Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] Re:kodachrome
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Tue Jan 31 15:02:27 2006

I suspect George's experience was with the older processing machine, not the 
K-lab.  IIRC the K-lab was supposed to do away with the need for a full-time 
chemist et al.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

-----Original Message-----
>From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>
>Sent: Jan 31, 2006 2:56 PM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:kodachrome
>
>No problem George. Ted, Tina and B.D. have volunteered to emigrate to 
>Netherlands to run the machine and do the job for Fred Hess and the rest of 
>us investors.
>
>Strong regards,
>
>Seth
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist@imagist.cnc.net>
>To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:44 PM
>Subject: [Leica] Re:kodachrome
>
>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodachrome--Any Indication of Its Future
>>
>>> Let's form a bl**dy consortium and buy the thing!!!
>>
>> Believe me; you don't want to do that. Back in college I worked third
>> shift production processing with these beasts. We had a complete
>> Laboratory with full time lab tech to monitor the chemistry plus 2
>> machine techs to handle the loading and film breaks (which set off an
>> alarm horn that scared the **** out of you). It took two of us 45 min to
>> an hour to clean the sucker before shutting it down. There's reasons
>> that this technology is going bye bye.
>>
>> regards, George
>>
>>
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