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<p>Mr. Henry Posner, a senior manager at B&H, has always been reasonable and informative to me. He has also been of service to several other Photonet members over the past years. As a courtesy to him, so he would know what his customers are thinking and saying (yes, I believe he genuinely cares about that kind of stuff) I have cut and pasted a portion of the Kodachrome/B&H thread in an e-mail to him. He may well know or even control the answer as to whether B&H will stock Kodachrome and after e-mailing to him, it occurred to me that he might post us a response to boot. </p>
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<p>Interesting: recently I discover a Kodachrome 35mm slide of myself, AKA as a baby ... had it scanned, and am fasinated by it's color and been thinking of trying some... so I called B&H and told them I hope they continue carring it and to count me in as a new Kodachrome customer when they get it back it. I'll be watching and waiting.</p>
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<p>I confess I have not read every post in this thread, but neither Kodak nor B&H has, to my knowledge, discontinued Kodachrome. There are two reasons Kodachrome was briefly listed as DISC on our site. One is a couple of new product "tags," one of which shows an item backordered with no expected delivery date in our sales database but DISC on the web. That's being addressed internally.</p>

<p>The second had to do with the availability of developing for Kodachrome. As you no doubt know this is not an E6 film and processing has become more and more rare recently. We did consider the possibility we'd stop selling it if no one could get it developed.<br /> In fact our buyer tells me we expect delivery of a shipment of PKR today.</p>

<p>Henry Posner<br /> <strong>B&H Photo-Video</strong></p>

Henry Posner

B&H Photo-Video

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<p>Thank you very much for posting this answer here, Mr. Posner. </p>

<p>I think our hearts are returning to their normal speeds now. God, we are a fanatical bunch! I don't know our numbers, but we do love our Kodachrome with a passion! </p>

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<p>As of 2009.03.01, B+H lists KR135-36 as out of stock.<br>

PKR, also 135-36 is listed as in stock with this note linked:</p>

<p>"This is not a regular stocked item and cannot be canceled, returned or exchanged."</p>

<p>All of this wording has changed since a few weeks ago. ***Sigh. <br>

While we have returned to an age of transparency, it will take time for it to reach the, ah, hinterlands.</p>

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<p>I have just purchsed 4 rolls of expired (5/08) of kodachrome, unrefridgerated, and hope to get some good results from it. As for regular slide film I usually cross process it for it's artistic results.</p>
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<p>I will surely be purchasing some more rolls of kodachrome and plan to shoot the rest of my Super 8 stock this summer. I hope Dwayne's won't stop processing it before then.....I really want some kodachrome movies of my kids while they are little. I see some distant dark future when my great grandkids will be glad someone cared to document the family with a lasting medium. All you have to do is hold it up to the light!</p>
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