8mm Forum: I found an Oasis in the middle of Sahara (bunch of Ektachrome 64T for very cheap!)

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Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on March 11, 2013, 12:42 PM:

Guys, what an incredible story I got. But perhaps for you who only involve in film package collecting hobby, you won't bothered with this.

As you may have known that Kodak has recently stopped producing Ektachrome 100D, so this means the films shooting hobby is dying. We can rely only with Fuji (and AGFA?) by slitting their 35mm slide film done by Wittner. This making the price of super 8mm will be very expensive (perhaps $35/each without processing) from what I already thought was expensive.

Some film shooters are still optimistic with the Wittner's move but as I am more film collecting man, I was going to close my book of shooting by stating in this thread:
Bye, bye Ektachrome 100d

quote:
I am sad too to see disappear, but big LOL to those rush buying for the sake to make a profit.

Now we can see on Ebay people are selling an E100D for $49. Good luck for them but I have a limitation my self that everything beyond $20 is out of my budget and I will shot my home movies with video. I will not die just because I am using video, right?

However just a few days ago, I found in our local Craiglist someone was offering 23 Ektachrome 64T. Yesss....23 cartridge.... !!! however the price is not cheap though, $25/cart!

The original add can still be seen here: http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/pho/3582904987.html

But if you see carefully on the bottom of the page, the add was posted Jan 30, while today is already March 11. So no takers for that long. I was thinking if the films were still available why did not I make an offer?.

So I sent an email and...got a reply. The lady seller wanted to go down to $17/each. Well, although that is already below $20, but since that was just the same price with Dwyane's for a E100D, I just made a random offer....say..$13/each [Razz]

Two days no reply was received, I just say to my self, all right... I understand her position. But before I made another move today I received a reply say "I can see your offer..."

So here we go now:

I am happy with this purchase so I can secure my shooting for 3 years to go until I really stop making a movie with super 8mm.

Anybody can get the idea when these films were manufactured:

ps: the seller was apparently owning a production house and has once made a movie with super 8mm. They are left over stocks and had been always kept in freezer since then.

A $13/cart in the shortage of E6 films (E64T and E100D) is just like finding an oasis in the middle of Sahara..., right? [Wink]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on March 11, 2013, 12:58 PM:

Great find Winbert!,

I recently grabbed a reasonable bunch of 100Ds myself. The only thing that makes me a little nervous is the idea that processing chemistry for obsolete film may itself be obsoleted and suddenly!

I know the way my schedule goes too: I hope I am able to get some great use of these before that other shoe drops and I'm back to the end of 2010 using up my last three K40s before Dwaynes ended processing.

Been there! Done that! Didn't buy the T shirt!

Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on March 11, 2013, 01:45 PM:

That's great Winbert! Especially since they were stored in a freezer. You shouldn't have anything to worry about if they were kept frozen. I guess you will find out for sure when you shoot the first roll.

As far as figuring out the manufacture date, Kodak doesn't publish that information. If you contact them they may be able to tell you the manufacture date from the batch code. They don't use expiration dates anymore because there are so many variables that affect it like heat.

This will help you decipher the codes: How to read a kodak film can label

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on March 11, 2013, 04:33 PM:

Yes Bryan, in 2010 I used sound K40 (expire 1992-1994) without any problem. Some carts were giving just new stock. Unbelieveable.

Just if I knew that before I would be using more sound stock, but I didn`t do that because I was afraid would get bad result.

Regardding these 64T I guess the chemical is easy to get, even somne people process films at home. So I am optimistic to shoot until 2016..YIKES!

Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on March 11, 2013, 05:01 PM:

I don't think we will have the problems processing E6 in the future like we have with Kodachrome, It's not as complicated and there are companies other than Kodak that make the chemicals.

Posted by Graham Sinden (Member # 431) on March 11, 2013, 05:50 PM:

Hi Steve,

Well I did buy the T-Shirt. [Smile]

And top quality it was too [Smile]

Graham S

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on March 11, 2013, 05:56 PM:

-actually If I could get the Summer to use these cartridges that would do fine for me.

In that spirit, tonight I'm going to write the titles for the film I'm making for my son's and my weekend at Cinesea last October and finish one roll!

I'd actually like that shirt Graham! (It's still available too!)

Were you among the last Kodachrome "graduating class" too?

Posted by Graham Sinden (Member # 431) on March 11, 2013, 06:09 PM:

Well I sent off a number of Kodachrome cartridges to Dwaynes after Kodak stopped, and some I sent off just before the deadline. I still have 3 cartridges left in the fridge.

Due to still 'using up' Kodachrome, I never used 64T. By the time I started using Ektachrome they had switched to 100d. So how much of an improvement was 100d over 64t.

Graham S

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on March 11, 2013, 06:16 PM:

64T has nice color, but is a little grainy for my taste. It mainly shows up when you are filming people at a distance: their faces become non-distinct a lot closer than with K40. That being said: I still got some nice footage with it.

100D? My first cartridge is still in the camera, and is the one I'll be sending in hopefully this month.

High Noon in Parsons Kansas

Posted by Graham Sinden (Member # 431) on March 11, 2013, 06:26 PM:

Ive been quite impressed with 100d since using it. Noticeably more grainy than Kodachrome (of course) but the colours are very good and saturated. The reds are particularly strong.

Graham S

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