Does anyone know where I can get some Ektachrome 160 Type-G movie film processed?
Thanks,
Levi
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Does anyone know where I can get some Ektachrome 160 Type-G movie film processed?
Thanks,
Levi
If Im right, Yale film and Labs processes Ektachrome 160.
Every time we talk about Yale, a war begins to brew.
They have some policies, so beware.
Scott
if my memory serves me well, yale labs processes the 160g the last wednesday of the month only.
i won't knock yale. let's hope their principles regarding quality control and customer service are as haughty as their moral convictions.
-ekoe
Is there anywhere else to get this stuff processed?
I actually really like the stock, amazingly enough. I think it has a nice bluish tint, very subtle. Grain isn't that bad either. I know my previous cartridges were developed by Martin Baumgarten in Plattsburgh, but he's not accepting new orders right now.
Anybody?
P.S. I included a bunch of E160 on the test reel that MovieStuff will be transferring to DV using his WorkPrinter. We might be able to convince him to MPG encode for the web to provide a small sample of the quality (obviously not representative of DV)
Marc S.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ekoe:
if my memory serves me well, yale labs processes the 160g the last wednesday of the month only.
i won't knock yale. let's hope their principles regarding quality control and customer service are as haughty as their moral convictions.
-ekoe<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Very well stated!
-Alex
[QUOTE]Originally posted by MrObvious:
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"Grain isn't that bad either"
(Matt Pacini responds):
I wholeheartedly disagree.
The grain in Ektachrome is absolutely horrible. It looks fine on the little editor, or in a 320x200 window on your computer, but I had the horrifying experience of seeing my film, Lost Tribes projected in a theater (video projection), and the Kodachrome 40 footage looked really good, and then a scene that I shot on Ektachrome 160 or 125 would come on, and I literally sunk in my seat from embarrassment. It looked sooooooo bad, I will never, ever use it again!
Just throw it away & get some K-40, unless you're only going to have your film on the Internet, and nothing else (looks bad on the VCR too).
Matt Pacini
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Well... to each his own. I kind of like the grain. But then I'm not stuck on the idea that I'm going to make a feature film and win an oscar with super-8. (Not a dig at you, Matt!)
Incidentally, the Kodak PK-59 mailers say that they are good for Kodachrome or Ektachrome films. Willt he Type G film work? Can you still buy Ektachrome G160?
Marc S.
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Kodak replaced the Ektachrome 160 with 125.
It's definitely not as grainy, but it's not a huge improvement.
It looks better though, they switched towards the end of my production of LOST TRIBES, and I ended up shooting the 4 Temple Sacrifice Scenes on 125.
It looked much better than the 160 ever would have, especially since I shot at fairly low light, at an F-stop of about 2 to 2.8.
(Actually, I shot with about 6K of lighting, but with the exception of two 650W fresnels directly over the altar, the other lights were heavily filtered with blue gels, which cut a tremendous amount of light out, making it pretty freakin dark for shooting S8!
Matt Pacini
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Type G can be processed through Kodak.You can send it off in a kodak super 8 mailer.
Kodak stoped making the mailers and have no plans to bring them back.
Kodak is not doing very well right now, and I think everyone in this group should choose there words with care. Lets not piss off the last company that still makes super 8 film.
F super 8 sound. They suck.
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I never liked type G because it seemed to have an identity crisis going. No matter what I did, it never seemed to be balanced to any particular kind of light; tungsten or daylight. The colors were always terrible and muted.
A million years ago, when I was selling the stuff right out of high school in the 70's, a Kodak rep came through and asked how we liked the (at that time) new type G stuff. My boss looked incredulous and asked why (what was there to like?) and the guy said that the type G was sort of an embarrassing forced experiment for Kodak. As the story goes, Kodak screwed up a HUGE batch of their regular Ektachrome 160 tungsten. The end result was the type G which, as I pointed out above, doesn't really seem to be balanced to anything in particular. Kodak felt they had stumbled onto something that would help consumers shoot under a variety of lighting types without worrying about correct color. So they slapped a "G" on the label (for general use, you see) and the rest is grainey, muted history.
To what ever degree this notion had any validity is debatable, unless they consider all around sucky color to be a preferrable consistant than hit or miss good color. Anyway, the only use I ever found for it was under the older flourescent lights, in which it did seem to work better than the regular 160 (again, not great color, but not green, either) or when dropped out to black and white, makes a pretty decent tri-X substitute when you pump the contrast a bit. Well, actually a LOT as type G seemed to have NO contrast; almost like shooting ECO.
Ooooooo. Now THERE's a scary thought.
Bet you kids have no idea what I'm talking about. Hah! And you think K40 is slow! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif
Roger
[This message has been edited by MovieStuff (edited August 23, 2001).]
[QUOTE]Originally posted by GrizeldaFilms:
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" Kodak stoped making the mailers and have no plans to bring them back."
(Matt Pacini responds):
I'm not sure where you heard that, but I just got online after reading your post, and ordered 30 PK-59 mailers from B&H in NY.
At first, the guy told me that Kodak was not supporting them.
I asked him if he was sure, and if he meant the mailers specifically, or Super 8.
Then, I said that I knew Kodak supported S8, because they just released a new stock (200T), and could he check to be sure.
He did, and apologized. He had assumed (like many do) that Kodak quit all S8 stuff, and asked someone, and said he was wrong on both counts.
He then gave me the URL to order the mailers, which I did.
So, please give your source for this, because I would like to know if it's true, or if it's just a repeated statement from an unenlightened source, like this B&H rep.
Matt Pacini
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Levi:
Does anyone know where I can get some Ektachrome 160 Type-G movie film processed?
Thanks,
Levi<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Levi:
Does anyone know where I can get some Ektachrome 160 Type-G movie film processed?
Thanks,
Levi<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yale does fine. You might check with Rocky Mtn. Labs in Colorado too.
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About the mailers---------I sent a email to kodak about the pk-59 mailer.
They no longer make them, but there is still a small supply left. I hope this clears things up.
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I have to agree with Matt and Roger. Ektachrome G sucks compared to K40. In fact I think the G stands for garbage.
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