Hell, people buy "high end" designer water for $8.00+ dollars a bottle.
If Kodak can't can't figure out how to leverage the mystique of
Kodachrome so that they can make a profit on it they should really hang
it up. The added cost should be weighed against the special archival
properties of Kodachrome. Not everything deserves Kodachrome some
things probably do, and other's can at least "made to seem" to require
it. By the way Kodachrome only takes a long time because it has to be
sent to only one lab for processing, maybe they only run that process
once a week, or maybe demand is so high that the line is running
constantly either way is inefficient, which shows a long term lack of
commitment, which both contributes to and results from a death spiral.
Adam Maas wrote:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM, P. J.
Alling<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm kind of tired of Paul Simon whining. Kodachrome deserves a better
epitaph. Strangely as a product it still seems to sell for less and cost
less for processing than more recent film products. The fact that Kodak
can't seem to make a profit by leveraging some of the mystique, (it's a
special niche, almost boutique, product so it should be promoted as one), is
a sad comment on how far a marketing giant has fallen.
The problem with Kodachrome is that it is far more difficult to
process than E-6 slide films. So processing is expensive and takes a
long time (the last roll I had done cost me $20 and took 4 weeks, that
was last fall). E-6 is as cheap to buy, costs way less to process and
the turnaround is far shorter (I get my E-6 on a 3 our turnaround).
That said, I'll shoot a roll of K25 today. Have 2 left in the fridge.
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