{"id":1196,"date":"2010-12-28T01:12:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T06:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2010-12-30T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T17:05:29","slug":"last-two-rolls-of-kodachrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Last Two Rolls of Kodachrome"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kodak<\/a>

Kodak Instamatic Camera and Kodachrome 64<\/p><\/div>\n

I finished my last two rolls of Kodachrome slide film today and shipped them off to Dwayne’s Photo in Kansas, just in time for the deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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One was a 35mm roll of Kodachrome 25 that I found in the bottom of the film draw in my refrigerator (everyone keeps film in the fridge, right?).\u00c2\u00a0 The roll is 14 years old. I put it in my Canon F-1 film camera (my digital cameras don’t seem to have a slot for a film cartridge) and shot Christmas pictures over the last few days.<\/p>\n

The other roll was 126 cartridge film (Kodachrome 64) that I discovered in an old Kodak Instamatic camera. That roll could be 30 years old or more. Over half the frames had already been shot so I finished the roll.<\/p>\n

Film ages with time. Kodachrome goes from slightly greenish in tone when it is manufactured, shifts to a neutral color balance when it hits its prime, and then gradually shifts to magenta as it continues to age past its exposure date.\u00c2\u00a0 Ideally, by the time a roll of Kodachrome hit the marketplace, sat on the shelves, was sold, exposed, and then processed, it would be somewhere near its prime.\u00c2\u00a0 I used to look for outdated Kodachrome to shoot sunsets. Not only was it on sale, the magenta color shift added an extra boost to the warm sunset colors.\u00c2\u00a0 I expect quite a color shift with both rolls of film.<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to see how the K-25 turns out. I can’t wait to see what I get with the Instamatic K-64 film. Could be something and could be nothing at all due to the aging of the film for such a long period of time. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished my last two rolls of Kodachrome slide film today and shipped them off to Dwayne’s Photo in Kansas, just in time for the deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}