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

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Subject: [Leica] Re:kodachrome
From: sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)
Date: Tue Jan 31 14:56:18 2006
References: <r02010500-1044-D2174BE792A211DA89590011246F5C92@[66.239.170.188]>

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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