[photo-3d] A&I Slide Processing Excellent

["Oleg Vorobyoff" <olegv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just got back 21 rolls of Kodachrome from A&I, representing two weeks of
photography in the Eastern Sierra.  A&I did very well, photographer less so.

The slides were properly processed, clean and well mounted.   Small
scratches were found on four of the slides.  Considering there were about
800 slides, this is much lower than the frequency of such flaws from Kodak.
In accordance with Murphy's Law, scratches marred two of my best stereo
pairs.  Performing "beyond the call of duty," A&I labeled each box of slides
with the roll number I had on each canister.  This saved me a huge amount of
time mating up the stereo pairs taken with my twin rig.  My only quibble is
that A&I's slide boxes are tapered and the lid has a protruding flange.
This makes them somewhat difficult to stack and store.

The photographer, unfortunately, displayed considerable lack of judgment
over the course of those two weeks.  Blame it on the thin mountain air.  The
worst thing I did was to substitute four rolls of Kodachrome 64 for my
customary Kodachrome 25 for a series of action photos.  I now see what the
detractors of Kodachrome were talking about last month.  The Kodachrome 64
colors were washed out and the slides lacked snap.  It did not help that I
overexposed a half stop, but even in the shadows, colors were weak.  The
only time I would consider trying Kodachrome 64 again would be under mixed
artificial lighting.  Otherwise, I'm a Kodachrome 25 man.  In any event, I
ended up with only 15 good (i.e. competition quality) stereo pairs out of
the 400 or so I shot.  Obviously, I should have spent much more of my time
thinking and looking as opposed to leaning on the shutter release.  It is
interesting that I made no in-camera duplicates of the best pictures - the
situation invariably disappeared too quickly.  But I have lots of duplicates
of mediocre shots.

Oleg Vorobyoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Vorobyoff <olegv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, July 29, 2000 5:14 AM
Subject: [photo-3d] Re: Slide Processing Nightmare


>Mike Kersenbrock wrote:
>>I took 32 rolls of Provia 100F in Hawaii a couple weeks ago, and I've
>>started looking through my third 8-roll batch yesterday (having them
>>done in batches, I'm chicken).  So far the colors have been fine.
>
>This underscores one of my problems.  Eight rolls would ordinarily
>account for a month's worth of continuous shooting for me.  End up
>with too many eggs per basket.  I've been trying to loosen up by
>taking in-camera duplicates when possible, but I cannot bring myself
>to trip the shutter if I feel a picture is not quite right.  From past
>>experience, that feeling invariably means I'm about to waste film.
>
>>Good luck with A&I...Please report if you try them and
>>it works well!
>
>Will do.
>
>Oleg Vorobyoff