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Posted by John Starks (Member # 805) on April 18, 2007, 01:25 PM:

I just purchased an old 8mm movie camera and some 8mm double sided Kodachrome 40 film. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a couple of good photo labs who do 8mm film processing and what should I expect to pay per 25ft roll? I have seen prices ranging from $12 to around $35 per roll and I don't want to get the cheapest and have it look terrible and I do not want to overpay.

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on April 18, 2007, 03:42 PM:

John, As Kodak have now stopped selling Kodachrome they have also shut their labs. There is only one lab in the World still processing this film and it's Dwaynes Photo Lab in the US.

Use that link and you should find the details you require.

Finally welcome to the 8mm forum and I hope you find it useful and informative.

Kev.

Posted by Jason Griffith (Member # 746) on April 18, 2007, 06:57 PM:

I am also new to Super 8mm processing and I am curious...after I have run a cartridge in my camera, is there a process to get it out or is it sealed in the cartridge from exposure to light?

Thanks!

Jason

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 18, 2007, 08:09 PM:

Whoever processes the film cracks the cartridge open and removes the film prior to processing. You get it back from the lab on a reel.

Getting the film out of the cartridge in the dark is one of the things that makes home processing Super-8 kind of an adventure!

Posted by Jason Griffith (Member # 746) on April 18, 2007, 10:15 PM:

But once the film has been exposed with the camera, I can just pull the cartridge out of the camera without risk to the film, correct?

Jason

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 18, 2007, 10:27 PM:

Yes, only the very end of the film is exposed to light (just like the very beginning before you start to expose the film). Sometimes when you get film back from the lab, there will be about an inch of clear film at the very beginning; this is what was in the cartridge aperture before the film was run through the camera.

One of the nice things about the Super-8 cartridge is it even can be removed from the camera and something less than a half second worth of film will be exposed to daylight. It can be returned to the camera later or put in another camera and other than the footage counter being wrong (it returns to the beginning), it can then be finished without incident.

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