On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Scott Loveless<[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/23/09, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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). > > The real problem with Kodachrome was that Kodak raised the price by > about 35% last year. It's not exactly a big secret that they've > wanted to ditch the film business for a while now, but raising the > price (justified or not) and then blaming it's demise on their > ex-customers is a bit slimy, IMHO. > > For those of us in the US, getting Kodachrome processed wasn't any > more hassle than any other film. Either send it directly to Dwayne's > or drop it off pretty much anywhere that sends film to Fuji or Kodak. > Wal-Mart usually took about a week and a half and ran about $5. I > don't think I'd even consider shooting the stuff if I lived outside > the US, though. > > -- > Scott Loveless
Wasn't any more hassle? I repeat. 3 hours and $10 for E-6. 4 weeks and $20 for Kodachrome. That's in Toronto, where turnarounds are the same as for the US (and I'm paying essentially US pricing, just a slightly higher shipping portion). Dwayne's pricing for processing (no shipping) is $9USD for a 36 exposure roll. Return shipping is at the senders cost. Even if the shipping cost is being eaten by the sender (as it was for Walmart), the turnaround is still awful these days. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
