Fortunately there's still currently a few local film processing 'print'
shops which do one-hour film processing in the UK at the moment. How long
they will remain is anybody's guess - but so far they still going strong I
think.
Menawhile, even the post office can now do prints from memory cards of
various descriptions - so it may soon be worrying times for film users.
Allan
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>From: "Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] Re: [lens] Re: OT - on returning to film
>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:38:20 -0400
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > I dunno - my chromes and slides have done a great job outlasting any
>cd's
> > I've burned. So far it seems that the dependable lifespan of my stored
> > cd's
> > without any corrupted files is only 2 years, and I store them carefully.
> > I
> > have wonderful slides from 30 years ago that are every bit as bright as
> > when
> > they were new. And they're not even Kodachrome, they're E-6. Just my
> > personal empirical observation, ymmv.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
>I shot some Kodachrome 64 over the holidays, partly because I have some I
>want to use up, and partly because I want pics of the family and grandkids
>that will last and last without a lot of bother. When I took the film to
>the
>usual camera store, where they process my E6, they just looked at me like I
>was some sort of dinosaur, and said they had no idea where or how to send
>it, or that it could even be developed now. I explained that Kodak still
>makes and sells it, and that it needed to go to the only remaining lab in
>the US. They just sent me out the door with a wish of good luck. Anyways, I
>contacted Kodak by email, and wouldn't you know, they said take it to
>WalMart, which now handles it for them, or contact the US lab directly, and
>they gave me the 800 number.
>Wayne
>
>
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