JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

His disclaimer about color shifts, lack of image, weirdness in development, LIKELY not going to give long term image stability, and a high price doesn't make it sound too promising.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

In some ways it's a shame. Kodachrome was the only archive-level color photograph medium I knew of. Images were very stable for many, many years.

ecurb1105

This seems like the best solution to processing old Kodachrome. As I remember, the film was a multi-layer black and white film with a black backing. In processing the bw was developed, the black backing scrubbed off and primary dyes added to the different layers, all done on a continuous strip machine. It was very complicated chemically and mechanically. And yes, I miss shooting it.

jamesl Loc: Pennsylvania

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There is/was a Cibachrome process that allowed you to print positive to positive prints from slides. I don't know if the chemistry and paper are still available though.

Nicholas DeSciose

Several years ago the last days of Kodachrome or well documented very poetically and poignantly. The last roll was shot by a National Geographic photographer. And then processed By the Afro mentioned lab in Kansas City. And that was it. Everybody should look up those stories. I just can’t remember how long ago the last day of Kodachrome was

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Nat Geo lived on Kodachrome for many years.
They even developed the "Red Shirt School of Photography"* - almost all shots had someone or something in a bright primary color, often red**, included in the image. So you looked at a Nat Geo full page or two page shot and there on say the rim of the Grand Canyon was someone wearing a red shirt, cap etc. as a compliment to the earth tones, greens and blue haze of the canyon.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_shirt_(photography)

**Kodachrome did such great reds.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

July 14, 2010 was the last day Kodachrome was processed by Dwayne’s Photo Lab in Parsons,
Kansas: about 2 hours South of Kansas City.

Another thread on Kodachrome here with photos of the Kodachrome processing equipment: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-581851-1.html

Bill P

I recently had the time to review some of my thousands of old chromes, all stored archivally. What a surprise! Some of the Kodachromes were fine, but others, Kodak processed, were totally faded out. Don't know why, but I was never convinced that the Dallas lab did as well as the Rochester lab. Still, I have many E4 and $6 process chromes that are still in perfect condition, from Kodak, Fuji and Agfa stock.

I gave up on Kodachrome and its inconsistent processing, often 20 or 30 points magenta, and moved to mostly Fuji chromes, Provia in particular. But in the pre all digital era, I shot most of my commercial and industrial work on negative film, mostly Kodak 160NC. It had a much greater dynamic range, and good latitude.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

I still do my own B&W film development. If you would like me to develope your Kodachrome in B&W, I would do that.. just PM me. I'm interested in the result too.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

Problem solved. If for any reason this resource doesn't work out, Google "Kodachrome processing" and you will find others. >Alan

https://dwaynesphoto.com/newsite2006/info-film-processing.html

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

No he won't. If you read their site under slide film you will see they were the last Kodachrome developer in the world and they stopped in Dec 2010.

It can only be developed as B&W now, and only a few places do that.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

Thanks for the info. Here's another possibility in the form of a reference.
https://shootfilmco.com/blogs/shoot-film-co/kodachrome-processed-in-color-seriously
As I said, if there is anyone who does this processing, a Google search will find them. >Alan

Kuzano

Dwayne of Dwayne's Lab did a Cameo appearance at his lab in the 2017 movie called "Kodachrome". A sappy movie about a dying father (played by Ed Harris) re-uniting with his son on a cross country trip and his girl friend (the son's) to take his last rolls of Kodachrome to Dwaynes, to beat the end or the processing of the emulsion.

It appears that huge amounts Kodachrome came out of the woodwork at the time, and the last of the process took some month's longer than promised, or anticipated. Dwayne greeted Ed Harris personally to receive his last rolls. At least on the part of the Ed Harris Character.

Sloppy and tearjerking, but not a totally bad movie. Not award winning either, however.

So, if you at least want to see what Dwayne looks like, Rent the movie Kodachrome.

Interestingly, While Fuji Labs processes Fuji from Walmart's "Send out only" program, Dwayne's is (was) the lab that does that same "Send Out Only" program for medium format 120 for Walmarts in the MidWest. I suspect they also do the simiar program for Sams Clubs, pseudo for Walmarts in the MidWest.

Dwayne's has been a major processor in the Middle part of the country.

repleo Loc: Boston

Dwane's front page looked promising, but dig down a bit and you find
"Kodachrome Film Status: The last day of processing for all types of Kodachrome film was December 30th, 2010."