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I agree. I've got one roll of K64 left in the fridge and that's it for me. When you buy the mailer it now takes four weeks to get your chromes back. Sorta miss the good ol' days when it only took two weeks.

 

 

good news! if you send the film directly to Dwayne's (where the mailer eventually goes anyway) the turnaround is usually less than a week.

 

website: A trusted name in photo processing for over 50 years - Dwayne's Photo

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Yep, I mail exposed film on Monday, it returns on Friday or Saturday: Nashville to kansas City and back. Dwaynes will also ship next day for additional fee.

 

I wish more people had continued to buy Kodachrome after it seemed Kodak lost interest in it. Maybe then we wouldn't be discussing this on the forum today :)

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Very sad. I hardly shoot any color film these days, most all of that having been supplanted by digital (and have to say I am deeply loving my new M8). And even before that I had spent better than a decade shooting Fuji Provia almost exclusively. But when I think of all the years before _that_ - heck, it was all Kodachrome. Sure, it's a nostalgia thing. But when I pull out those old boxes of chromes, even with all that's happened in the meanwhile, they don't disappoint. There's something timeless about them.

 

The one thing I kind of regretted was that I didn't own a Leica M back when I was shooting Kodachrome. So ten days ago I bought five rolls of K64 and five rolls of K200. I truly am bought in to digital for color work, so it's not like I expected to turn back time or anything like that. I just figured I'd run a roll through every now and again, when I want a break from my standard Tri-X.

 

Today I ordered 20 more rolls of K64 from B&H. They're already out of K200.

 

You have to figure K64 is on borrowed time, too. It'll be a sad day when it's all gone...

 

KM-25, I'll be looking forward to hearing more about your project.

 

Jeff

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Very sad. I hardly shoot any color film these days, most all of that having been supplanted by digital (and have to say I am deeply loving my new M8). And even before that I had spent better than a decade shooting Fuji Provia almost exclusively. But when I think of all the years before _that_ - heck, it was all Kodachrome. Sure, it's a nostalgia thing. But when I pull out those old boxes of chromes, even with all that's happened in the meanwhile, they don't disappoint. There's something timeless about them.

 

The one thing I kind of regretted was that I didn't own a Leica M back when I was shooting Kodachrome. So ten days ago I bought five rolls of K64 and five rolls of K200. I truly am bought in to digital for color work, so it's not like I expected to turn back time or anything like that. I just figured I'd run a roll through every now and again, when I want a break from my standard Tri-X.

 

Today I ordered 20 more rolls of K64 from B&H. They're already out of K200.

 

You have to figure K64 is on borrowed time, too. It'll be a sad day when it's all gone...

 

KM-25, I'll be looking forward to hearing more about your project.

 

Jeff

 

Leica M and Kodchrome are made for each other. I started using Leica in August just for this project and wow what a difference. Of course the glass is what kicks butt, 50 1.4 Lux asph, 28 Cron asph, woweee!

 

K-64 might stick around until 2010, the 75th anniversary of Kodachrome. It would be a great PR move to celebrate it then...Kodak needs good PR.

 

Shooting Kodachrome is like playing baseball. You are going to swing the bat a lot and miss, but one day, "Crack" it's outta the park and nothing...and I mean nuh-thing can touch it.

 

Digital has nada on Kodachrome.

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Two shots taken with Kodachrome.

 

The first is Kodachrome 200. ( very contrasty)

The second Kodachrome 64. (Superb)

The locomotives in these shots had the regulator wide open, (yes they were thundering)

 

This is one reason why I wont miss K200.

 

But the important thing, is they were shot on a Leica R.

 

Ken.

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