Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:18 AM 12/2/96 -0500, you wrote: >More often than not, frame 39 comes back from Kodalux unmounted and >cut in half. I'm half tempted to rewind every roll at 37 just so I >don't miss those pictures that end up sliced. I guess that it is too >close to the end such that their automated Kodachrome machine cuts it >up before processing. > Well, to start with, if at all possible I wouldn't use Kodalux. There are still some alternatives for Kodachrome, I think--one is BWC (I think that's the name) in Miami Beach (if they are still doing Kodachrome--Kodak just discontinued K64 in medium format and a lot of their business was MF fashion)--I always found them excellent, and they didn't cut up rolls. Kodalux, on the other hand....there are lots of stories, but my favorite was the period of about a year when their machine chopped up the first picture on every roll of Kodachrome I sent them. Repeated complaints produced the response that it must be the camera, but I sent them rolls from different cameras. I checked with other photogs, and they had the same problem. The decision Kodak made to sell their processing to a drugstore processor (a big one, but low quality--Qualux) was the beginning of the end for Kodachrome, I think. It saved Kodak money since they fired all their experienced staff, but the quality went way down. I think I heard somewhere that Kodak boughtthe processing back very recently--anyone know? Charlie Charles E. Love, Jr. CEL14@CORNELL.EDU