Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/14

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Kodachrome is dead or dying... Really?
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:44:21 -0800

There is rumor as to a son of Kodakchrome, and the mini-labs were designed
to foster continued interest in the K-14 processing by making it simpler and
cheaper.  But it will be very very hard to convince people to switch from
E100S & E100SW when E-6 is so much easier and faster to use with results
that currently make K64 look sick.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brick [mailto:jimbrick@photoaccess.com]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 9:37 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Kodachrome is dead or dying... Really?


At 08:34 AM 12/14/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Baloney!  Use the new E-6 films and you'll understand why kodak went with
>E-6 vs. K-14.  
>(Physics aside!)
>

Hummm... while at Photokina, Kodak announced their "new" Kodachrome
minilabs. Basically computer controlled Kodachrome processors with a much
less toxic process, which does not require a full time resident Kodachrome
super technician/chemist. These have been discussed in the photo journals
for the past couple of years. They are here.

So, if Kodachrome is dying, why is Kodak coming out with a line of "new"
Kodachrome processors?

Could it be that they are also coming out with a "new" line of Kodachrome
film?

Jim