This question you bring up recalls my question I posted about 10 days ago and
not one person picked up on the topic and replied. What do you think the
future is for your sending exposed film to labs around the U.S. since the
Post Office and, I believe FedEx started zapping mail with cobalt radiation
to kill off any possible anthrax spores. If it'll kill the anthrax, I assume
it'll also kill your Kodachromes. Could this be the source of damage some of
you have recently posted about, and not the lab's fault? U.S. Postal began
zapping the mail October 25th 2001.
George S.
> Hello fellow Zuiks,
>
> It crosses my mind that as a group we need a fall-back position to take
> good
> care of exposed film when there is a danger that over-zealous airport
> people
> will insist on ruining your precious cargo.
>
> What I suggest is that we build up a list of competent and trusted photo-
> processors around the world and in states, that we can take our un-
> developed film to for processing followed by postage home or pick-up prior
> to
> flying out..
>
> I'll start the ball rolling by naming:-
>
> 1) Kodak Melbourne Australia for first-class processing of Kodachrome for
> Australian and New Zealand clients.
>
> 2) Viko in Auckland NZ (agents all over NZ) for good print developing and
> printing. (I have no recent experience, so others might care to comment)
>
> 3) PhotoCorp in Christchurch NZ for MF and larger E6 transparencies.
> Maybe they do 35mm as well. I send through my photolab.
>
> What do you think?
>
> This would be a good resource to have on the web. Maybe I could host it.
>
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