Scott Loveless 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.
While I was living in Rochester I knew a lot of people who worked at Kodak. Kodak put a lot of money and years of research into trying to build a Kodachrome "minilab". They just couldn't get it to work; that's what doomed Kodachrome. -- 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.
