Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] Kodachrome--Any Indication of Its Future
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue Jan 31 21:10:01 2006
References: <200601221635.k0MGWu8l003417@server1.waverley.reid.org> <001601c61f73$61251c80$6601a8c0@none729d257894> <022001c625da$634dd020$56e74142@D1S9FY41> <E4848085-85B9-4F9B-85FC-88741D5BE93A@shaw.ca> <026f01c625e9$fb2f5a30$56e74142@D1S9FY41> <E34418D9-C7EF-432C-8119-A1186743DABF@shaw.ca> <028001c625f4$6ba71dc0$56e74142@D1S9FY41> <6.2.5.6.2.20060131003537.02e77358@screengang.com>

That could be a good or a bad sign, Didier--when I lived in Switzerland 
(until 2003) I used almost exclusively Kodachrome. It was (and is) my 
favourite slide film, and the processing turnaround was 4-6 days, which 
was acceptable. When I moved to the Netherlands, that became 2-3 weeks 
and I dropped Kodachrome--that was simply too long to wait. So if it now 
takes 2 weeks even for Switzerland-based customers, it could either be 
that the lab is very busy (good) or that Kodak has reduced capacity at 
the lab because of declining volume (bad).

Nathan

Didier Ludwig wrote:
>>...there are only three K-chrome processing facilities in the world: in 
>>Kansas, Switzerland and Japan...
> 
> 
> Since Kodak Lausanne (Switzerland) is doing the K-14 processing for 
> Europe, Africa and Middle east together, the waiting times for my rolls 
> rised from 2 days up to 2 weeks or even more. I guess I have to see this 
> positively. As long as they have enough to do they will continue to do it.
>  
> Didier (still missing Kodachrome 25)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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