hi, where do you do the Kodakchrome developing in NYC? How much do they charge?

thanks

-- Jeff Liao (jliao66@aol.com), February 20, 2001

Answers

I buy PK-36 mailers from B&H and send to the Kodak lab in Fairlawn, NJ. You can check with B&H for their current price on the mailers. The last time I bought they were under $5.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), February 20, 2001.

It worries me that Kodachrome could be discontinued entirely one day. I bought a few rolls of Kodachrome 25, with processing mailers. That was when I noticed that the processing mailers also have expiration dates! These dates are still far off (in 2004), but they are not limitless. So, I will have to shoot up the Kodachrome 25 before too long. If Kodak wants to keep only one Kodachrome, I'd like to see them make an ISO 100 Kodachrome; otherwise, I'd opt for the 64 over the 200. I actually would have preferred to have been left with the Kodachrome 25, and had the 64 and 200 ISO dropped. Kodachrome is an American institution!

-- Frank Horn (owlhoot45@hotmail.com), December 22, 2001.

A dying American institution.

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), December 22, 2001.

I agree with Frank. I could do without K 200. It seems too grainy to me, projected. And the reds are exaggerated. I'd have preferred a Kodachrome limited to the fastest that can be made with the grain just below, or at, the threshold of visibility when projected to say, 6 feet wide, with a 12 foot viewing distance. I suspect that might be around ISO 125, or maybe 100, as Frank suggests. I'd have wanted to keep the 25 and 64 versions.

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), December 23, 2001.

The problem with Kodachrome is the lack of processing options. I've had a lot of problems with Kodak processing and it's just not worth going through the stress over the results. I've had mis-processed film and I've had real problems with uncut film, which is what I get, sometimes crushed in the envelope.

In all fairness, let me say that Kodak customer service has been responsive and I now get custom handling, but how many people can they do that for?

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), December 23, 2001.