RE: [Leica] Kodachrome Blues

[chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)]

I doubt if they're shipping it to Europe from Canada. Below is the link to
Kodak's list of labs using the K-Lab processor (an automated Kodachrome
processor they intro-ed a few years ago, and which seems to have supplanted
the traditional K-14 processing line). I send my Kodachrome to either the
Tukwila plant (down by SeaTac airport) for next-day service, or to A&I in
Los Angeles through a local store (3-day turnaround, by FedEx). You can get
mailers for both Kodak's labs and for A&I, which ought to give you better
than 5-week turnaround.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/products/klabs/dealers.shtml

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John
> Collier
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 10:45 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Kodachrome Blues
>
>
> I have been noticing in the last couple of years that the local stores are
> stocking less and less Kodachrome. I, unfortunately, really like the stuff
> and use it as my main film. Processing turn around times went
> from one week
> to two weeks three years or so back but now they have jumped to
> FIVE weeks!
> The store I deal with said the two week time was due to it having
> to be sent
> to the eastern USA. Canada lost both its plants a while ago. Now
> that it is
> five weeks they speculated that it had to go to Europe! Is this the end of
> Kodachrome. Are there no more plants in North America? If you have heard
> anything I would be grateful for news.
>
> John Collier
>