On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM, P. J. Alling<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm kind of tired of Paul Simon whining. Kodachrome deserves a better > epitaph. Strangely as a product it still seems to sell for less and cost > less for processing than more recent film products. The fact that Kodak > can't seem to make a profit by leveraging some of the mystique, (it's a > special niche, almost boutique, product so it should be promoted as one), is > a sad comment on how far a marketing giant has fallen. >
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). That said, I'll shoot a roll of K25 today. Have 2 left in the fridge. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
