[Leica] Alas, kodachrome

[Nick Hunter <nhunter1@mindspring.com>]

From Charlie's post:

>Any photo
>shop that does not carry at least Kodachrom 25 and 64 should go out of
>business, at least in my opinion.

Charlie:
I do the film ordering for a small independent camera shop in South
Florida. We have a fair sized professional market and are a pickup point
for BWC, the only independent kodachrome lab in this part of the
country(they are excellent). If anyone is selling kodachrome, it should be
us.

I recently re-ordered, with some trepidation, PKR (professional kodachrome
64), even though the only regular customer for it has not been coming in
recently. At one time we stocked all kodachrome speeds, pro and amateur,
but I cannot even sell one brick before it goes out of date. We get only a
few rolls a month to process.

Why? well, there are a substantial number of customers who just won't use
anything but Fuji. Because of our 2-day turnaround with a good lab, speed
and bad processing havn't been a major factor; but most people don't think
kodachrome, last revised in the 1980's, is as good as current Ektachromes.
Please understand that I have shot lots of kodachrome and I love it; but we
can't aford to watch it gather dust until it is sold off below cost out of
date. It breaks my heart.

Nick Hunter

P.S. Does anyone know if there is any activity on the kodachrome mailing
list? I  subscribed (I think) but have received nothing since the welcome
message. Maybe another sign of K-14's slow fade to oblivion...