Your KODACHROME...How do you plan to spend it?

<p>What some of the above posters seem to be overlooking is that this is a product whose value has a definite end date. Maybe next summer K64 will be worth $20 a roll or more, but once Dwayne's quits processing it, the value will be $0, except for the guys who might want a few boxes to display... and all that sort needs is the boxes anyway. It's not like the housing market; I bought a house in the inflated market of '05 which is now worth about 120K less than I paid for it, but I can still live in the house for the rest of my life and (barring accidents) its value will never just vanish. With the Kodachrome, it's use it or lose it.</p>

<p>What would <strong>really</strong> tick me off is if all those speculators still have a stockpile on January 1, 2011. Normally I'd just laugh at them, like I do at the ticket scalpers who can't unload all their overpriced stock by the beginning of the game/concert/whatever and wind up with a stack of worthless paper, but in this case all that film was taken out of the hands/cameras of people who were willing to use it, which kinda spoils the schadenfreude.</p>

<p>I personally have the equivalent of three rolls of PKR828 left. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with that yet. (I've never shot slide film, except for one roll of PKR120 years ago just to see if I could get it right.) Now that I think of it, probably the ideal use for me, given my interests, would be to take pictures of the fall foliage from a train, preferably a rare-mileage excursion if anyone is running one around here. Steam engine optional (although I'd prefer a first-generation diesel, you don't need color film to shoot steam).</p>

<p>I shot a roll of the 828 at a cousin's bar mitzvah last week, thereby using up two irreplaceable commodities: Kodachrome and four M2 flashbulbs. (No x-sync on this camera.) Got lots of attention from the yung'ins there, I can tell you. Of course the other camera I brought, the XD-11, gets its share of attention too, the kids all want to see the picture on the LCD on the back and are surprised when they can't find it...</p>

<p>Question: 120 film is what, 56mm wide? When I cut it down to 828, which is 35mm, I end up with another strip of 21mm width left over. Does anyone have a need for this? I've kept it unexposed.</p>

<p>You're welcome Charles. Actually, after double-checking my stock I have 4 rolls, perhaps 1 will end up on eBay to help pay for said wedding.</p>

<p>Mr. or Mrs. Septimus...</p>

<p>1. I think 120/220 film is about 62 mm wide. </p>

<p>2. 21mm of Kodachrome with paper backing would be great for a Minox user as Minox film is 9mm wide. One could get two film strips from your "leftovers". 62mm-35mm is 27mm theoretically enough for three strips of Minox film. One can still get slide mounts on sleezebay for Minox film, often of the conventional 2"x2" size that fit a conventional 35mm/super slide projector rather than the special Minox mounts which require a Minox projector. </p>

<p>3. I put MR. or Mrs. as Shalom has been used for babies of either sex since about 1990. </p>

<p>Tom Burke</p>

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<p>I've received a bunch of the stuff since it was discontinued. Some is going to a few special events (like the wedding I was at last week) and the rest is going on Ebay. Why? It's the only way I'm going to afford a good medium format camera. Business is crap so I have a personal rule that any purchases of cool camera stuff have to be funded by trading in other camera stuff.</p>

<p>Oops! </p>

<p>Minox is 9.5 mm wide. Still enough for 2 strips from the leavings after cutting 35mm from 120 film. </p>

<p>Tom Burke</p>

<p>Thomas, I had considered trying to slice some of the Kodachrome KM25 for my Minox EC, but just can't figure a way to make it adaptable for Dwayne's to process it. I won't likely do this but (aside from it's perferations) I've always wanted to see if Super 8 film could be made to work in my EC. Have you ever heard of anyone attempting such?</p>

<p>Mr. Watkins...</p>

<p>I did not have a Minox until after Kodachrome was no longer available in Minox cassettes. </p>

<p>A friend with a camera shop had an older C41 processing machine (years ago) without the 110/126/120/220/127/828 adapter box. He would do 110, 126, 828, 16mm and Minox C41 film by re-rolling it up in a re-usable 35mm film canister. I see no reason that Dwaynes could not do that. But then, it could be that I just do not see a very good reason. </p>

<p>Tom</p>