After years of promises Kodak began supplying the new Ektachrome reversal film to retailers in the UK. Initially 35mm reversal (slide) film appeared in stores followed by Super 8 stock. Frame 24 (http://frame24.co.uk) announced on social media that they had received 25 rolls and after a painful visit to the online store I became the proud owner of five 50ft rolls of 7294.
At £54 inc. VAT per roll this is far and away the most expensive Super 8 film I have ever bought. The price doesn’t included processing so it’s a huge change from Kodachrome which used to be £12 process-paid with the yellow packet to return the film to Kodak.
Kodachrome was removed from sale in 2009 by Kodak who cited falling demand along with its complicated and environmentally unfriendly developing process. I suspect that Super 8 Kodachrome was discontinued earlier since the project Sea City started by buying 10 rolls of K40 in 2006. This was the last time I used Kodachrome.
Ektachrome 100D 7285 became a replacement for 64T which although a substantially different film also used the widely available E6 processing chemistry.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110713173000/http://1000words.kodak.com/thousandwords/post/?id=2388083
Touted as a replacement for K40, the tungsten balanced 64T caused problems as many Super 8 cameras couldn’t handle the ISO of this film.