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Randy Atkins wrote:

Gerry, I'm really enjoying your "vintage" family 3-d pictures. Thank you!

I'm curious about the developing process of the slides back in the day... Could your rolls be dropped off at the neighborhood Fotomat, or did they have to go to a specialty developer? Also, did the slides come with negatives, like the printed pictures did?

Regards,

Randy

Hi Randy,

I used mostly Kodak Kodachrome for my slides. And later on, some were Ektachrome. The Kodachrome required a special chemistry processing at labs equipped to handle that. Most were owned and operated by Eastman Kodak. So the rolls were sent with a mailer to one of the listed labs. They could be dropped off at camera stores and were also then shipped to such designated labs. Took at least a week to get the unmounted rolls back to me. And I chose to mount them myself in metal masks and cardboard folders. Ektachrome used a different chemistry and could be handled by lots more labs. And could be as fast as the lab you chose and price you could deal with..... My vintage, or just plain old Kodachrome slides are mostly more color stable than my E-6 reversal films. But Kodachrome was not a low budget process then. A toast to the days of Kodachrome, a fine way to do color. And glad you are enjoying my vintage slide conversions. ( I won't go into the difference between reversal films and negative films since there is plenty on line to go into that. No, no negatives in my shooting. Was possible, but I wanted slides not prints..)

Sincerely, Gerry Siegel Hawaii