so I would think color negative film would be easier. I know I stopped shooting it to any degree years ago. Just kind of curious.
Last time the numbers were posted, Dwayne's was still processing over 1000 rolls per day.
If true, that's almost nothing. Minilabs in drugstores are said to need 200 rolls/day to survive.
I think that 1000/day number (I read that somewhere too) is just for Dwayne's Kodachrome lines. They also do E6 and C41. It looks like the three rolls of E6 (120) I had developed last month via Walmart's send-out service all went to Dwayne's. If they have a contract with Walmart then that's a lot of volume to help keep the Kodachrome stuff going.
BTW, that 200 rolls/day number seems a bit high to me. I don't know, though. I can't imagine the local Walmart, Target, Sam's Club, Walgreens, Rite-Aid, etc. all doing that much film every day.
The archival aspect isn't going to mean anything when there is no equipment to read a piece of Kodachrome film as anything other than a 24x36mm curiosity.
Dante
My best advise, if you love K64, is to shoot shoot shoot. The more film they sell the more likely it is to stick around longer...
I think this: http://www.kodachromeproject.com/ is an interesting link.
I'm going to disagree here - I'm currently using a desktop scanner to get old kodachromes into flickr, etc and make small prints and it's fine quality. I assume there will always be flatbed scanners as long as there is printed material, which I think there will be for a very long time.
There are so many negatives and slides in existence that there will be a market for equipment to scan this media. I was in Sears recently, they still sell turntables in the electronics section.
I have never shot Kodachrome but looking at B&H they have 2 films listed. Kodachrome 64 and a Kodachrome 64 professional. Besides the professional being $4.00 higher whats the difference?
They all scan on my V700 with a slight magenta cast (as I have mentioned earlier). It's easy to correct post-scan, but I can't correct it by a scanner setting because it's slightly different in each shot. It seems to depend on the actual colour balance of each one - the more blue sky in the shot, the greater the overall magenta cast. But it's easy enough to correct afterwards, so it doesn't bother me all that much.
As I said, I don't have that option - from the UK they're pre-paid and there are no processing options.If you don't plan to show them in a slide projector, just ask that they not be mounted.
That would be just one more chore too much, and puts KR just too far away from the convenience of E6.Or get some plastic slide mounts and mount them yourself.
The magenta cast I see is not visible in the slides themselves when viewed with a slide viewer or projected, so the processing is just fine - it is only there on the scans. And it's there even when the exposures are perfect.I used to shoot a lot of K200 and it would go pink or magenta if your exposure was off by a very small amount, especially in low light situations. That's the big drawback to Kodachrome. Exposures have to be dead on, because of the limited dynamic range.
But of course it can also be the processing.