Bob W wrote:
Depends on how and how long you keep it. Amateur KR is just pro KR that's
past its prime.
Godfrey,
The comments I heard led me to believe the non-pro Kodachrome was more
robust than the pro version, with more consistent colors and less
aging & heat problems.
Bob
OR, to put it another way, the pro stuff needs to be kept refridgerated
and used as close to the
release date as possible... where as the amateur film needs to be used
much later... I don't know
what the peak -time-past-the--release-date is these days, but I got 100
rolls of PKR from Kodak
the year they did a switch on the end date on the Amateur 64. I had
spent a month shooting out west
where ya want the glorious reds and royal blues - when I got home
everything had a slightly greenish cast...
about 20cc shy on the magenta side (that is, if I put a magenta filter
overe the slide it corrected it)
.... arrrgggh! I was in tears!
I took the Amateur stuff with me, of course, because I didn't have to
worry as much about the temperature
and even in autumn and certainly in the sun ya know what New Mexico
and Arizona are like..
I didn't know WHY - but the Kodak rep actually came over and looked at
my slides and immediately
saw the problem and let me in on the (then) recent change. The change
was made, he said, because
most "amateurs" leave film in there camera for ages... But not to let
consumers know they changed it
was pretty outrageous... (I'm counting a cmera store owner as a consumer
there)
Bottom line - it's possible slightly "outdated" amateur Kodachrome may
be perfectly ok, and better
than the very freshest stuff.
ann
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