Super 8 Kodak K40
Super 8 Kodak K40
My mother-in-law phoned me yesterday to see if I could help (she's 90 miles away so I'm relaying her message and haven't actually seen this for myself).
It seems that she was clearing out some cupboards and came across some reels of Super 8 cine film, including one which apparently hasn't been processed yet. The markings on the box/reel/whatever are:
Kodachrome 40 Movie Film Type A. Super 8 Cartridge. K40
Anyone know where she can get it processed please?
Cheers,
sorcerer
PS, just in case it makes a difference, perhaps I should have said that I'm in Preston, Lancashire and MIL is in Carlisle.
It seems that she was clearing out some cupboards and came across some reels of Super 8 cine film, including one which apparently hasn't been processed yet. The markings on the box/reel/whatever are:
Kodachrome 40 Movie Film Type A. Super 8 Cartridge. K40
Anyone know where she can get it processed please?
Cheers,
sorcerer
PS, just in case it makes a difference, perhaps I should have said that I'm in Preston, Lancashire and MIL is in Carlisle.
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Kodak do not process it at all any more.
They refer all US and European enquiries to
Dwayne's Photo
PO Box 274 or 415 S 32nd St.
Parsons, KS 67357
USA
who describe themselves as "America's most experienced, independent, specialty photo processor. " and "the only remaining Kodak certified Kodachrome film processor in the U.S."
http://www.dwaynesphoto.com
Their order form says $10 processing fee, international postage $13.95 - not fast but a lot cheaper than FedEx. They require payment by PayPal or Credit Card. Add your outbound postage.
That seems a reasonable price for seeing if there is anything of family importance on the film.
Dave
They refer all US and European enquiries to
Dwayne's Photo
PO Box 274 or 415 S 32nd St.
Parsons, KS 67357
USA
who describe themselves as "America's most experienced, independent, specialty photo processor. " and "the only remaining Kodak certified Kodachrome film processor in the U.S."
http://www.dwaynesphoto.com
Their order form says $10 processing fee, international postage $13.95 - not fast but a lot cheaper than FedEx. They require payment by PayPal or Credit Card. Add your outbound postage.
That seems a reasonable price for seeing if there is anything of family importance on the film.
Dave
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Worth checking to make sure the film has actually been exposed and you're not sending an unexposed film off for processing, as it'll be dear. Look at the film strip in the gate area - does it show a cutout where the perforations should be?
But if it has been exposed then being Kodachrome it'll be fine - I'm sure. There was no more stable stock than Kodachrome, which is why Art Garfunkel sang about it.
tom.
But if it has been exposed then being Kodachrome it'll be fine - I'm sure. There was no more stable stock than Kodachrome, which is why Art Garfunkel sang about it.
tom.
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The word "EXPOSED" will also be printed at the end of the film next to the cutout if the cartridge has been finished.tom hardwick wrote: Look at the film strip in the gate area - does it show a cutout where the perforations should be?
There is a little bit more to it than that. Kodachrome is indeed very stable, but only once developed. Very old undeveloped K40 is likely to have shifted towards being magenta in colour, but in my experience generally acceptably so, or not so badly that it can't be improved somewhat with colour correction. I suppose that if it has gone really magenta it could be usefully viewable as a B&W image once a bit of computer trickery has been applied.But if it has been exposed then being Kodachrome it'll be fine - I'm sure. There was no more stable stock than Kodachrome, which is why Art Garfunkel sang about it.
Bart
Strangely enough, my mother-in-law rang us just a couple of days ago to say that it had come back from Dwayne's Photo and that there was about three minutes of viewable footage, but that it was red in colour.
Anyway, red (magenta) or not, she's more than happy that she had it developed, so thanks to you all for your input and suggestions.
Anyway, red (magenta) or not, she's more than happy that she had it developed, so thanks to you all for your input and suggestions.
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I always colour correct with the Canopus Storm2 software. It has a white and black balance filter - meaning that you can click your mouse cursor on anything in that frame that you consider should be white and the entire clip is so corrected. If that's too blue-white for your liking (for instance) you can fine tune the 4 sliders to give you exactly the colours you'd like.
I've pulled back ancient movie film from the brink that way, and an awful lot of ancient Ilfochrome, Perutzchrom and Orwochrome that have turned completely magenta or red have been salvaged.
I've got some before and after frame grabs on my computer here that look as if they've been done the other way around - i.e. starting off ok and being degraded by tom.
I've pulled back ancient movie film from the brink that way, and an awful lot of ancient Ilfochrome, Perutzchrom and Orwochrome that have turned completely magenta or red have been salvaged.
I've got some before and after frame grabs on my computer here that look as if they've been done the other way around - i.e. starting off ok and being degraded by tom.
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There's an example on this page:
http://www.fortvir.net/gallery2/main.ph ... &g2_page=6
showing what my colour correction was able to do for the wedding speeches when a filmmaker had chip-block failure with his Sony PD170.
If you click on the individual pictures they'll enlarge.
tom.
http://www.fortvir.net/gallery2/main.ph ... &g2_page=6
showing what my colour correction was able to do for the wedding speeches when a filmmaker had chip-block failure with his Sony PD170.
If you click on the individual pictures they'll enlarge.
tom.
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That's pretty good grading!
At the moment I'm grading a field-trip movie I'm doing for our Yr8 geography class.
Shot on a Sony A1E, with yellow highights, blue shadows and horrible contrast (Next time I'll use my HVX).
Fortunatly in Media Composer I can at least controll High, Mid and Shadow separatly else I'd be scuppered.
Dave
At the moment I'm grading a field-trip movie I'm doing for our Yr8 geography class.
Shot on a Sony A1E, with yellow highights, blue shadows and horrible contrast (Next time I'll use my HVX).
Fortunatly in Media Composer I can at least controll High, Mid and Shadow separatly else I'd be scuppered.
Dave