Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:36 AM 6/5/99 -0700, you wrote: >So you've heard this too! The problem is to this day I have never seen a >faded Kodachrome slide. I'm sure they probably exist. Both myself and my >father in law have apparently not been baking the individual slide in >the enlarger for minutes at a time but move them right along. MY old >Ektachromes (no Fuji then but it's E6) have all changed. >This is a major reason I stand firm for them. When at the LHSA meeting I >saw three or four slide shows 95% Kodachrome. At the end of a slide show >the photograher would say "And now I've moved on to that new _____ film >as it's taking longer to have the Kodachrome projected" (or whatever) >"I've found them to be every way as good or better that "the old" >Kodachrome" then they would be projected and they would look like >doodoo. Then at the very end they would say "IM sorry! Here are a few >old Kodachomes again at the very end for some reason" and they would >light up the screen with gorgousness. There is no comparison, there are >no substitutes, and these guys are famous or should be and are >projecting originals! >Mark Rabiner I loved Kodachrome and used it exclusively for years, until Kodak abandoned it to Qualex or whatever. They were routinely ruining over 30% of the film I sent them. I have a whole file of "sorry, but due to a processing error" letters with reimbursement for film costs only. When I traveled to very remote places carrying that film for miles on my back and avoided perilous airport x-rays with great difficulty, it really teed me off to have them send me the film replacement costs instead of the fantastic, award-winning photos I knew I had on that film!! When they make a Kodachrome that I can develop myself, I'll go back to it. In the meantime Fuji gets my business. Leically, Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com/