boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

For no particular reason I am trying to remember the name of the Kodak 35mm film I used to shoot. It was a 25 ASA film that had to be refridgerated. I think it was Varicolor professional. I can't remember if this is the right name. Sorta like standing in front of the open fridge door, and trying to figure out why. Does anyone remember the right name of the film--Thanks

rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS

The primary films were Kodachrome and Ektachrome for positives and Kodacolor for negatives.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

There was a Kodachrome 25. I shot a lot of it.
Here is a list of Discontinued Film by most of the major players.

WDN2 Loc: SF Bay Area

They used to have a professional negative film called Vericolor II. I don't remember what the ISO was, but it seems like it was higher than 25. Apparently people still sell it on eBay.

FTn

Ektar 25 maybe?

- FTn

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Vericolor was 100ASA if my memory is right, google shows offerings of higher speeds but what I shot was asa 100, in those days Kodacolor was 80 I think, long time ago. When I sent it to the lab they were just starting to process it, had a letter from the lab supervisor for the delay, couldn't get the color to print right, beautiful prints.

no12mo

Kodachrome II had an initial ASA of 25 (ASA or ISO?). It had excellent flesh tone performance. That was back in the early 1960's Much better than the Kodachrome with an ASA of 10. It had excellent landscape performance. Both slides are keeping their dyes. Ektachrome are slowly turning into shadowy faded junk.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

[quote=WDN2]They used to have a professional negative film called Vericolor II. I don't remember what the ISO was, but it seems like it was higher than 25. Apparently people still sell it on eBay. That's it Vericolor professional. I think the ASA was 32. But I shot it at 25 as there was no 32 setting on the Canon F-1, and 25 is closer than 50

cdayton

Pix from the web - you can still buy it - processing may be an issue.

foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC

It was ASA not ISO

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

ASA 32 Color negative form Kodak goes back to the 1950s- It was a very early professional film made in large format sizes- 4x5, 5x7, and 8x10.

In early 1960 The pro film in 35mmm and 120 was CPS- Ektacolor Professional type C- it required C-33 Processing. It was officially ASA 100 but most pros exposed it at ASA 80

The next addition was Vericlor- it was intended for (Versimat) roller transport processing and the first emulsion of C-41 processing. There were issues of film damage during processing so it was withdrawn for a while and then replaced with an improved ASA (ISO) 100 version- Varicolor II. The Varicolor Pro films were mainly inteded for portraiture and wedding photography and were biased toward warmer skin tones- oftentimes green foleage in the background was undersaturated, The Portraa film enabled warm skin tones, clean whites and better rendition of green and blue colors.

The latest and still available pro films are the T-Grain Portra emulsion in ISO 160 and 400.

Ektar was first issued in IOS 25- very fine grain and high resolution. Lately, it's been reissued in IOS 100.

All "Professional" Kodak emulsions required refrigeration because they are aged for maximum performance and intended for prompt processing after exposure. At one time Kodacolr was the amateur emulsion- it had longer expiry dates due to preservatives in the formula. It was assumed that amateurs and occasional snapshooters kept the film in their cameras for extended periods of time before processing.

Early Professional color negative types had a rather course grain- Kodacolor had finer grain. Generally 1/2 to 1 stop overexposure of most color negative film provded better color saturation. I recall a Varicolor Commercial version with more neutral color rendition and higher contrast. There was also a high-speed versionHigh speed Vericolr film 3200 and one of my favorites was a type L version balanced for tungsten illumination.

anotherview Loc: California

Thanks for your view from experience, of a bygone era in film photography.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Thanks all. For some reason I think I shot it at ASA 25. But perhaps the memory is worse than I thought and I did use 100. And the Kodachrome was the 25. But this all, goes back to the early 80's. Oh I forgot that the fridge door is still open.

User ID

It’s just c41 .. what issue ???

User ID

There was no difference.