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I recently bought a camera on ebay and it still had film in it. It is a 1952 35mm. The film says Kodachrome X color slide film, 20 exposures, asa 64. daylight or blue flash. The cartridge is yellow and red with white end caps.

Can anyone tell me what year this film could be from? Also, is Kodachrome developed anywhere anymore? I hope nobody has opend the back of the camera because the last shot was taken and it was never rewound into the cartridge.

So when I got it I noticed the supply side turning when I advanced and realize there was film in it. I then rewound it back into the cartridge and opend the back to remove the cartridge. It may be interesting photos on there! Anyone like found film and can you please advise? Thanks
 
You likely cant get it processed color unless you want to shell out something like 250$. Some guy was processing this stuff in Australia or something at that price. You can however get it sent to labs that can do it in BW. Even though its a color film. I would go that route.
 
ZF1 said:
You likely cant get it processed color unless you want to shell out something like 250$. Some guy was processing this stuff in Australia or something at that price. You can however get it sent to labs that can do it in BW. Even though its a color film. I would go that route.
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what process do they use for that?
 
Most any B&W developer will work with Kodachrome but you will have a mask of yellow (if I recall correctly) since the B&W chemistry does not contain the bleaching agent that Kodachrome process used. This is fine for scanning though, you'll just get a reduced contrast image.

As for processing at a lab, the Kodachrome has a Rem-Jet backing and it will foul up roller processors, E-6 processors and leave sludge in chemistry. I've had to clean up this mess when someone loaded K film into the machines I was maintaining and it will stop production completely as the Rem-Jet clogs filters, deposits on rollers and is very hard to remove from chemistry tubes.

You might want to just process it single-batch in whatever developer you have handy then throw away all the chemistry that you use with that film since the Rem-Jet backing can stick around and leave black deposits on your future development.

Phil Forrest
 
68degrees said:
...The film says Kodachrome X color slide film, 20 exposures, asa 64. daylight or blue flash. The cartridge is yellow and red with white end caps.
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Kodachrome-X, aka KX, would date from the early '60s to the early '70s. It should list the process number. I believe it would be Process K-12 which is very different from the Process K-14 that replaced it and was used until recently. Kodak stopped making K-12 chemicals in the late '70s or early '80s.

Processing KX in the newer K-14 chemistry unmodified will result in a piece of clear plastic; all the emulsion will be dissolved.
 
Dwig said:
Kodachrome-X, aka KX, would date from the early '60s to the early '70s. .
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man id love to see the images on this found film and post them here. I have ID-11, stop, fixer and photoflo here. They were talking about a antihalation coating that must first be washed off, then developed and then finally a black coating must be removed with baking soda or something . You end up with a Yellow negative. I need times and specifics if theres any chance of pulling this off.
 
68degrees said:
what about ID11 would that produce any kind of image?
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Don't know, I've never tried it. The nice thing about Diafine is there's really no time. It's just 5 minutes in solution A and five minutes in solution B (I gave it extra time due to the age of the film).

Rodinal stand developed might work too. I don't remember if I've tried that in the past or not.

The one thing I do remember is that the film came out of the tank completely dark. There was a thick dark coating on the film that came off with light finger pressure under running water. After the coating came off, there were (thin) images on the film.
 
As above, I used KodachromeX in the early 60s, but there was also Kodachrome64. I can't remember which was first or if one was overseas version. The first 'modern' Kodachrome was called Kodachrome, and had ASA 10. Then there was Kodachrome II, ASA 25. After that there was either 64 or X, and that was definitely in the early 60s
 
ZF1 said:
You likely cant get it processed color unless you want to shell out something like 250$. Some guy was processing this stuff in Australia or something at that price. You can however get it sent to labs that can do it in BW. Even though its a color film. I would go that route.
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Have you heard more on this guy in Australia? Im in Aus and have a few rolls of Kodachrome to shoot, would love to know more.
 
Not to burst anyone's bubble but not knowing the exact history of this roll of film found in your camera you just might be chasing a wild dream...
You don't know if it's been exposed or if it has how many times or even if it was in the camera and someone somewhere opened the back exposing the whole roll...
If you're really wanting to see if there are images find the cheapest way to do that...I wouldn't spend too much on what if...
Good luck...I hope you do come up with something...even if you just learn something new...
 
charjohncarter said:
As above, I used KodachromeX in the early 60s, but there was also Kodachrome64. I can't remember which was first or if one was overseas version. The first 'modern' Kodachrome was called Kodachrome, and had ASA 10. Then there was Kodachrome II, ASA 25. After that there was either 64 or X, and that was definitely in the early 60s
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Kodachrome 64 is a much newer film than the KX it replaced and used a different, newer process.

"Kodachrome" covers several versions using several processes. The last was ASA 10 and the process was K-10. The new and improved Kodachrome-II at ASA 25 introduced the K-12 process. It was later joined by the "super speed" Kodachrome X at ASA 64. When Kodak rev'd the process to K-14 in the early '70s the replacements for KII and KX acquired their ISO (nee ASA) speed numbers as part of their name becoming Kodachrome 25 (KM) and Kodachrome 64 (KR).
 
Jubb Jubb said:
Have you heard more on this guy in Australia? Im in Aus and have a few rolls of Kodachrome to shoot, would love to know more.
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He just did as a hobby/proving point. Go to APUG.org in the color film section, there is the thread about the matter.
It also have a thread as to process Kodachrome in BW!
 
Rhodes said:
He just did as a hobby/proving point. Go to APUG.org in the color film section, there is the thread about the matter.
It also have a thread as to process Kodachrome in BW!
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Nice thanks. I dont have my hopes up anymore, I certainly dont have ideas of beautiful color slides any more. If I get some usable B&w image I would be happy.
 
Dwig said:
Kodachrome 64 is a much newer film than the KX it replaced and used a different, newer process.

"Kodachrome" covers several versions using several processes. The last was ASA 10 and the process was K-10. The new and improved Kodachrome-II at ASA 25 introduced the K-12 process. It was later joined by the "super speed" Kodachrome X at ASA 64. When Kodak rev'd the process to K-14 in the early '70s the replacements for KII and KX acquired their ISO (nee ASA) speed numbers as part of their name becoming Kodachrome 25 (KM) and Kodachrome 64 (KR).
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Thanks, I was just using the stuff and never thought about history. So again thanks for the good explanation.
 
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