Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/23

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Subject: [Leica] WAS: RIP Kodachrome NOW: Contest
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:03:04 -0400
 
It might look good next to some classic packets of retro Jello.

I was crestfallen they never came out with K25 in 120.
That in a good Rolleiflex or Hasselblad on a tripod you could get the split
ends of the nose hairs on the nose of a fly.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Jim Shulman <jshul at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:34:23 -0400
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] WAS: RIP Kodachrome NOW: Contest
> 
> There's only one slight problem:
> The last processing facility that would run 120 Kodachrome was in
> Switzerland, and that facility stopped processing the film several years
> ago.  Dwayne's will not process 120 Kodachrome, just 35mm film and movie
> film.
> 
> So, at best the ten rolls are good for shelf display.
> 
> Jim Shulman
> Wynnewood, PA
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