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I've been having a bit of tidy up with a view to rationalisition of my camera bags and have unearthed a number of rolls of Fujichrome E6 35mm with expiry dates ranging from 2001 to 2005. Also a couple of Kodak Ultra C41 dated 2006. None of these have been in a fridge/freezer, just in the camera bags.

Anybody know if these are likely to produce anything reasonable? And will Fuji still process for free the pre-paid E6 stuff?
 
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you'll get usable results from those dates easily, there may be a slight colour shift but nothing you cant deal with in photoshop. I'm noty sure if Fuji will honour prepaid stuff which is significantly past it's expiry but it's worth giving their processing lab CC Imaging in Leeds an Email to see though

http://www.ccimaging.co.uk/
 
I'd make sure you can get it processed first - it isn't E6 and wasn't one for home-processing back in the day.
 
robhooley167 said:
you'll get usable results from those dates easily, there may be a slight colour shift but nothing you cant deal with in photoshop. I'm noty sure if Fuji will honour prepaid stuff which is significantly past it's expiry but it's worth giving their processing lab CC Imaging in Leeds an Email to see though

http://www.ccimaging.co.uk/
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I just clicked on that link at it didn't take me to where I expected it too.

Are ccimaging and http://www.fujifilmprocessinglaboratory.co.uk/ the same place?
 
Colour Kodachrome processing is not possible as all the colour developers, dyes, bleach etc unique to it have been discontinued and as thats from 1974 when the newer K-14 process emulsions came out it could possibly be an older K-12 process version which is different to the last K-14 process and would be even more difficult to process as the chemicals have been unavailable for many years.

However it is possible to develop Kodachrome as a B&W neg as thats what effectively anyway as the colour dyes are uniquely added during processing and not present in the emulsion. The first developer of the K-14 process is a B&W Ilford PQ developer so it is possible to just do that step and then skip the rest of the process (apart from the subsequent wash/stop) to the fixer and end up with just a B&W neg.

Just for reference, here is the complete K-14M process, compare it to have 'simple' E-6 and C-41 really are and this is 'simple' compared to the original process in 1935 which used over 22 chemical baths!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-14_process
 
For the record, they just got back to me and are still honouring the old process-paid stuff.
 
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