[larrywright]

> The collection’s 75 undeveloped rolls of Kodachrome film likely amount to about 2,700 photos

I wonder how they’re planning on developing that film, since the chemicals to develop Kodachrome haven’t been available since 2010.

[shagie]

The chemicals aren't being made (sold) by Kodak anymore, but the chemicals are known and if you sat down with a chemical engineer you could brew up another batch. It certainly wouldn't be cheap, but it's not impossible.

There've even been some DIY projects to develop some of the film. https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorspider/48558429727/in/ph...

[FirmwareBurner]

>the chemicals are known and if you sat down with a chemical engineer you could brew up another batch

Jesse, let's cook.

[ostacke]

And even with the chemicals, it's a notoriously convoluted process.

But of course there's always someone who's done it in their garage[1].

[1]: https://emulsive.org/articles/darkroom/developing-film/they-...

[limitedfrom]

Back in 2020, VSCO and Kelly Shane Fuller (same one from [0]) seemed to have figured it out, at least to make a preset. Perhaps if they are willing to put in the effort, they should reach out to them (and not just fall back to developing in B&W).

https://eng.vsco.co/reviving-kodachrome/

[0] https://emulsive.org/articles/darkroom/developing-film/they-...

[buildbot]

There’s at least one company that does kodachrome, but not in color: https://processonephoto.com/mail-order-film-processing.htm