A small local (I can walk to it) lab used to do ~$3k a month in E6 for
Johnson Controls. They lost that business a couple years ago and are
thinking of pulling the equipment to make room for other processing
gear. As much as I love slides, I sure don't give 'em enough business
anymore.
The owner (Jack) is a fine photographer who spends a lot of time in
Cuba. He befriended a number of the old shooters there including
Alberto Korda, the fellow who made the iconic shot of Che Guevara. Of
course copyrights were completely violated and the photographers never
received any royalties. Jack sells prints for them and funnels the
money back to the guys who are still alive and their survivors.
ScottGee1
On 1/4/06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I haven't done more than a few rolls of slide film in the last couple of
> years. Processing has so far been covered by some pre-paid mailers I'd
> bought from B&H several years ago. I had one left but decided I'd have
> this New Year's Day roll of Provia processed locally to turn it around
> faster. Since I had no idea what E6 processing was going for these days
> I called my first local processor and nearly fell over when advised that
> the processing price for a 36 exposure roll was USD 19.95. My second
> choice came in at USD 10. Much better but a lot more than the USD 6-7 I
> was expecting. Eeek!
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Wayne Culberson wrote:
> >
> > I dropped off a roll of E100VS for processing today at the only place in our
> > area that does it locally, and was informed they'd not be offering same day
> > service anymore, as they were not getting enough to continue that service.
> > So it looks like the beginning of the fast-approaching end of E6, a sad day
> > for me, though not unexpected.
> > I haven't seen a lot of reason to shoot much print film lately, but I really
> > hate the thought of losing slides.
> > Okay, so now it looks as if I'll be forced to soon choose a DSLR, and decide
> > how much of this film-camera stuff to send to eplay :-(
> > Wayne
>
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