Good news. Bad news.

[Actor]

From Brodsky and Treadway's Little Film site:

KODACHROME WITH PROCESSING INCLUDED AT A GREAT PRICE
Dateline May 2002

Kodak announced a new listing of this product: Kodachrome 40 Movie Film- Super 8 Film in silent cartridge with processing mailer, CAT No. 505 3335, Minimum order unit 1, Net per unit US$ 13.31. Filmmakers can get it from the Kodak order line, 800-621-FILM.

This is a major breakthrough for people who love this film, both in price and in ease of getting it to the lab. Thank you whoever made this happen inside the Motion Picture Division at Kodak.


USE OLD B&W Reversal Film NOW: chemistry change
Dateline NOVEMBER 2001

While at the AMIA conference in Portland Oregon, Kodak's Marian Herz said to tell all the filmmakers we know to use their current Black and White reversal motion picture film soon. Kodak will be changing the bleach in the processing of this film and the new environmentally friendly bleach will not work with the old stocks.

[tfunch24]

Thanks the heads-up.

I assume the 22 remaining carts of the 24 Tri-X carts that I bought in August 2002 (now in deep freeze in the garage freezer) will work with the new enviornmentally-friendly bleach. I've shot two carts of the stuff so far, Pac Lab developed all of them, and they all came back fine.

I did have a problem with a jittery Tri-X cart in September, but I purchased that cart last May. Besides, that's another problem for another day.

Tom

[calgodot]

I've searched the Kodak site and can find no official announcement of this. Does anyone have a link to a more informative announcement or press release?

[lightfeat]

That certainaly is good news for you Americans, getting the mailers. We've only ever been able to buy Kodachrome K40 with prepaid mailers here in England. I bought a batch of 70 carts once, however, and about 15 had no envelope in them, but they will process them all the same over here, because you had to buy it with an envelope.

On the bad news, surely someone will be able to process the old stock if they don't use Kodak chemicals. Is the problem that these are prepaid mailers? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Has anyone had any jitter problems lately. I am about to buy 24 K40's for a project and am too scared to make the investment till I find out. The cheapest I've found expire 02/04, and are from Photomart at six quid each.

Lucas

[MikeBrantley]

What's the URL to B&T's Web site? I don't remember if I have it linked on my site.

Interesting news... I'll have to take inventory of how much B&W is in my 'fridge. Do I assume correctly that it's safe to buy more B&W reversal film now and that it will work with the
"environmentally safe" chemistry? I like to buy film in batches when I have spare cash and them keep it frozen until I get ready to shoot it.

[BolexPlusx]

Brodsky and Treadway's Little Film site:

http://littlefilm.org/

[MikeBrantley]

Thanks!

[tfunch24]

Re: Is current B&W film okay?

I suspect that B&W film purchased in 2002 will work with the new environmentally-friendly bleach. I purchased twenty-four rolls of Tri-X (four last spring, twenty in August) and have had three of them developed. With the exception of one jittery cart (which was purchased last spring), the film came out fine.

The environmentally-friendly bleach may already be in use, given that the announcement was made in 11/2001. That's nearly a year ago.

Re: Jittery K40 carts.

All the K40 carts I've purchased this summer have been fine. All of them are dated "4/2004."

Tom