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FixedFront t1_j14bo64 wrote

Reply to comment by QWERKey-UK in this bad boy in a camera shop in Haifa by ciderspice

Well, as opposed to what many minilab operators do with slide film intended for prints instead of slides, which is to just run it through the C-41 processor and damn the chemical consequences. The indie lab I referenced ran through so much Kodachrome that it was worth it for them to buy a dedicated unit. Meant they could also take on mail-in orders from other regional indie labs with quicker turnaround than the big processing houses.

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QWERKey-UK t1_j14cdd2 wrote

If you run C41 film through E6, you're cross processing, and that would look awful unless you shot specifically for it, and then printed accordingly. I doubt many minilabs would have done this, as it also ruins your chemistry pretty quickly.

Kodachrome was not E6... it was K14, a totally different process.

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FixedFront t1_j14eddv wrote

Yes, my bad. Forgot Ektachrome was the E-6 name. It's been nearly 15 years, cut a girl some slack. :) Generally, anyone using slide film of any chemistry knows that if they bring it to a 1-hour lab they're getting C-41. Whether they shoot for it is their business. I never ran slide film through my machines because I was a testing nut (and got one district photo supervisor pissed at me for that refusal), but a lot of the old heads would do it for customers on the expectation that doing it a few times a year wouldn't hurt things too badly at the rate they changed chemicals.

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