When Kodak launch Ektachrome

[fdonadio]

For a second, I thought that was a Rand McNally Road Atlas!

 

[Theo Sulphate]

...
Martin with Michelin by Andreas

What kind of tablet is that and what illuminates those thin screens?

 

[macfred]

What kind of tablet is that and what illuminates those thin screens?

This is called map - a kind of a navigation system for finding our ways on foreign roads - satellite-unassisted, powered by human vision and illuminated with the day's rays ...

 

[Roger Cole]

if kodak spends millions of dollars to create a new product they want millions of people to use.
they better have an easy way for the 999,970,000 people who don't process their film.
its like making a car to sell to a region without gas stations, or roads ...
it kind of sounds like cadillac trying to sell SUV to the inhabitants of the amazon jungle.

i think you are right, some people will buy the film, and self process or send it to a lab
but a lot of people won't ( or maybe do it once ) because it is inconvenient as hell, and $$$.
we analog users are kind of crazy like that, we love inconvenience, we love chemicals that are toxic
that we might have a hard time getting rid of, and we love expensive...

to be honest, i was thinking of buying a brick of the film, and starting a kickstarter to crowd source
me the $$ to pay a lab to get it processed. or better yet, getting an account at a website called patreon
which is a platform that helps connect working artists or student artists or anyone else who creates
with patrons to fund them ...
so who knows ...
maybe i can find a wealthy benefactor to fund my chrome film fix...

Doing it yourself is inconvenient, even for those of us who routinely do black and white. I find sending it out to be easier than taking it to a lab. The post office is a mile from my house, the lobby is open 24/7, and I can weigh my padded mailer of film, print postage, and ship from the self service kiosk 24/7/365, then it arrives right back at my door. One trip to make, not two, to a place closer than a lab is likely to be. And realistically how many labs would it take before most people weren't closer to a post office?

Hell I sent it out even when I didn't have to. It was just way easier and more convenient.

 

[cmacd123]

I can weigh my padded mailer of film, print postage, and ship from the self service kiosk 24/7/365, then it arrives right back at my door. One trip to make, not two, to a place closer than a lab is likely to be. And realistically how many labs would it take before most people weren't closer to a post office?.

Canada Post has conveniently decided that any envelope that is more than 15mm thick, is a "parcel" with a minimum postage of 10 dollars even in the same city. Makes for Mail in Photo service to be expensive, as the return package is likely to also "qualify" as a parcel.

 

[mshchem]

Canada Post has conveniently decided that any envelope that is more than 15mm thick, is a "parcel" with a minimum postage of 10 dollars even in the same city. Makes for Mail in Photo service to be expensive, as the return package is likely to also "qualify" as a parcel.

Seriously?, 10 CAD to mail anything over 15mm .. I've noticed that even very small items coming here to the US from Canada have very high shipping costs. I thought it was some sort of International rate.
That's crazy I can order a single 7 watt LED light bulb from China, with free shipping for 1.75 USD. The US Postal service delivers it. I'm sure if I tried to mail the same 4x6x1 inch padded envelope across my city it would cost 5 bucks.
In the past I remember my Dad mailing Kodachrome Pre-Paid Processing mailers. It required 2 1st class stamps, back then 8 cents a piece.
Nuts!
Best Regards Mike

 

[Cholentpot]

Canada Post has conveniently decided that any envelope that is more than 15mm thick, is a "parcel" with a minimum postage of 10 dollars even in the same city. Makes for Mail in Photo service to be expensive, as the return package is likely to also "qualify" as a parcel.

Nor rain, snow, shine, or clouds, Canada post may or may not deliver your letter.

 

[MattKing]

The Canada Post mailing rate for Kodachrome mailers was a special negotiated bulk rate that made sense when volumes were very high.
In the Vancouver mail sorting facility they had big bins that were reserved solely for the hundreds and thousands of films destined for the North Vancouver processing lab.
I expect that the other mailers - for Fuji films, for instance - probably got the same rate because the postal system was set up to handle film mailers.

 

[railwayman3]

Canada Post has conveniently decided that any envelope that is more than 15mm thick, is a "parcel" with a minimum postage of 10 dollars even in the same city. Makes for Mail in Photo service to be expensive, as the return package is likely to also "qualify" as a parcel.

Same here in the UK, with the now-privatised Royal Mail. A mailing envelope with one 35mm sent for processing is now called a "small parcel" and costs £2.90 (4.75 Can$). I can remember when the postage on a Kodachrome mailer to Kodak cost a 4.5 old pence stamp (2 new pence = 3.5 Cents).

 

[railwayman3]

Seriously?, 10 CAD to mail anything over 15mm .. I've noticed that even very small items coming here to the US from Canada have very high shipping costs. I thought it was some sort of International rate.
That's crazy I can order a single 7 watt LED light bulb from China, with free shipping for 1.75 USD. The US Postal service delivers it. I'm sure if I tried to mail the same 4x6x1 inch padded envelope across my city it would cost 5 bucks.
In the past I remember my Dad mailing Kodachrome Pre-Paid Processing mailers. It required 2 1st class stamps, back then 8 cents a piece.
Nuts!
Best Regards Mike

I've successfully ordered quite a few items from China to the UK in the last few years, with "free shipping". I'm sure that
China Post must have some special subsidised arrangements, perhaps to encorage business and exports.