P3D Re: digest 2675- Kodalux Mounting

["James R. Motley" <jmotley3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On  Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:17:09 -0500 (CDT)
 Mark Josephson <icebox@xxxxxxx>  wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Ivester, Paul wrote:
> 
> > on the film cassette.  I have previously only had my "Do not
> > mount" request ignored on full frame transparencies and on Realist
> > format (which were returned in stereo mounts, and still needed to
> > remounted for reasons of accuracy).
> >
> 
> What an (unhappy) coincidence to see this story in P3D the same day that
> I get back my first roll with disregarded instructions. I arrived back
> from out of town today to find an envelope from Kodalux.  It had been so
> long (a month) since I had sent the roll off that I had forgotten about
> it.  The good people at Kodalux did not bother to read the "do not cut do
> not mount" message on the outside of the envelope I sent them, and mounted
> the roll (in realist  mounts, at least). This is the first time this has
> happened to me in the 50+ rolls I've sent to Kodalux, and I AM LIVID!!!!
> 
> Unfortunately, I now have first hand experience with Kodalux mounting, and
> the service I got leans heavily toward the horror stories that get posted
> every time Kodak bashing is the in thing on the list.  Let me start a new
> round.
> 

When I see postings of horror stories of mismounting by "Kodalux",
"Qualex", 
or whatever name is used for "Kodak bashing", my first question is
"Which 
one of the Kodak Labs is being discussed".  I know that some photo
stores 
and other drop-off locations do not know which Kodak lab is used for
their 
Kodak processing.  

Since the Kodak Dallas Lab sent their stereo mounting equipment to their 
New Jersey location, I have sort of lost track of whether the NJ
location 
is now stereo mounting and,if so, what results have been encountered.

While I have my slide film developed locally and I mount my own slides,
we have some members of our OhiO Stereo Photographic Society who look 
to us to recommend a place where they can get slides mounted.  While I 
don't want to recommend any place where it is almost certain that there 
are going to be mucho problems, I also don't want to tell them to stop 
taking stereo photos because all they will have is much grief in getting 
the film developed and mounted.

I am very interested in both good and bad results, but the info has no 
value unless the Lab involved is known.

Thanks for any info that can help our OSPS members enjoy Stereo.

Best Regards.......Jim Motley


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