Rocky Mountain Photo Labs in Denver will push process Kodachrome. It isn't worth the effort in my opinion as the results are aweful. John "Peter K." wrote: > > In the US there is only two places to get K14 processing. Swaynes in > Kansas and Kodak. So it is dying a slow death to be sure. > > On 6/2/05, Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'd regret if Kodak discontinue Kodachrome 35mm slides > > production, I think it is not available for our market > > today, however Kodachrome is linked to my childhood. > > My father took hundreds of Kodachrome 35 mm slides > > using his Diax IIb and the Xenon Schneider 50 mm lens, > > also other lenses that I don't remember now. > > Writing from my childhood's memory, I remember that > > Kodachrome 35mm film was sold within an aluminium > > case, my father commented that the Kodachrome films > > were developed by an important lab and factory that > > Kodak had in the Panam=E1 Canal Zone. He put the film > > within a portable icebox if we traveled. The local lab > > sent the exposed film to Kodak in Buenos Aires, and > > then they sent the film to Panam=E1; after three or four > > months and thousands and thousands of kilometers we > > could enjoy the projected images with their wonderful > > colors. > > My father abandoned the photography ending the 60s' > > and around 1980 I remembered the Kodachrome slides > > looking for them. I found the slides, but my father > > believing to protect the slides put each one between > > glasses, the glasses condensed humidity and the > > results were a disaster, the slides got humidity and > > fungus. I could save around 90 slides using a liquid > > to clean them that a lab recommended and sold to me, > > but we lost hundreds. > > I enjoyed again those marvelous colors but due to the > > changes in our family I don't know who or where are > > the Kodachrome slides now, I'll ask to my relatives > > about them. > > Kodachrome were the best 35mm slides for me. > >=20 > > All the best > > Carlos > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > --- Thor Legvold <tlegvold@xxxxxxx> escribi=F3: > >=20 > > > In Europe Kodachrome is still prepaid, and > > > processing is done in > > > Switzerland. I believe they're the last K-14 lab > > > operating in Europe > > > (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I do my part in > > > keeping it alive by > > > ordering as many rolls as I can manage. Dropping 8mm > > > might not affect > > > the rest of the product, as the article stated that > > > 16mm and 35mm > > > (motion picture) would still be produced and > > > processed. Isn't the 35mm > > > transparency stock about the same thing as 35mm > > > motion picture film? > > > > > > Thor > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2. jun. 2005, at 04.09, Jerry Lehrer wrote: > > > > > > > Richard, > > > > > > > > I still have a few prepaid Kodachrome mailers for > > > > Long Beach, not Rochester. > > > > > > > > Jerry > > > > > > > > Richard Knoppow wrote: > > > > > > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > > > >> From: "John Jensen" <jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 3:36 PM > > > >> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: 'Kodak, Don't Take My > > > Kodachrome' > > > >> > > > >>> Richard, it was in the early 50s (1954?, 1955?) > > > that > > > >>> the courts ruled that the monopoly Kodak had on > > > >>> processing Kodachrome had to stop. As a result > > > of > > > >>> that ruling, independent labs could get into the > > > >>> business of processing Kodachrome. If Kodak > > > wanted to > > > >>> stop processing Kodachrome they could > > > have/should have > > > >>> stopped then. But they didn't. > > > >>> > > > >>> John > > > >>> > > > >> I'm not sure what issues the court decided. The > > > main one > > > >> was that Kodak was including the price of > > > processing in the > > > >> price of the film. I think by that time Kodak had > > > already > > > >> licensed some independent labs to process > > > Kodachrome to take > > > >> the load off Rochester, but I am not sure. I > > > think its > > > >> likely that Kodak never made much money from > > > processing. The > > > >> film was sold as a system, much like Kodak's > > > original box > > > >> camera which was returned to the factory for > > > processing and > > > >> printing and returned loaded with fresh film. > > > >> I think Kodachrome is a victim of the > > > shrinking market > > > >> for film. Remember, that Kodak and Agfa are very > > > large > > > >> companies who made enormous volumes of > > > photographic > > > >> products. When the market for something shrinks > > > there are a > > > >> lot of operating costs that don't shrink, I think > > > this is > > > >> what all of the photo products companies are > > > fighting. > > > >> Kodak, at least, seems to be trying to keep some > > > aspect of > > > >> their original business but the pressures of > > > having to > > > >> return a reasonable profit to investors pretty > > > much limits > > > >> what management can do. Some management is simply > > > ruthless > > > >> about loosing parts of a company, sell them off > > > for what can > > > >> be gotten or simply eliminate them, take a one > > > time charge, > > > >> and be finished with it. Where there is a stable > > > or > > > >> expanding market there is reason to try to fix > > > poorly > > > >> performing businesses but where there is simply > > > not much of > > > >> a market, or it is shrinking, the problem is not > > > a broken > > > >> business that could expand its share but a simple > > > lack of a > > > >> place to sell the products no matter how well > > > they are made > > > >> or how well the company is run. This is a > > > completely > > > >> different thing in my mind from the disastrous > > > and > > > >> reprehensible mis-management of companies like > > > General > > > >> Motors or the big steel companies in the U.S. who > > > just > > > >> decided to shut down whole cities and move > > > elsewhere. Those > > > >> moves were made in an attempt to substantially > > > reduce > > > >> operating costs by eliminating well paid labor, > > > this is > > > >> something else. I wish Kodak luck in preserving > > > their > > > >> traditional business. Actually I also wish Ilford > > > and Agfa > > > >> well, but even if one or all survive they will do > > > so in a > > > >> different form than existed in the past. > > > >> > > > >> --- > > > >> Richard Knoppow > > > >> Los Angeles, CA, USA > > > >> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >> > > > >> --- > > > >> Rollei List > > > >> > > > >> - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >> > > > >> - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > with 'subscribe' > > > >> in the subject field OR by logging into > > > www.freelists.org > > > >> > > > >> - Unsubscribe at > > > rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > > > >> 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging > > > into > > > >> www.freelists.org > > > >> > > > >> - Online, searchable archives are available at > > > >> //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list > > > > > > > > --- > > > > Rollei List > > > > > > > > - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > with 'subscribe' > > > > in the subject field OR by logging into > > > www.freelists.org > > > > > > > > - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > with > > > > 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging > > > into www.freelists.org > > > > > > > > - Online, searchable archives are available at > > > > //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Rollei List > > > > > > - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > with 'subscribe' > > > in the subject field OR by logging into > > > www.freelists.org > > > > > > - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > with > > > 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging > > > into www.freelists.org > > > > > > - Online, searchable archives are available at > > > //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list > > > > > > > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > ___________________________________________________________ > > 1GB gratis, Antivirus y Antispam > > Correo Yahoo!, el mejor correo web del mundo > > http://correo.yahoo.com.ar > >=20 > > --- > > Rollei List > >=20 > > - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >=20 > > - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' > > in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > >=20 > > - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > > 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > >=20 > > - Online, searchable archives are available at > > //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list > >=20 > >=20 > > --=20 > Peter K > =D3=BF=D5=AC > --- > Rollei List > > - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' > in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > > - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > > - Online, searchable archives are available at > //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list