On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Joel Wilcox wrote:
|My biggest complaint about the consumer Kodachrome (in the past -- I don't
|know about the new "Select" version) is that you never knew whether it
|would bias toward green (cyan?) or magenta. I had always thought I might
|experiment with a batch and check it when it is fresh, a year from
|expiration, 6 months from expiration, and at expiration -- just to see how
|long to "ripen" it before chucking it in the freezer.
|
|Has anybody ever done what I'm suggesting with Kodachrome?
My understanding (and my practice) is that Kodak designs their
"consumer" films to mature about six months before the expiration
date. Consequently, I leave consumer films on the shelf until "minus
six months" then freeze them if I'm not ready to use them yet. I have
been doing this for years now, and I haven't had a problem with film
color since I started this practice.
|At 12:08 AM 3/5/2000 -0500, you wrote:
|>On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Phillip Franklin wrote:
|>
|>|I did not think K25 was discontinued. I know most local small photo
|>|stores don't usually carry it because they don't buy their film
|>|direct from Kodak. And I'm sure almost all of it goes to the larger
|>|pro stores. B&H has it and at a great price. That roll I had
|>|sitting in the freezer had a expiration date of June 1996. It worked
|>|just fine. So maybe it's not a bad idea to buy a few extra rolls and
|>|store it in the freezer just so that it's at hand when you need it.
|>
|>What has been replaced was PKM, which has been dropped for a member of
|>the KODAK SELECT Series, KM. From Kodak's own web site:
|>
|>http://kodak.com/cgi-bin/webCatalog.pl?product=KODACHROME+25+Professional+F
|ilm+(PKM)&cc=US&lc=en
|>
|>we have:
|>
|>KODACHROME 25 Professional Film (PKM)
|>Note: KODACHROME 25 Film (KM), a member of the KODAK SELECT Series,
|>will replace KODACHROME 25 Professional Film (PKM) in mid-1999.
|>
|>Color balance: Daylight or electronic flash
|>Primary features:
|>Fine grain and very high sharpness
|>Reproduces subtle colors naturally
|>Pleasing skin tones
|>Reciprocity performance
|>Archival dark keeping
|>Suggested applications:
|>Nature/travel
|>Process: Process K-14, by independent processing lab
|>
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