According to the leaflet that comes back from Kodak, they stop accepting prepaid films at the end of November. You'll have to be quick!

K.

Going on ebay Sunday if no interest.

K.

Going on ebay Sunday if no interest.

K.

Going on ebay Sunday if no interest.

K.

My last roll.




I know, I'm a nerd.

K.

I like the ant hill image although I would crop it to get it on the "rule of diagonals" line.

K.

I don't know about esteemed, but I am glad the camera has gone to a good home and is getting some use! Nice opening set, too.

Best wishes, Kris.

As I have said several times elsewhere, I agree with you. The original slides have much nicer colours than these scans and are much sharper. For some reason, all my scanned slides of whatever make (Kodak, Fuji, Agfa, boots...) end up with a purple/magenta hue which I can sometimes get rid of (if there is a neutral shade to click on), sometimes I just cannot seem to correct it. Vuescan (when it hasn't crashed yet again) does have a K14 setting. Also, I really ought to put them in glass mounts to improve the focus. Sadly, my funds don't really stretch to a top-of-the-line slide scanner or paying to get them done professionally. Mind you, I have read a lot of comments about how disappointed people have been with "pro" scans.

As to fading, most of my slides are stored in archival quality hanging files. Once I have got some new filing cabinets (I binned the old one when I moved earlier in the year), I will purchase enough hanging files for the remainder of my slides. The K64 images are as good as the day I got them back from Kodak. Some of the others have faded, particularly the Boots home-brand ones. After yesterday, I doubt I'll ever shoot another 35mm transparency although I'll keep on shooting medium and large format ones.

Kris.

Try some PEC fluid. Expensive, but goes a long way and effective. They also do lint-free PEC pads (essentially tissues) too.

K.

Thanks to the sunshine yesterday, I shot most of my last two rolls. I finished off the last five frames this morning in the snow. I'll get them in the post today and they should make the end of November deadline... just.

For old times sake I shot the last roll using an ME Super (not my original one) and the last few frames were taken using my original SMC Pentax-M 50mm f1:2 lens. The first photograph I ever took using an SLR was using this combination on the 19th July 1982.

Oh well, all good things come to an end.

Best wishes, Kris.