What killed Kodachrome for the pros shooting for publications, other than
the unfortunate color shifts, was the timing. Shoot Kodachrome, send to
Kodak, cross fingers, get results such as they are, in, god forbid,
cardboard mounts (!) in about two weeks with free waterspots, scratches and
little fibres of cardboard free. Shoot E6, take to friendly local pro lab
that runs a good replenisned and monitored line, get stuff back in the same
day in nice clean plastic mounts. And yes, there were people that liked the
unique pallettes of the Fuji films.
From: Wayne Harridge [mailto:wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 2:29 PM
To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
Subject: Re: [OM] Aw, hell, mama, you can have it!
>
> Formerly, there was a great Kodakchrome lab in Melbourne, Australia,
> and
> turnaround was good and payment easy. Quality was tops. That was all
> great.
>
> Next, they killed off the Melbourne lab (and a host of others), and the
> nearest one was in Japan. As far as I know they weren't interested in
> forwarding films to Japan and arranging all that stuff.
>
It wasn't just the Kodachrome lab that was shut down in Melbourne, Kodak had
a large manufacturing plant for film and paper - that whole operation was
shut down in a few stages.
Anyway, I think what killed Kodachrome was the improvement in E-6 films and
the availability of small E-6 machines installed in mini-labs and pro-labs
offering a turn around of less than a day.
...Wayne
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