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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
(Post 19743722)
Let me know when Kodachrome becomes available as well as anyone who can process it; or maybe even when Kodak returns. All color pictures of my kids were shot on Kodachrome as well as 10 years of travel in Europe. Those pictures as well all the B&W pictures of my kids shot on 35mm and 120 are just so much better than the pictures of my grandchildren taken with Smartphones by their parents. It seems to me a single crated picture is worth a hundred or even a thousand snapped away machine gun style on free electrons for viewing on the Internet or on a smartphone screen.
because chemicals with silver compounds have to be disposed of a certain way, and the machines used to process a roll eventually do wear out. Parts to fix those machines are also expensive, if they are even available. The specialty camera business is also suffering due to online sales from places like B&H Photo, Best Buy and Amazon. This, in turn, causes small specialty businesses like the one I worked for to cut costs where they can. Film sales, and film processing are usually one of the first things to go. Between the six stores that the company owned when I worked for them, there were only two locations that could process B&W film. I believe it went down to one before I found another job. So on top of the cost processing, the stores also had to ship containers of exposed film between stores just to have them processed and printed. I have a close friend who has started to process his own 35mm film at home. It's a labor intensive, slow process though. He has to do it in one of their guest bathrooms that has no windows, using a red light headlamp. That and he can't really justify the cost to do it that often, chemicals are still expensive. He and his wife also run a wedding/newborn photography business, for which they use their Canon full frame gear and lenses. |
Originally Posted by ShadowKhaN
(Post 19741958)
Yea I do get it, but still find myself thinking the same nonsense. Wonder if i can fully get rid of the nonsensical grass is greener mentality.
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Originally Posted by theHomelessJedi
(Post 19748724)
Some photo specialty shops with full photo labs can still process them, but it's expensive and somewhat messy...
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I kinda have this mentality, but its more like 'I need the right bike for every type of riding I do'. Instead of owning one do-it-all bike, like a cyclocross bike, to use for all of my biking venues, I have a base aluminum road bike I use 'for training in winter', an equally spec'ed carbon road bike 'for training in summer', a hardtail 29+ bike for 'extended gravel/offroad touring', a 700c gravel bike 'for gravel/offroad training', an 80s steel race bike for 'practicing with downtube shifters', etc. You get the idea. But, from time to time I get bored with a particular piece of equipment and away it goes. I just sold an expensive kayak because it hasn't been used in two years and a long tail cargo bike because its been used only once in two years.
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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
(Post 19749023)
Kodachrome film processing? Maybe the same place where Kodachrome is still being sold? Where?
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Originally Posted by theHomelessJedi
(Post 19751589)
It has to be processed as black and white pretty much. Not the same as Kodachrome, I should've specified. My bad. The last place to do the actual Kodachrome processing was Rocky Mountain Film Lab, which closed its doors without even letting customers know. Lots of orders are probably still sitting someone because they didn't announce they were closing.
https://petapixel.com/2013/01/13/the...dachrome-film/ More on the last processor. https://petapixel.com/2010/07/15/pho...of-kodachrome/ "Dwayne’s Photo Service in Parsons, Kansas, which is the last labs to process the film type. The final images were shot in New York City, but the last three frames were taken in Parsons. If you’ve got undeveloped canisters of Kodachrome of your own, Dwayne’s will develop them only through December of this year (2010). |
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