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Nathan DeHahn
Film Handler

Posts: 58
From: Racine, WI
Registered: Aug 2010

posted September 05, 2010 08:51 AM

I brought it from flea market, i do not know if results are going to be good on processing E-6 instead EM-26? or Affordable place for EM-26 processing? It does have expiration date Dec 1979 on all three carts.

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Kodachrome Kid

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Joe Taffis
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1592
From: United States
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 05, 2010 09:56 AM

hi Nathan, not sure if they can help, but you can try Film Rescue.com

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Joe Taffis

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Rob Young.
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1633
From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003

posted September 05, 2010 12:45 PM

Nathan, if these are exposed cartridges then of course some form of rescue may be valid to see what material they may hold.

However, if they are unexposed and you intend to run them through a camera my advice is to bin them. It was a dreadful film stock in it's day, let alone out of date! [Wink]

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 05, 2010 09:58 PM

Nathan, you will not be able to process it with E6. If you bring that to film rescue, the processing cost will be really high while you are very thin to get a result for 1979 film.

Use it for display only.

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Nathan DeHahn
Film Handler

Posts: 58
From: Racine, WI
Registered: Aug 2010

posted September 06, 2010 11:07 AM

I looked at some Old footages dated from the 70's on Ektachrome 160, I Really liked the muted colors on the footage. It sucks they stopped making them. [Frown]

One thing is that it is higher speed than New Ektachrome 100D. I will use them as a display now. [Big Grin]

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Kodachrome Kid

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