In still photography, Kodak's Kodacolor brand has been associated with various color negative films (i.e. film intended for making color prints with) since 1942.^[1] Kodak claim that Kodacolor print film was the world's first true color negative film. The Kodacolor name has subsequently been used on several negative films, including Kodacolor-X, Kodacolor VR and Kodacolor Gold. Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of captering light on a film. ... Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) is a large multinational public company producing photographic equipment. ... Color, positive picture (A) and negative (B), monochrome positive picture (C) and negative (D) In photography, a negative may refer to 3 different things, although they are all related. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...

Latterly, the Kodacolor name has been used less frequently, with such films often using the Kodak brand alone.

Varieties of Kodacolor-branded print film

Kodacolor-X

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The film was designed to be procesed in the C-22 process, which was the predecessor to today's C-41 process. C-22 is an obsolete photographic process, superseded by the C-41 process from 1972. ... C-41 is the name given to the process for developing a specific type of color print film used in photography and often to the type of film itself. ...

Only a few speciality labs still process this film, due to the length of discontinuation. Surviving Kodacolor-X and C-22 films can still yield images, although it requires highly specialist recovery techniques.

References

1. ^ Kodak History: 1930 - 1959, kodak.com. Article retrieved 2006-12-02.

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External links

For Kodacolor-X:

• Processing of older Kodacolor films requiring Process C-22 :
  • Process C-22 UK, Europe and Australia
  • Film Rescue USA and Canada
  • Rocky Mountain USA