Exactly! What killed Kodachrome was not digital, E6 had done the job well
before the pros switched to digital.
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On Dec 27, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> 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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