I shot about a dozen or more rolls of Kodachrome 200 in Kauai about five years ago and never bothered to get the film developed. My wife shot a ton of photos using print film with her Leica and I suppose we both felt that this sufficed.

Last night, we took out some of our old slides from various trips--mostly to see which ones we want to scan--and I can't help but wonder what would happen if I had those Kauai rolls developed. They have not been exposed to exteme heat, but have not been refrigerated either. Do you think any of them would be salvageable in Photoshop, or do you think it would be a waste of time and money? What problems would five years of sitting around cause?

I would give it a try. You might experience some sort of color shift though. Depending on severity, you might be able to eliminate that completely in Photoshop.

Some time ago I found two rolls of medium format b/w film I exposed 25 years ago. I had them developed and they turned out almost unharmed (a bit soft in contrast). The most important part was, that all of a sudden, long forgotten memories were revived. Sort of a time capsule. The image quality was not really important.

Cheers,

Andreas

Send one in first to see how it looks. If it is good or salvagable then send in the rest.

I would send them in to be developed. From what I understand, Kodachrome is processed similarly to B&W with the color "added" as part of the process. This being a rather complicated process and thus was not doable like the E-6 process where the color was part of the film emulsion.

Please keep us posted on this as I have a few exposed film backs dating several years from my best friend that pass away a few years ago.


Don

OK, I will let you all know how they turn out. It won't be for a while though; I'm headed to Vancouver Island for a few days later this week, then Russia next month.

Thanks for the advice folks.

Kevin

I've developed film that was loaded in an Olympus Stylus Epic P&S camera that sat in my car's glove box for about two years. Was expecting warped or melted negatives, but had them processed and they looked great. Prints were clean with very little color shifts (reds seemed a bit more on the magenta side).