"Jean-David Beyer" <jeandavid8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Richard Knoppow wrote:
>> "Nicholas O. Lindan" <see@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> <ellis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>
>>>> Just picked up some film from the lab yesterday. I was
>>>> a
>>>> bit surprised to find them now charging $3.95 a sheet
>>>> for 4x5 E6. Sigh.
>>> There goes the idea of taking a cross-country trip with
>>> a
>>> Speed Graphic for a snapshot camera. Figure I normally
>>> use up 6 rolls of Kodachrome - that translates into
>>>
>>> 200 x $3.95 = $790 ...
>>>
>>> What are they processing E6 in nowdays, gasoline?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
>>> Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters
>>> http://www.darkroomautomation.com/index.htm
>>> n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com
>>
>>
>> Did you really mean Kodachrome? Kodachrome is not
>> E-6.
>
> I doubt it. They have not make Kodachrome in 4"x5" size in
> a long time. I
> have never seen it, though I have seen reproductions of
> some 8"x10"
> Kodachromes shot by Edward Weston.
>
AFAIK Kodak discontinued Kodachrome in sheet film sizes
when Ektachrome was introduced about 1948. Before that
Kodachrome was available in sheets up to 11x14! These are
still listed in the 1947 edition of the color film booklet
included in the _Kodak Reference Handbook_.
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Richard Knoppow
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