FYI: B&H has Kodachrome back in stock.

[PhotoJim]

It seems that by announcing its end, Kodak has increased sales of Kodacrome enormously. In my opinion it would be a good idea for them to discontinue all of their film products every few months.

I think that the phrase "crying wolf" might apply to that strategy.

 

[Neanderman]

Too bad it's not enough of an incentive for them to make just one last batch...

Ed

 

[2F/2F]

I just checked how much the local camera shop, Henry's in Waterloo Ontario, would charge to develop that film. $50 CDN a ROLL!!!!!

Their explanation of the cost is because it now has to go to Kansas for processing. Guess I will never get the one and only roll of Kodachrome I ever shot processed now.

That just sucks.

But, great to hear that someone has it in stock.

Woo hoo.

You are near the border. Make a day trip out of it. Go toward Buffalo or Windsor/Detroit and take it to the first Wal-Mart you come across...or just mail it to Dwayne's...or send it to an APUGer in the Detroit area who will be sending a big batch to Dwayne's. There are numerous options.

 

[MattKing]

You are near the border. Make a day trip out of it. Go toward Buffalo or Windsor/Detroit and take it to the first Wal-Mart you come across...or just mail it to Dwayne's...or send it to an APUGer in the Detroit area who will be sending a big batch to Dwayne's. There are numerous options.

The Wal-Marts I have visited in Washington State have told me in no uncertain terms that they used to be able to forward Kodachrome to Dwaynes, but they no longer are able to do so.

Matt

 

[2F/2F]

The Wal-Marts I have visited in Washington State have told me in no uncertain terms that they used to be able to forward Kodachrome to Dwaynes, but they no longer are able to do so.

Matt

I guess they finally got hip to the loophole in their processing policy...

 

[james23p]

Funny Walmart's drop off is a service of Fuji Film and I called fuji just friday and they told me they will continue to foward Kodachrome since they also send their E-6 film to Dwayne's. All you have to do is write K-14 Kodachrome in the special instructions and bingo(I write it in several places). I have a friend in Seattle who send 10 rolls or so a month this way and he just dropped some off yesterday and picked up his usual. I can find out what Walmart he uses.

You can call Fuji Color Process at 1-800-937-4686 they told me never to listen to Walmart staff as they really have nothing to do with their send off except to put the envelopes in the bin under your last intial.

Jim

 

[tjaded]

JustFilmSF.com would be a great site if they carried anything, unfortunately, they don't seem to at the moment.

His site was acting goofy...should work fine now. 29 rolls in stock.

Dead Link Removed

 

[wogster]

That's silliness, Colin. When Qualex existed, it wasn't "lazy" to take one's Kodachrome to a lab that contracted out special processing via Qualex (or Qualex via Fuji). I was bringing Kodachrome to my Shoppers around the corner, and I patiently waited 4 weeks for the return. I wouldn't call that "lazy", but convenient, which is what Kodachrome needed most and never really got. It meant not worrying about filling out customs forms or getting things lost or delayed by the extra-rapid Canada Post*.

No, that Henry's location was being a pest. Maybe that Waterloo location poo-poohs film and finds it to be disproportionately low revenue, as one I visited in Ottawa did when the guy kept trying to tell me how great a D300 was, despite my insistence that I wanted to buy a couple rolls of Ilford. So annoying. But the one I go to in town here seems to have regard for film and processing services still.



* This comes in noting how it mysteriously takes 52 hours to make it from Queen Street to Bloor Street in Toronto using an Xpresspost mailer for a delivery of official documents — a total of about 7-10 minutes by bicycle — when one could crawl that distance in probably a twelfth the time.

I don't think Henry's really is interested in film photography in general.

Xpresspost like any courier uses a volume process, trucks pick up items, everything goes back to a central location, then it gets sorted then loaded onto trucks for delivery, the next business day, which could very well be the same truck.

Monday through Thursday, it shouldn't take more then 24 hours, as many trucks do deliveries in the early part of the day, and pickups later in the day, an item picked up ~5PM could be delivered as early as ~9AM, roughly 16 hours later. Fridays are the odd day, most items picked up will be delivered Monday, so yeah, 52 hours wouldn't be unreasonable for a Friday pickup. There are direct carriers that will pickup an item, drive it straight there and then deliver it, tends to be more expensive though.

 

[accozzaglia]

I don't think Henry's really is interested in film photography in general.

Xpresspost like any courier uses a volume process, trucks pick up items, everything goes back to a central location, then it gets sorted then loaded onto trucks for delivery, the next business day, which could very well be the same truck.

Monday through Thursday, it shouldn't take more then 24 hours, as many trucks do deliveries in the early part of the day, and pickups later in the day, an item picked up ~5PM could be delivered as early as ~9AM, roughly 16 hours later. Fridays are the odd day, most items picked up will be delivered Monday, so yeah, 52 hours wouldn't be unreasonable for a Friday pickup. There are direct carriers that will pickup an item, drive it straight there and then deliver it, tends to be more expensive though.

It was sent out on a Wednesday early morning. It arrived on a Friday around noon.

Per one of the lens sales guys at Henry's, "Digital cameras are nothing more than business machines with lenses stuck on them." Knowing fully well that his location sells *ucktrucks of digital products, it was clearly a jab at the state of things now. He is, incidentally, a dedicated film user.

 

[flatulent1]

It's baaaack

B&H seems to have it in stock again...

 

[Sirius Glass]

I am happy to see that the Kodachrome lovers will be able to obtain and use the film for the next 18 months. The disapparence of HIE was so fast that when I bought two rolls of HIE, the sales person said that this was the last complete case of HIE and asked me it I wanted to buy it all. I did not realize, at the time, what that meant. I wish I had, would have bought all the stock. The rest of that stock sold out in less than twenty minutes!

Steve

 

[Colin Corneau]

To clarify: my comments were merely that a ridiculous price like $50 is what happens when you let a middleman get involved.

Seems to me Dwayne's price is the lowest you're going to find, since they're the only one left on the planet who'll do this work for us...anything else, you're just paying extra money for someone else's trouble...no personal slight intended.

 

[E76]

Does anyone know the status of Kodachrome at Freestyle? If you do, PM me. I was planning on calling them today to check but forgot.

 

[nickrapak]

Does anyone know the status of Kodachrome at Freestyle? If you do, PM me. I was planning on calling them today to check but forgot.

Freestyle got screwed by Kodak and didn't get a shipment. They are still planning to get a final shipment sometime in August.

 

[B&Wpositive]

You can call Fuji Color Process at 1-800-937-4686 they told me never to listen to Walmart staff as they really have nothing to do with their send off except to put the envelopes in the bin under your last intial.

Where does this 800 phone number ring to?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Where does this 800 phone number ring to?

Who cares, it is a free call.

Steve

 

[Venchka]

I guess they finally got hip to the loophole in their processing policy...

Walmart still sends Kodachrome to Dwayne's. Or they did in Jube & I have 2 more rolls due back next week. Walmart also handles 35mm & MF C-41 and E-6. For the record, all film in Walmart send out envelopes (all film now that the film machines are gone) go to the nearest Fuji lab. Fuji handles 35mm C-41. Everything else goes to Dwayne's. B&W also. $0.88/roll of 220 C-41 develop and sleeve. 6x7 even. Pretty slick.

 

[Venchka]

Where does this 800 phone number ring to?

Maybe Terrell, Texas.

Kodachrome processing via Walmart & Fuji is less than $7.00/36 exp. roll plus local sales tax. That's cheaper than the postage going directly to Dwayne's.

 

[E76]

Where does this 800 phone number ring to?

Palm Springs, CA

 

[accozzaglia]

Maybe Terrell, Texas.

/me snickers

 

[Venchka]

There is a Fuji lab in Terrell.

 

[accozzaglia]

There is a Fuji lab in Terrell.

Oh, I thought it was mild sarcasm. I read that one very wrong.

Having visited Terrell one weekend twenty years ago when I was 16, I honestly believed it was 1949 and remember sitting on a porch around a bunch of locals where some pretty nasty talk came from their mouths. It shocked me, and it's how I forever remembered the place: slow, backwards, neo-antebellum (if such a concept could exist). If I went back there now, I'm fairly sure my mere presence would get the town sheriff to tell me to best leave by sundown if I knew what was good for me. Or something like that. -_-

 

[james23p]

Fuji Color Processing Inc, Tullahoma, TN

Where does this 800 phone number ring to?

Fuji Color Processing Inc, 385 W Lincoln St, Tullahoma, TN at least that is how the tech rep answered the phone.

Jim

Sorry for the late reply.

 

[clayne]

The Waterloo Henry's is not great for film, but there is one guy there who still supports it. The rest of the staff are basically not interested in it and don't know much at all about it.
I was in there the other day buying some film and the manager was standing there. I said to him that he should get some of the new Kodak Ektar and he looked at me like I had three heads. His response was "I don't know film at all, maybe someone else here can help you". I told him that I was not asking for some right at the moment, but rather that I would like them to order some for me. He just shrugged his shoulders and turned back to arranging the film in the little case they have for it. What a tool.

What do you guys think is more profitable to a camera shop? Selling 35mm rolls of film or new digital cameras and memory cards every 1-2 years?

 

[accozzaglia]

Without seeing sales margins and sales sheets, wouldn't the consumables make a greater profit as based on proportion of that item's cost going to the dealer? For digital bodies, wouldn't there be a kind of rush to the bottom to compete against competitors whose margins are also very limited given that the manufacturer or distributor probably sells them at similar per unit prices.

What's probably more profitable are the in-house service contracts they sell for these digital devices and profit from used lenses and other used gear.