[serjohn]

Tri-x to me is the classic looking black and white film. Very forgiving of exposure error, you can underexpose the roll one stop and not need to push stop it. I’ve shot it at EI1600 with decent results. I will usually use D-76 developer with it either full strenght or mixed 1:1 with water (ie 4oz d-76 mix and 4oz water) which gives a bit finer grain.

[serjohn]

Thing to remember is that Kodachrome also has a much longer time before it will fade. IIRC it’s something on the order of 100 years stored properly. It has to do with the fact that it is basically a black and white film at the time of exposure and the colors are added at the time of processing through something called dye layers. Google Kodachrome processing and it will tell you how it’s done, it’s a very very involved process and that’s why there never was and will never be a home processing kit. Long live Kodachrome!

[serjohn]

Hopefully the place you sent the Ektachrome knows what they are doing since it it’s older then the mid 70’s (?) it would be an E4 process not E6 which is what current slide film uses, except Kodachrome which uses (soon to be used 🙁 ) K-14. HTH

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