Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:57 PM 12/3/96 -0500, you wrote: > >Yes, Kodak is back in the kodachrome developing business. There has >been a noticeable change for the better in quality control: it is now >called Kodak Premium Processing on the slide mounts. I use the prepaid >mailers bought at a discount and patiently wait the one week turnaround > time. I'm glad to hear this, though my frustration with the lousy processing and the poor quality control on Kodachrome caused me to shop around, and I now use Velvia and Provia for my landscape work. > It is my understanding that Kodak originally divested >themselves of the processing business as part of their settlement with >the Environmental Protection Agency re their huge pollution problem at >Rochester, NY. May be, although they had a number of labs in locations other than Rochester, so I don't see why they would have had to give it up. >Although I use plenty of Fujichrome, IMHO, Kodachrome and Leicas were >made for each other. Well, I ran a lot through mine (use MF more now). Do you think there's some special color balance issue that makes this true (i.e., do Leica lenses have some special quality that works best with Kodachrome)? >Mike Gardner Charlie Charles E. Love, Jr. CEL14@CORNELL.EDU