Kodachrome: Cheaper PK-36 Mailers

[rick_hensil]

Not sure if these guys are legit but I saw this ad for PK-36 mailers

for a lot less than B+H sells them for:

 

http://www.diamondcamera.com/products/processing-mailers_kodak-processing_processing-mailers-for-slides.asp

[walter_degroot]

don't think dwayne's accepts kodak mailers

good chance of getting the film lost if it goes thru a 3rd party.

You can use them for ektachome, tho.

I read here that walmart will send kodachrome to dwaynes .

mark it clearly, it will cost less.

[User_502260]

There are plenty of PK-36 mailers still floating around. The older ones did not have any expiration dates on them. A few months ago I called the Kodak number with a question about whether "expired" mailers were still good. I was told they were. By the time Kodak started to put expiration dates on mailers, the idea that there might not be a Kodak in the future was no longer so far fetched.

[Robert_Lai]

Rick,<p>If you live in the USA, you're better off dropping your Kodachrome through Wal-mart. The cost is $4.88 for 36 exposures. You get them back within a week, although "officially" they are supposed to come back in 14 days. It's still Dwayne's that does the actual processing and mounting.

[TomHildreth]

Note that the top mailer is a PK-20. I don't think these have been available for over 10 years, and no they were not for use with 24-exposure film, that was the PK-24. Looks risky to me.

[terence_spross1]

I started a new post about Kodachrome processing at Sams Club - if anyone cares to comment in that post about quality of their service. I didn't notice it was being metioned in this thread - I try to avoid any mailers due to real problems with the post office for me where I live.