----- Original Message ----- From: "Thor Legvold" <tlegvold@xxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <rolleiusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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Rollei List
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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