[rollei_list] Re: K-14 processing USA bought film in Europe
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:13:07 -0800
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From: "Thor Legvold" <tlegvold@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:32 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] K-14 processing USA bought film in
Europe
After browsing around FleaBay earlier, I found a lot of K64
in 120 I'd
really like to buy. However, it's in the US, which means
probably no
preåaid processing mailers. I send all my 35mm K64 to the
national
Kodak headquarters who forwards it to Switzerland for
processing.
Usually I get it back in just over a week (either they're
super
effiecient, or I'm the only one using them).
If I buy US film, how can I have it processed in Europe? And
at what
price? Does anyone know? I'd love to shoot K64 in 120 again
:-), it's a
really nice alternative to Velvia when you absolutely don't
want the
super-saturated look.
Cheers,
Thor
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AFAIK, K-14 processing for 120 film has not been
available for several years. Kodak required its processing
labs to buy new machines. These worked for 35mm only. I
think there is now only one lab even for 35mm film.
I used a lot of Kodachrome and never found it to have the
gaudy look it did in the 1940's. Fuji transparency film is
highly saturated and may give you what you want. I think
Kodachrome's main virtue is its very stable dark storage.
That makes it attractive for stock photos.
Kodachrome is a curiosity: it was developed really as a
work-around because Kodak could not find a method of
anchoring the color couplers in the emulsion. Instead Kodak
put the couplers in the color developers and relied on a
complex processing method to isolate the colors to the right
layers. Agfa beat Kodak to the punch in developing a method
of anchoring but the overall quality of early Agfa color
film was not very good. Kodak devised another method of
anchoring the coupler molecules a few years later and used
it for Kodacolor.
Kodak began to make incorporated coupler films for
professional use after WW-2 but the quality of the reversal
film did not come up to Kodachrome. However, Kodachrome in
sheet film sizes was discontinued.
IMO, it took decades for incorporated coupler color films
to come up to the standard set by Kodachrome but I think
they were. In any case, 120 Kodachrome is a complete orphan.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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