Kodak do all their own processing here. Apparantly, in the US it was against
some law. Most other countries you buy it with the processing already paid
for.
All my slide mounts since 1995? have been plastic, not cardboard.
Kodachrome apparantly has less life when projected often, but how often do I
project my slides? Not very often. If I were going to I would get a copy
anyway.
The problem is the NOW generation. What a home loan? Get it now. Want
service? get it now. Want photos? Get it now. Hence the increase in E6, 1
hour labs and digital. Forget about quality, get it now.
My view anyway.
Foxy
Then there are those of us who have never liked the look of
Kodachrome, from the inability to do a decent job with browns, to
blown out detail in reds, and the infamous "Kodachrome sky". Sort
of, who cares if it lasts a long time if you did not like it in the
first place. While other films continued to be developed and
improved, pressure from fans whose loyalty sometimes exceeded their
judgment caused Kodak to keep making it more or less the same with
minor changes like speed for a dwindling group of aging enthusiasts.
Sorry. But that is my take on it. Fans who wanted it to stay the
same killed it.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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