Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Deterioration of slide images
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 00:50:44 +0000

At 06:31 PM 6/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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- come and live in the UK. Kodak still processes Kodachrome here, and
they don't screw it up!
>
>
>Tina Manley, ASMP
>http://www.tinamanley.com/
>
>

Joe Berenbaum