Kodachrome 25 is DISCONTINUED?????

[KBOC]

What happened? Why??????????

 

[dlc]

There has been no K25 for quite awhile. It lost out when E-6 films were so much improved with the grain technology plus easy processing. Velvia 50 is the standard now by which all other slide films are judged.

 

[KBOC]

damn, things HAVE changed!

Can one get chemicals for processing Velvia 50? or does it need to be lab processed like Kodachrome?

 

[Bob_McBob]

Velvia is normal colour transparency film, process E-6. Kodachrome uses process K-14, which is getting harder and harder to have done. There are only a few places in the world that still do it, and it's expensive as hell. You can still buy Kodachrome 25 if you look around (B&H sells it, I'd imagine...). Really, some of the newer emulsions are probably better choices.

 

[KBOC]

Gee... like I said, things HAVE changed.

I was looking Velvia 50 up and found it in 100' rolls for $80! I used to pay $80 for 100' of Plus-X!

Now I need to figure out which is going to be the best slide scanner and find out if it's actually worth it to simply shoot slides and scan...