AlanG Posted December 30, 2010 Share #41 Posted December 30, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Alan, perhaps he had a very busy last week. Of course! That explains it. I think there is a story in that guy. Maybe a movie about him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted December 30, 2010 Posted December 30, 2010 Hi AlanG, Take a look here A farewell to Kodachrome. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
stunsworth Posted December 30, 2010 Share #42 Posted December 30, 2010 Of course! That explains it. Well, it did say that development was costing $10 a roll, so perhaps he was waiting to cross the 15,000 roll pricing band. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted December 30, 2010 Share #43 Posted December 30, 2010 I'm trying to understand why the "railroad photographer" waited until he had shot 1580 rolls before having any of them developed. (Perhaps he had sent them in over time and was just now picking them up? Also kind of peculiar.) And it makes me wonder how many rolls they were prepared to process these past few weeks. Dwaynes should have been on a 24/7 operation this week. They should have been prepared for thousands upon thousands of rolls to be coming through. However. So many people left it to the last minute to send their rolls through. Why someone decides it's a great idea to send in 1,580 rolls all at once is completely beyond me - that's just stupid - and many other people could have used up all their film months ago if they'd chosen to do so. But, so many people want to say "I had my Kodachrome processed in the last ever week". Seems pretty daft to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejd Posted December 30, 2010 Share #44 Posted December 30, 2010 I finished off my last few rolls in October, and sent them in for processing. After years and years of the boxes of slides coming back reliably, with never one lost, the last roll seems to have got lost in the post! The staff in Kodak's Lausanne office record having mailed it back to me, but it has not arrived at this end. There's a small chance it might show up one day. But what an irony. And actually I was quite interested in seeing how these pics turned out. The staff in the Kodak office in Lausanne have been unfailingly helpful, btw. There have been one or two glitches with the Royal Mail in the last year. Kodak/dwayne's have been turning the film around pretty quickly, especially given the circuitous route from London to Kansas and back via Switzerland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted December 30, 2010 Share #45 Posted December 30, 2010 Well, it did say that development was costing $10 a roll, so perhaps he was waiting to cross the 15,000 roll pricing band. So do you think you can get 10% off on orders over $15,000? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twittle Posted December 31, 2010 Share #46 Posted December 31, 2010 So do you think you can get 10% off on orders over $15,000? Surely no longer... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
etp095 Posted January 3, 2011 Share #47 Posted January 3, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) I finished off my last few rolls in October, and sent them in for processing. After years and years of the boxes of slides coming back reliably, with never one lost, the last roll seems to have got lost in the post! The staff in Kodak's Lausanne office record having mailed it back to me, but it has not arrived at this end. There's a small chance it might show up one day. But what an irony. And actually I was quite interested in seeing how these pics turned out. The staff in the Kodak office in Lausanne have been unfailingly helpful, btw. There have been one or two glitches with the Royal Mail in the last year. Kodak/dwayne's have been turning the film around pretty quickly, especially given the circuitous route from London to Kansas and back via Switzerland. so did your missing slides show up yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBA Posted January 5, 2011 Share #48 Posted January 5, 2011 Sent in my last 18 rolls on Dec. 21st and according to tracking they arrived on the morning of the 30th. Looking forward to seeing those final shots once Dwayne's finishes processing their huge backlog. Meanwhile, I've been busy sorting through and post-processing the scans from the previous batch of 34 rolls. Certainly no regrets about not shooting enough Kodachrome. My girlfriend was quite relieved to learn there are other people more fanatical about it than I am. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
etp095 Posted January 6, 2011 Share #49 Posted January 6, 2011 Just dropped my last 5 rolls of Kodachrome off at WalMart for the Tuesday pick-up. Should just make it in time. Truly the end of an era. John S. i dropped off one roll on monday(27th)for the tuesday pickup too,i just got a call from walmart,the film was returned unprocessed.i hope yours made the cut.this one roll wasn't important,just shot off random shots.the important rolls i shot on christmas were shipped next day on monday the 27th. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Blaster Posted January 7, 2011 Share #50 Posted January 7, 2011 i dropped off one roll on monday(27th)for the tuesday pickup too,i just got a call from walmart,the film was returned unprocessed.i hope yours made the cut.this one roll wasn't important,just shot off random shots.the important rolls i shot on christmas were shipped next day on monday the 27th. Sad to say that I think I am in the same boat. I thought it was direct delivery to Dwayne's but it turns out it goes to a dist. center in Minnesota first (at least from here in Des Moines) and then to Dwayne's. I had Christmas slides plus some others I was really looking forward to. If I had known I would have overnighted it to Dwayne's. John S. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joop van Heijgen Posted January 7, 2011 Share #51 Posted January 7, 2011 The 'last' roll of Kodachrome in a Leicaflex SL with the Summicron R 2,0/50 seated | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianspector Posted January 13, 2011 Share #52 Posted January 13, 2011 Somehow I missed the fact that Dwayne's deadline was a month later than Kodak's in Switzerland. I have just received all my exposed Kodachrome back that I have been shooting in my MP. I would have sent it to Dwayne's had I realized. And I thought I was playing safe by sending it at the beginning of December. There were some important images from a healthcare project in South Africa from the autumn as well. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted January 13, 2011 Share #53 Posted January 13, 2011 Kodak's deadline was earlier because it had to be at Dwayne's by the last week in December. The deadline was set by Dwayne's, not Kodak. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianspector Posted January 13, 2011 Share #54 Posted January 13, 2011 Kodak's deadline was earlier because it had to be at Dwayne's by the last week in December. The deadline was set by Dwayne's, not Kodak. That is just doubly ironic as Dwayne's have extended the deadline and are still processing Kodachrome this week. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted January 13, 2011 Share #55 Posted January 13, 2011 Have they actually extended the deadline for receipt of film, or just allowing themselves more time to do the processing? It doesn't say anything about an extension on their website - quite the opposite, in fact. http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianspector Posted January 13, 2011 Share #56 Posted January 13, 2011 I think that you are right. I just wish that Kodak had not sat on my film for a month before sending it back. I now have no options. Of course, I could have read the process by date on each packet... Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBA Posted January 13, 2011 Share #57 Posted January 13, 2011 Dwayne's did not extend the deadline. They are dealing with such a massive backlog that they're still working on processing film they received days before the deadline. According to tracking, my last 18 rolls were delivered the morning of December 30th. I don't really expect to see them before the end of the month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
etp095 Posted January 19, 2011 Share #58 Posted January 19, 2011 According to another member,dwayne's processed the last roll of Kodachrome film on tuesday the 18th @1:36 pm.I'm glad to have shot some Kodachrome over the past 2 years. r.i.p. Kodachrome Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth3kpl Posted January 20, 2011 Share #59 Posted January 20, 2011 A saviour? Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted January 20, 2011 Share #60 Posted January 20, 2011 Don't hold your breath on that one. I hope he didn't pay anything for that lab... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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