[Leica] E6 processing - bygone days...

[wanderjan at gmail.com (Jan Decher)]

Stan,
All Fuji in the US may be going to Parsons, Kansas, soon.  I buy US$11
mailers at my local camera store to send them there.  It's prohibitively
expensive withthe purchase price of the film  and I am probably just using
up my remaining stock of Sensia and Velvia, then switch to Ektar 100 (and
B&W)  for my Leica and Rolleiflex pix and the rest goes digital.

Gone are the days when I paid 3 Deutsche Mark (then ca. 1.6 US$)  for
processing a 36 Exp. roll of  Agfachrome 50S in L?denscheid, Germany (2-day
service).  In those days you would buy Kodachrome 25 & 64  and Agfa CT18 +
21 in Germany typically with the processing mailers included for ca. 8 and 5
US$, respectively (Kodak was always more expensive over there).  I would
send my films from the vacation location to Bonn (Agfa) or Stuttgart (Kodak)
and the slides would be in my mailbox when I got back home.
Jan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stan Yoder <s.yoder at verizon.net>
Where (other than pro labs) do you have your E6 slidefilm processed/mounted?
I've been using Fuji, via a regional supermarket store nearby. The most
recent took two weeks and the charge was $12 with only about a dozen
mounted. Fuji used to have a center in Mansfield OH, not very far from
Pittsburgh here, and the slide turnover was about a week, but now the stuff
goes to Albany NY - much farther - and maybe they send the E6 farther still.
I'd like to keep using, at least occasionally, my M7 and M5, and prefer
slidefilm, but maybe I'll have to go to color neg., like the new Ektar 100,
if I can't find better slide service.
Stan Yoder
Pittsburgh