Why are people buying out of date Kodachrome?

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When clearing my cupboard recently I put a batch of ancient Kodachrome Super 8 cartridges on Ebay. It sold surprisingly well.

What I want to know is what the hell are people doing with it???

Michael
 
I suppose if you collect movie cameras, you might want one or two boxes of that iconic film to accompany them. I have pretty much zero interest in 8mm, Super 8 and so on (one of my basic rules of acquisition is to stick to cameras I can buy film for reasonably easily and affordably, Ie. 35mm and 120 for me, no 126, 620, 110 etc.). But despite that, I would rather like a Bell and Howell Director Series Zoomatic like Zapruder's. And everyone knows which film Zapruder used in 1963, so...if I ever get one, I would probably want a single roll of Kodachrome, to sit next to it.

So perhaps that is it, or they are desperate enough to shoot it for black and white. Or they're terminally ignorant, or stupid, (or both?).
Cheers
Brett
 
Don't think they are interested in the film that is inside the super-8 packs. but the packs themselves can be refilled with flm that can be develloped. there aren't any new cartridges made so you have to find old ones.
 
Dralowid said:
When clearing my cupboard recently I put a batch of ancient Kodachrome Super 8 cartridges on Ebay. It sold surprisingly well. What I want to know is what the hell are people doing with it??? Michael
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jsrocket:

The op asked what people were doing with ancient Kodachrome Super 8 cartridges and that's what I was referring to. It has nothing to do with Kodachrome in other formats.
 
Spanik said:
Don't think they are interested in the film that is inside the super-8 packs. but the packs themselves can be refilled with flm that can be develloped. there aren't any new cartridges made so you have to find old ones.
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[FONT=&quot]Kodak sells the empty cartridges, which is what places like Pro8mm use to reload various films. Kodak makes Super 8 the last time I checked: Tri-X Reversal and 50D/200T/500T color negative stocks (RIP Ektachrome though).

I don't think people are buying old Kodachrome for the carts, as they are heat-welded and need to be cracked or broken apart to remove the film.

I used to shoot Super 8 Kodachrome and had a lab that would run it through their B/W reversal process just before throwing out the chemicals (due to the rem-jet) and I would say Kodachrome makes a phenomenal B/W reversal image. Super fine detail and deepest d-max I'd ever seen. IIRC it was necessary to overexpose by 1-2 stops.
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rpsawin said:
jsrocket:

The op asked what people were doing with ancient Kodachrome Super 8 cartridges and that's what I was referring to. It has nothing to do with Kodachrome in other formats.
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Nobody said anything about Kodachrome in other formats. The reasons for buying generic super 8 cartridges are obvious, but the odd/interesting thing to me is that people are buying film that can't be processed.
 
Well, having started this I will try and solve the puzzle by putting some 16mm magazine and Standard 8 Kodachrome up for sale...see whether they buy that lot too!
 
richardhkirkando said:
Nobody said anything about Kodachrome in other formats. The reasons for buying generic super 8 cartridges are obvious, but the odd/interesting thing to me is that people are buying film that can't be processed.
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If you bothered to read the link the company is offering processing services for Kodak Super8 Kodacrome.
 
Dralowid said:
Well, having started this I will try and solve the puzzle by putting some 16mm magazine and Standard 8 Kodachrome up for sale...see whether they buy that lot too!
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Keep us posted with your success, or lack thereof. I am sure I have some at the bottom of some dark drawer.
 
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