[PRCo] Re: Film Discontinuance

[Fred Schneider]

And the only user of Kodachrome 25 in Lancaster just before it was discontinued
was Lancaster General Hospital ... nothing did a better job of differentiating
between skin tones, growths, etc.

I hope, Bob, that you are right because I'm still using 50 to 100 rolls of
Kodachrome every year.  But I'm not counting on it.  I've watched how many films
Kodak has dropped in the last two years.  Let's start with K-25.  And then
Professional Copy Film ... Ed and I found out after stocks were gone in the U.
S. but a friend of mine found 1,000 sheets of 4x5 Pro-Copy and shipped it in
from England (at three times the cost we would have paid a year before ... he
wasn't the profiteer ... we needed boat shipment at $200 to prevent x-raying the
cargo .... we needed a customs broker even though it is clearly marked Made in
U. S. A.  ... we had to accept 25 sheet instead of 100 sheet boxes.  But we have
a lifetime supply in our freezers.  Kodak also dropped Super XX in sheets.  No
kidding, guys, it was still made in sheets.  Best black and white emulsion made
for making internegatives from color slides.  And that is only a sample of what
Kodak dropped.

More difficult to find at consumer photo stores?  You're right.  Even the
wholesale house in Lancaster doesn't stock Kodachrome.  Only one dealer in the
county does and that is because an old fogey named Fred Schneider buys at least
half of what he stocks.  Need I also add that the county is home to almost a
half million people?

Bob Rathke wrote:

> Last month I bought a spare lamp for my Carousel projector - cost was $9.99.
>
> The professional photographers I commission for company projects are heavily
> into digital equipment, but they all take 35mm slides and 2-1/4"
> transparencies as backup unless we order otherwise.  I've talked to them
> about the impending disappearance of transparency film, but they believe it
> will be around for a while, but more difficult to find at consumer photo
> stores.
>
> By the way, the largest users of slide projectors today are in the medical
> profession.  Doctors still bring trays of slides to show at medical
> conferences.
>
> Bob 12/5/03
>
> --------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Holland" <PghPCC at pacbell.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:57 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Subject: Film Discontinuance
>
> > Good Morning!
> >
> >
> > > "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, we will have to buy the digital projectors,
> > > but I've asked Santa for a new Kodak this holiday
> > > season so I'll have a fresh one in stock.  I've
> > > acquired three older ones.......
> >
> >
> > Assume you mean the standard Kodak slide projector.    Big
> > problem here is replacing the bulb  --  ca-$50.00 when I did so
> > about a dozen years ago!    Mighty Expensive.
> >
> > You can scan all your slides into the computer, Ed, and won't
> > need a standby projector!
> >
> >
> >
> > >> John F Bromley wrote:
> >
> > >> ....... Our current Nikon 5400 digital .......[is]
> > >> Margaret's camera and the male of the species has
> > >> to have a bigger (and better) one -
> > >> it says so in the manual.
> RR