Re: Cost of color prints & film? Greg ( digest 1574)

[P3D Bob Howard <bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE: Gred want to know cost comparison of Kodacolor vs KOdachrome.

Well, the cost of Kodachrome was $2.50 for roll of 36exp and $2.50 for
processing and mounting after the court decreee that separated it out so
processing could not be incorporated in the film price. Prewar I think
it was about $2.50 including developing and processing. I think the
first Kodacolor prints were quite expensive maybe 70 cents but that came
down as volume increased. Color of course is cheaper than black and
white now even if you just buy a package of 8x10 paper at a camera store
for your own darkroom, due to volume. Projection was the way to view
slides and you got a projected when you got slide film. Table and hand
viewers came later. I never could learn to enjoy sticking slides in
plastic pages or not projecting them to glorious big images. The pages
and light table are a product of the pros having to scan and discard
lots of shooting and sent off transparencies for sale. When using a
projector you kept them in slide carriers that fit the projector. I
never like the big Carasol Kodak type but have small European ones that
fit the Eollei "lunchbox" projector that does continous projection as it
reload the same cartridge it is extracting from. It is autofocus too.
BobH (I remember the cost of Kodachrome because when I quit smoking
cigarettes I equated a carton of cigarette to a roll of film #2.50! e.g.
every carton I didn't buy would buy me a treasure roll of stereos.)


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