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- From: wally@boi.hp.com (Wally Overton)
- Subject: Kodalux vs Fuji for E-6 processing
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:06:34 GMT
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- I was very disappointed with the results I got the last time I sent a quantity
- of film to Kodalux (Qualex). They screwed up the sequential numbering on
- several rolls, mis-registered a number of mounts, with no justification (Not
- Nikonos II shots, explanation later), and after one roll reached me, I waited a
- week for the rest. It seemed they held all but one roll, waiting for the
- "missing" roll to show up. In a separate incident, a quick and easy color print
- I sent to Qualex through a local photo shop came back garbaged up three times.
- They claimed that nothing better could be done with the neg. The problem
- appeared to be reflections from their negative carrier. A local lab, finely,
- had no problem.
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- This time I tried a different approach for a large bunch of slides. I
- purchased Fuji E-6 mailers from Adorama for, I believe, $3.19. As I had 29
- rolls to send in, I didn't want to spend $16.82 on stamps. (With Kodalux I
- could drop them in a photo store pouch.) After putting the rolls in the
- mailers, I put them in a box, and mailed it first class, to Fuji in Phoenix for
- about $5. The finished slides returned exactly one week later, in a priority
- mail, second day box. The quality is excellent, and as over half the film is
- Velvia, those slides are mounted in special "Velvia" mounts. A nice touch.
- They also had no trouble with a couple of rolls with uneven spacing, taken with
- a Nikonos II. (This happens because the Nikonos II lacks a sprocket wheel and
- just takes up the film on a drum.) This has been a problem with some labs,
- though this was not the excuse for Qualex.
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