[rollei_list] Re: Kodachrome

Emmanuel
Chacun a son gout and all that but do you  feel there are some areas where
K'chrome  shines  over the more modern slide films?
rgds
Chat

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Emmanuel Bigler
<Emmanuel.Bigler@xxxxxxxx>wrote:

> chatanooga@xxxxxxxxx a écrit :
>
>> Oops, a liitle bit of research confirms that one can continue to send it
>> to Lausanne. rgds Chat
>>
>
> Yes, this is so simple.
> From France I have to pay 1.25 euro extra for postage to Lausanne, the
> beloved Case Postale CH-1001, Lausanne, Swiss Confederation.
>
> So the overall price to pay for my 39 slides (I use a Rollei 35 and always
> manage to get 39 slides for 36 ;-) is what you can compute from the
> process-paid price of your best European Kodachrome dealer ; plus, for me,
> 1.25 euro.
> It takes about 12-13 days altogether to come back home after a complex
> journey, crossing the snowy Jura on a mule's back, then after a check-point
> at Renens (VD), be stuffed inside a container at Zurich airport, eventually
> reach Kansas by a pionneer's horse-wagon, be processed there by proud and
> beloved craftsmen that we wish to support faithfully, then back to the Swiss
> Riviera, and back to my remote place re-crossing the Jura.
>
> But this is so convenient.
>
> There are no longer any local E6 lab in my town, I have to mail order and
> mail-send everything for slide film and slide processing. Now we have to
> think in terms of a global European market, including Kansas which really
> deserves to be considered as a Western appendix of Canton-de-Vaud,
> Switzerland ;-)
>
> So as paradoxical at it may seem, 135 Kodachrome Kansas-processed-paid is
> an excellent choice for me both in terms of price & service.
>
>
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> Emmanuel
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