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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 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.
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
JustFilmSF.com would be a great site if they carried anything, unfortunately, they don't seem to at the moment.
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.
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.
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?
I guess they finally got hip to the loophole in their processing policy...
Where does this 800 phone number ring to?
Maybe Terrell, Texas.
There is a Fuji lab in Terrell.
Where does this 800 phone number ring to?
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.
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