Re: kodachrome slide film

From: Sean Weitzel (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 09:18:17 PDT


I shot a 100 foot bulk roll of Fuji Velvia 50 in an Eyemo-71Q a number
of years ago and it was breathtaking projecting it in a theater. Too
bad it was only about 90 seconds.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:03 AM, john price <email suppressed> wrote:
> I have shot KS perfs in an arri 3 and it ran steady... that was a bulk
> roll of ektachrome 64T slide film... probably not steady enough for
> effects but for an experimental film it looked fine... 35mm camera
> original up on a 40 foot screen cannot be matched for sharpness or
> detail especially when you have 3000+ watts of xenon pumping through
> it.
>
> I imagine the roll lengths are between 2000 and 10000 feet but i have
> not been able to get this information... soon I hope now that I have
> given up on the slaes rep and started to post the question.
>
> john.
>
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> On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Sam Wells wrote:
>
> >
> >> I first discovered him when people tried to argue about the
> >> impossibility of hand- processing Kodachrome. Very informative here:
> >>
> >> http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=009ajI
> >
> > Wow, 400 speed Kodachrome; T grain.....
> >
> > Anyway -- John the only person I can think of at Kodak who might lend
> > a sympathetic ear would be Steve Garfinkle (he was vocally an advocate
> > of the continuation of Plus-X and Tri-X reversal stocks from Kodak
> > --- (I don't have contact info)
> >
> > I don't know how long the rolls are -- but cutting at 400' (or 100'
> > for Eyemo) lengths is certainly _doable_ whether they would or not is
> > another question. They can even custom slit widths although they're
> > not likely to tell you that but I know a filmmaker got them to slit
> > and perf the 5285 (from the sheets I suppose) at 16mm single perf
> > some time before they - Kodak - released the stock in 16/S16 gauge. I
> > suspect he bought a lot of it.
> >
> > A Kodak rep did tell me once they could give me 400' rolls (35mm) of T
> > Max 400 with BH perfs - If I bought "enough of it" (he wasn't sure how
> > much would constitute "enough" - this was not too long after the
> > introduction of that emulsion.
> >
> > Cutting to 400' isn't your only concern, the perforating issue is
> > another -- with the KS perfs which it normally has as a still film
> > you'd have to find something that worked -- it's well known Coutard
> > shot on Ilford (and Agfa ?) stills films for Godard (Breathless, and
> > -- ?? Le Petit Soldat ?) with an Eclair Cameflex --- on CML once,
> > Jean-Pierre Beauviala alluded to the possibility of shooting KS perf
> > film with the Aaton 35-III but I don't know if anyone has done that or
> > not..... paging Jeff........
> >
> > -Sam
> >
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