Re: The films of today vs. yesterday: All things considered, I'd take the
films from the early 90s over what is available today. Things like: EIR, HIE,
K-25/64/200 (in 120!), Ektar 25, Ektar 1000, Scotchchrome 1000, Tech pan, 2475
recording film, etc. All dead or only available NOS today.
Yes, today's films include the great Portras, revised versions of TMY (and
TMX?), the king of C41, Ektar 100, and a few other good ones. But I could live
w/o those if I could have the old films. Fortunately I have a good freezer
stash of most of the above, particularly tech pan and ektar 25.
Paper, particularly B&W paper was better back then vs. Now. the new Adoc MCC
that everyone is amped about is really just a remade agfa multicontrast paper,
from what I can tell. We had that back then. Plus we had Oriental G, Brovira
(grades 5 and 6!), and many others that are gone now including all the Kodak
B&W papers.
Today's rapidly-disappearing Kodak Endura RA-4 papers are as good as RA-4 gets
but sadly mostly discontinued now in cut sheets except for Ultra I think. I
have a stash but it won't last forever and I am not looking forward to
switching to Fuji or cutting down roll paper.
Bravo if someone down under is really making their own Kodachrome. I'd be
surprised and impressed if that is the case. A herculean effort to be sure, and
DIY'ing the processing is equally insanely complex from my understanding.
-Ed
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