RE: [Leica] Kodachrome Blues: No man I got The BLUES

["Lee, Ken" <ken.lee@hbc.com>]

I recently found 1 roll of K64 in the bottom of the freezer. It was at least
5 years old and the price included processing. I shot the roll and since the
prepaid mailer had been lost long ago, took the film to a camera store in a
suburb of Toronto. The film was back in a week with no processing charge. I
don't know where Kodak Canada sends the film now, but the turn around time
was acceptable to me for personal work. This is the first time I shot
Kodachrome with Leica glass. I was blown away! E6 always looks too contrasty
and dark to me. I thought it was just me screwing up the exposure with E6
film. I am going to try some different E6 labs to see if it is the
processing, but I am going to get some more K64 also.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Collier [SMTP:jbcollier@home.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, February 05, 2000 5:46 PM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	Re: [Leica] Kodachrome Blues: No man I got The BLUES
> 
> Well actually the film sold in Canada is marked that the included
> processing
> is not valid in the U.S.A. I guess Kodak Canada must have changed who they
> contract for their developing and probably do send the stuff to Germany. I
> am pleased to see a number of the small lab units were set up at least in
> the U.S.A. The next lot of film I buy I will source from maybe B&H and
> send
> to Seattle! 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John Collier
> 
> > From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)
> > Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:20:00 -0800
> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Kodachrome Blues
> > 
> > I doubt if they're shipping it to Europe from Canada. Below is the link
> to
> > Kodak's list of labs using the K-Lab processor (an automated Kodachrome
> > processor they intro-ed a few years ago, and which seems to have
> supplanted
> > the traditional K-14 processing line). I send my Kodachrome to either
> the
> > Tukwila plant (down by SeaTac airport) for next-day service, or to A&I
> in
> > Los Angeles through a local store (3-day turnaround, by FedEx). You can
> get
> > mailers for both Kodak's labs and for A&I, which ought to give you
> better
> > than 5-week turnaround.
> > 
> > http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/products/klabs/dealers.shtml
> > 
> > Chuck Albertson
> > Seattle, Wash.
> > 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John
> >> Collier
> >> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 10:45 AM
> >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >> Subject: [Leica] Kodachrome Blues
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I have been noticing in the last couple of years that the local stores
> are
> >> stocking less and less Kodachrome. I, unfortunately, really like the
> stuff
> >> and use it as my main film. Processing turn around times went
> >> from one week
> >> to two weeks three years or so back but now they have jumped to
> >> FIVE weeks!
> >> The store I deal with said the two week time was due to it having
> >> to be sent
> >> to the eastern USA. Canada lost both its plants a while ago. Now
> >> that it is
> >> five weeks they speculated that it had to go to Europe! Is this the end
> of
> >> Kodachrome. Are there no more plants in North America? If you have
> heard
> >> anything I would be grateful for news.
> >> 
> >> John Collier
> >> 
> >