[photo-3d] Slide Processing Nightmare

["Oleg Vorobyoff" <olegv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I’m about at the end of my rope and need some help.  I take ordinary full
frame slides.  A good 50% of the stereo pairs I have taken in the last
couple of months have been ruined in processing.  Since I am now using a
twin rig, if either film is bad the stereo pairs will be unusable.  It is
disheartening to think about how many weeks of hard work and how much
expense have come to nothing.

My question is whether there is any way to get reliable Kodachrome
processing.  I do not want to use Kodak processing and hesitate to switch
films for reasons detailed below.  One thing I have yet to try is to mail my
film south to A&I.  Is this worth trying?  I’m not up for much more
disappointment.

So here is my story.  I have been using Kodachrome for thirty years.  There
have been a few bad patches over those years, but nothing like recently.
First there was mismounting and miscutting, mostly salvageable.  Then a job
in June came back all bright green.  Another came back gouged.  At that
point I said good bye to Kodak, despite having having received apologies and
free film and processing.  I loaded up with Fuji Provia F.  Those slides
came back bluish, as if they were shot through an 82C filter.  Even if that
was a one time thing, I did not feel like giving Provia another try because
the film simply did not have the sharpness of Kodachrome 25.  So it was back
to Kodak.  Next job actually came back fine.  But the slides I picked up
yesterday are not usable for stereo.  A defect I first encountered last
January has resurfaced.  Each slide has a tiny pinhole in the middle, barely
noticeable - until viewed in stereo.

I believe the Kodachrome ended up at Kodak’s lab in San Leandro, California.
The Provia went to Fuji.  All were regular full frame format.

I really do not want to give up stereo, but that is looming as the only sane
option.

Oleg Vorobyoff