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RE: [OM] Travel with OM's to El Salvador

Subject: RE: [OM] Travel with OM's to El Salvador
From: "Harridge, Wayne" <Wayne.Harridge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 16:48:12 +0800
Morgan,

> 
> 
> Wayne Harridge wrote:
> 
> > The last Kodachrome  I sent off to Kodak took 3.5 weeks to 
> be returned 
> 
> Kodachrome is a great film for travel.  Great film, period.  If you
> submit your film to Kodak in the eastern U.S., it will likely 
> go to the
> Fair Lawn, N.J. facility, which I think is the largest K-14 lab in the
> world.  The turnaround time is pretty good, about 4 to 7 days.  If you
> use mailers within the U.S., you might want to send your film there
> instead of a closer "lab" listed on the mailer.  From my 
> folks' house in
> Albuquerque NM, I got my slides back alot faster from NJ than from
> Dallas, based on a one-time test.
> 
> It's possible your Kodachrome gets dunked in N.J. even if you send it
> elsewhere, but I think Kodak has other K-14 labs in Dallas and
> California.  I've yet to see the the so-called K-14 "minilab" 
> that Kodak
> touted a few years ago.

Kodachrome was processed in Melbourne, Australia in the past, but I wouldn't
be surprised if it was sent to NJ in this instance.  Once I have used my
last few cassettes I'll be using E-6 exclusively, they will turn that round
mounted in 4 hours at a local lab 6 days a week (pity about Sundays).

Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Louvre/6152/ 

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