8mm/super 8mm

[BNeate]

Is there anywhere that still processes 8mm/super 8mm? I was thinking about buying an old 8mm camera to play around with for fun. I want to just have the experince in shooting with it. Are there still labs that process it? I am able to buy the stuff that I need to shoot and edit, but if I cant process it there's no point.

[octopoli]

Yeah lots.

Alpha Cine in Seattle and Bono lab in Virginia (they processed Buffalo 66). Also Spectra and Pro 8mm in Los Angeles and both of them have packages. In UK I-Dailies Film and Foto.

[AdamBrown]

Some of the places mentioned, I believe, may still offer deals where you get discounts on the processing if you buy the film from the same vendor. If I remember correctly, Pro8mm does this, and Spectra may as well.

No one is processing Regular 8mm anymore though, to my recollection. So, unless there's some novelty lab out there doing it and charging higher rates, you're best to go with Super8..

Best of luck. Enjoy film!

[octopoli]

Rocky Mountain Lab will process regular 8

They even process Kodachrome http://www.rockymountainfilm.com

I tried so hard to have Kodak make me some 35mm Kodachrome Motion Picture film about 10 years ago and I nearly succeeded but they wanted a $25,000 minimum order and I couldnt find the cash.

[AdamBrown]

Rocky Mountain Lab will process regular 8

They even process Kodachrome http://www.rockymountainfilm.com

That's awesome, I knew they did stills film but didn't see the option for Regular 8.

I recently acquired some Kodachrome rolls and I'm saving them for the proper occasion, but I planned on sending them to Rocky Mountain for developing. Plus, I bought an old Kodak Duaflex that happened to have an unopened box of 620 film that expired back in 1968. I was gonna take a shot, no pun intended, and see if I could get something fun out of it. But, now we're veering into the Stills discussion. Apologies!

Back on track, have you processed anything through Rocky Mountain before? What's their quality/reputation like?

[s162216]

To those of you above discussing getting Kodachrome developed in colour, I hate to burst your bubble but sadly its not possible at all anywhere in the world. The K-14M process was unique in that all the colour dyes were added in during the developing and sadly when the last lab closed, Kodak also discontinued the unique specialised dyes and bleach necessary for the process. As so nowhere is able to do it.

With regards to the Rocky Mountain film lab, it doesn't have exactly a stellar reputation with a lot of complaints online about films etc being sent and not returned over year later with emails etc being ignored. They went bankrupt a couple of years ago but seem to have come back. On their site they do state that colour Kodachome developing is not possible but either positive or negative B&W developing is (some labs only do one or the other) as the first step of the K-14M process (after the alkali bath to remove the rem-jet backing) is a B&W PQ developer and after that you can literally just skip the rest to the stop, fixer etc to obtain a negative and then other steps to obtain a positive. If you should want to get anything like that developed, then the two places to use are 'Process C22' in the UK and 'Film Rescue International' in the USA, both of which have good reputations for quality (although Process C22 can take up to 6 months sometimes for some film types as they wait to collect enough before mixing the custom chemicals for the obsolete processes).

There are several groups trying to get a working colour K-14 process going so you might want to hang onto it for a while. A guy in Australia has successfully developed it in colour but he had access to a state of the art analytical lab and he has made clear that he is not going to do it for anyone else; likewise it is possible to run it through a modified E6 process but the results are nowhere near as good as the proper process.

I hope you find this useful.