Kodakrome selling cheap

[Robert_Lai]

I bought armfuls of Kodachrome 64 when the local Target store was selling them at $1.20 for a roll of 24 exp. This was about a year ago. At that time, I posted a question why, and the response was that "it just happens". I'm still waiting for it to happen again, so I can clean out the store!<p>For my locale, if I send film away for processing, it takes me 5-7 days to get it back, whether it is E6 or K-14, so that makes no difference to me.<p>The wonderful thing about Kodachrome is the beautiful way it handles skin tones. I used to buy Astia for portraits, but Kodachrome 64 will do very nicely, thank you. The new Astia is far less grainy, but what's so bad about some fine grain? I actually like that effect. If we have a new baby next year, I'm going to photograph the little one on K64 or B&W. I want to be able to see my slides in 60 years, like Skully's grandfather's shots of Japan.

[fuck]

Scott:

 

You don't know what you are talking about.

[mike_buckles]

Charles, thanks for your help. Skully, that Japan slide is hauntingly beautiful...was that a 35mm slide, or 120 or 620 film? I have 35mm Kodachrome slides I took of my daughter 12 years ago, they still look great, and will continue to look great...I'm photographing my kids and other family members every chance I get with Kodachrome, so I can preserve a bit of my own history for them...incidently, my super 8 films I shot in Kodachrome as a kid in the 70's still look like they were made yesterday! Especially after I clean them, when projected, it's almost like you're there! I had one roll of super 8 that I believe was Fuji, that has faded, and the images look bad...not sure what type of fuji it was, just super 8.

[fuck]

Mike,

 

You should see the print. It's from a 35mm slide. Jimbo had a Canon SII rangefinder that he bought over there. Mom gave me the camera for Christmas a few years ago.

[riley_kinney1]

A&I will discontinue K-14 processing effective 3-1-04.

[dagata]

I just spent $9 a roll on it in DC and I wish I'd have gotten this deal.

Kodachrome has some qualities you just can't get with Velvia or Provia. Look

at this month's National Geographic: the whole Tango piece was shot with it

and it's fantastic. Look at Constantine Manos's work for Magnum; all of his

color stuff is shot with it. It's a great documentary film that doesn't overdo color

and looks terrific indoors in available light. LIke any film, it's up to your own

style and taste, but there are definite reasons why some like it.

[scott smitherman]

Okay, which dollar store chain and where are you located? I love Kodachrome and would love to pick some n the cheap!

[mike_buckles]

Me too, the only one around my area (Omaha NE) is a local camera store that charges 10 bucks a roll for K200...what chain is dumping it??

[James G. Dainis]

<P>"<I>we have pallets of that stuff in the back</I>"

<P> I can understand why a Dollar store would not sell much (if any) K200 in a small town where most people just pick up film at the supermarket or drug store. And most, if not all, of that would be negative film. What I can't understand is a manager who ordered it in the first place. He must have gotten a very good deal on it somewhere, too good to pass up, or else all the excess inventory from all the Dollar stores was collected and sent to him to dump.

[larrydressler]

It was Family Dollar in Clarksville Tennessee on Madison street. and They still have more. I got about 20 rolls and I will use it to death then who knows I may save a roll to pass on to my daughter to put on display next to the Kodak Pony she keeps on the shelf in her room.

[robert_johnson15]

I hate to dash your cheap Kodachrome 200 dreams, but I called that store in question, Family Dollar, 1485 Madison St., Clarksville, TN - 1-931-552-8322 and the previous information just isn't true! The manager told me they don't carry that film (Kodachrome 200) nor any slide film for that matter. They don't have close outs of that kind. They don't have pallet loads in the storage area or anywhere else for that matter. She wanted to know where I heard that story. I read her the previous posts and I can still hear her laughing! I seriously doubt any of this info from the poster is true because he can't even spell Kodachrome correctly! I wish it were as I only live 50 miles from that store. On a hunch, I went by the closest Family Dollar (and the Dollar General almost next door) store in Nashville. They thought that was also a little far fetched. As my wife would say "liar, liar, pants on fire!"