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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
They were the first out with a digital camera. Just never pushed it.
Getting Kodachrome processed in the UK, for what we did, was a nightmare. They had their own rules.  |
Yup, and then they moved the lab to France. Ok, so it was usually overnight as promised, but often it wasn't. Once it was late it was any random number greater than 1 days late. No one ever had a clue in the UK and certainly you couldn't speak to anyone in France, you just had to suck it up and wait.
Kodak lost the plot years ago, I didn't really shoot Kodachrome but did use Ektachrome until Fuji came along with a product that had the same batch code for the first 4 years. Which meant zero colour shift from roll to roll. Which saved me a fortune in film. With Kodak you might have 40 rolls in a fridge and have a job requiring 40 rolls but that didn't mean you could use that film. In reality you had to buy a fresh bunch of 40 all with the same batch code, because no way could you risk mixing batches with Kodak.
I also used to use a Kodak lith film for making photographic prints, which in effect was a cross processing - loads of people did it - and Kodak finally caught on that it was getting used lots but didn't bother to find out by who, so when they "improved" this now popular paper, they broke it because it stopped doing the trick we actually liked it for.