mooge
Well-known
divewizard
perspicaz
The access to the chemicals will be the real problem even if the machine can be revived.
raytoei@gmail.com
Veteran
if there is a will, there is a way albeit an expensive one...
GSNfan
Well-known
When the film becomes more important than the photographs it creates, we have a problem.
I think enough is enough with Kodachrome mourning. Just my opinion.
I think enough is enough with Kodachrome mourning. Just my opinion.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
The question I have to ask is ... will the lamented departure of Kodachrome be as mind numbingly annoying as the anticipated arrival of the Fuji X100?
Doubt it!
Doubt it!
mwooten
light user
It's crawling away from its own wake.
jarski
Veteran
good luck for the guy trying. hope he gets knowledgeable volunteers from Internet to help, otherwise its probably too big task.
bigeye
Well-known
If you don't liek the X100, you don't have to read this... well, the other 13 threads on it. (OMG, I just got a tweet!)
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mto'brien
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good luck to him, i admire the die-hard attitude. i'm all for it, really.
just one question: the film, where is he gonna get and keep getting the film to run through the machine to make this all worthwhile? i know, this is just a detail to someone who is obsessed with an idea, but seriously, does he have a 1000 rolls in a freezer? are there even 1000 rolls left in existence? right now there are about 15 or so rolls on ebay. oddly, some have bids on them!
just one question: the film, where is he gonna get and keep getting the film to run through the machine to make this all worthwhile? i know, this is just a detail to someone who is obsessed with an idea, but seriously, does he have a 1000 rolls in a freezer? are there even 1000 rolls left in existence? right now there are about 15 or so rolls on ebay. oddly, some have bids on them!
ZlatkoBatistich
Established
I am inclined to agree. It was great in its day, as a slide film anyway. But the reason we no longer have it is that sales were too low to make it worthwhile for the manufacturer. So I don't feel such a sense of loss for something that photographers largely weren't interested in anyway. I think I last used Kodachrome in the 80's.
antiquark
Derek Ross
Let It Die Already!!!!!
bwcolor
Veteran
Now, that is a project. I give him a better chance at making it work than the folks trying to get DNA out of the stone remains of dinosaurs.
Spyro
Well-known
LOL what does a film have to do to die in peace
apodeictic
Established
From an archival standpoint, it sort of is in a way. The loss of Kodachrome is the loss of the most archivally stable colour material ever created. The images captured on Kodachrome whether "important" or not will far outlast those captured on other film. In a certain sense that makes them really important- and as of January, a finite resource.
sanmich
Veteran
I think the chemicals are the problem.
If it wasn't, my guess is that Dwayne would have been much more flexible on the deadline...
If it wasn't, my guess is that Dwayne would have been much more flexible on the deadline...
Sparrow
Veteran
The question I have to ask is ... will the lamented departure of Kodachrome be as mind numbingly annoying as the anticipated arrival of the Fuji X100?
Doubt it!
.... I bet the X100 has a Kodachrome setting somewhere in a sub-menu ....
dmr
Registered Abuser
I've been following that guy (I assume it's a guy) and his adventure closely! I think it's a way cool grassroots project! I wish him the best of luck! I'm sure cheering him on.
On the Kodachrome Project they had some photos of him hauling the machine away on a trailer. I guess he literally saved the thing from the scrap yard.
He also seems to have some very competent people helping with the chemistry and the like. The three colo(u)r developers appear to be the tough part.
On the Kodachrome Project they had some photos of him hauling the machine away on a trailer. I guess he literally saved the thing from the scrap yard.
He also seems to have some very competent people helping with the chemistry and the like. The three colo(u)r developers appear to be the tough part.
Pickett Wilson
Veteran
Well, if the "new Kodachrome" looks like the "new Polaroid," he just needs to bury the equipment right now.
btgc
Veteran
There are loads of Kodachrome still floating aroung, and mind you those who didn't catch last train to Dwaynes.
For some time machine would run non-stop, happen he set-up process.
For some time machine would run non-stop, happen he set-up process.
imokruok
Well-known
I think this is exactly what's going to happen. The knowledge isn't in the machine, it's in the industrial process for the film and the chemicals. It will take him years to recreate that to a usable level, much less to the level of control that Kodak had by the time it was being manufactured in mass quantities.
Like the new Polaroid, I think it's great for a project - but as a product? It would take a miracle for one hobbyist to recreate all of the processes that likely hundreds of engineers honed and perfected over decades. Yes, the patent is public and was given up by Kodak, but it's not a how-to manual.
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