P3D Re: Grrrrrr....Kodalux!

[roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John W Roberts)]

>Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:20:45 -0600
>From: Mark Josephson <icebox@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: P3D Grrrrrr....Kodalux!

>What an (unhappy) coincidence to see this story in P3D the same day that
>I get back my first roll with disregarded instructions. [Further description
>of problems with Kodalux.]

>No way that
>I would ever recommend this service to anyone.  Creased film?  1 damaged
>slide is 1 too many, and had an irreplacable shot turned out that way, I'd
>go postal.  Not recommend?  Actually, I recommend that people actively
>avoid Kodalux's mounting, so that they drop the service and this never
>happens again.  

And I had some slide film one time that turned out to be defective, so we'd
better petition to shut down the slide film industry to keep that from ever
happening again. :-)

I think it's nice that some people are willing to mount their own slides,
but I think it's selfish when they actively seek to kill off commercial
mounting services. I'd like to think that 3D photography could be something
that millions of people could enjoy, and forcing people to mount their
own photos pretty much guarantees that there will never be more than a
few thousand active participants.

If you consider that currently something like 1/1000000 of the world's
population is actively involved in 3D photography, I think there's
considerable room for improvement in that ratio!

John R


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