Mark Wood
Well-known
Although I've no experience of their work, I'd be tempted to contact "Process C22" in the UK:
http://www.processc22.co.uk/
From what I recall, they process old Kodachrome as B&W.
http://www.processc22.co.uk/
From what I recall, they process old Kodachrome as B&W.
Mark Wood
Well-known
I should have added that Process C22 is just the name of the company and they claim to be able to process essentially any film (including all types of Kodachrome), not just C22!
dmr
Registered Abuser
I'm not a wet darkroom person at all, but I have been fascinated with Kodachrome and its process. There are people who have processed it as B&W, but the big thing is removing the rem-jet anti-halation backing. Once this is done you can do it in regular B&W chemicals. Modern Kodachrome is 3 B&W layers together with some filters and such.
The Kodachrome process is amazing! No, dyes are not added like you would pour Rit into a washing machine, they are formed chromogenically but one layer at a time, three developer cycles, two re-exposures to color light. I posted a link to a good technical description of the process a while back.
As for cross-processing E6 as C41, I had to do that by necessity, kinda, last fall. Here's the results:
http://omababe.blogspot.com/2007/10/cross-processing-bean.html
On the same day I also did some Kodachrome:
http://omababe.blogspot.com/2007/12/chicago-in-kodachrome.html
The Kodachrome process is amazing! No, dyes are not added like you would pour Rit into a washing machine, they are formed chromogenically but one layer at a time, three developer cycles, two re-exposures to color light. I posted a link to a good technical description of the process a while back.
As for cross-processing E6 as C41, I had to do that by necessity, kinda, last fall. Here's the results:
http://omababe.blogspot.com/2007/10/cross-processing-bean.html
On the same day I also did some Kodachrome:
http://omababe.blogspot.com/2007/12/chicago-in-kodachrome.html