Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/21

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Subject: Re: Basement Kodachrome... or Film Forever!
From: Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@a1.nl>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:53:07 +0000

On 20 Jun 97 at 23:19, Charles E. Albertson wrote:

> At 10:41 PM 6/20/97 -0300, you wrote:
> >Hey Guys, 
> >
> >Before you go off the deep end and start outrageous rumors about
> >Kodachrome, why don't you just look on the back of a Kodachrome mailer
> >and note the addresses of some of the places that process Kodachrome.
> >
> >Fred Ward
> >
> >
> 	Concur. Not to mention A&I in Hollywood and BWC in Miami, both of which
> run excellent K-14 lines. And I don't think Kodak would have developed and
> marketed a mini-lab K-14 processor if they were planning to discontinue
> Kodachrome.

The story I heard is that the K14 process has been developed by an 
individual (I believe a Kodachrome-nut in Switserland?), and he 
had to push it for years before they would listen to him.

(CC'ed to Kodachrome list) 


- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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