Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I shot mostly Fuji for work stuff after the early 80's, but still
shot a lot of Kodachrome for myself until the early 90's.
In the 70's there was a local Kodak lab here in North Vancouver which
of course had great turnaround making it entirely suitable for
professional work. When that closed the closest lab was in Toronto,
which was too slow, but it took a while for the local labs to do
truly professional Ektachrome and Fuji processing, and the longevity
of the emulsions was still very suspect. When those hurdles were
cleared (more or less) in the 80's I gradually migrated away from
Kodachrome even for personal stuff but kept using it until the
processing and mailing got even sketchier. After 2000 there was no
point whatsoever in using it here as the turnaround started being
about 6 weeks, with more lost slides and more and more dirt and
scratches. Also, I had been using Fuji for all my professional stuff
in the larger formats as well, and a local lab here that had
installed a very sophisticated line that I had some part in
developing and that maintained much tighter tolerances than Kodak
ever had got all of my business.
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Henning J. Wulff
Wulff Photography & Design
mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com
http://www.archiphoto.com