Kodachrome developed for $3.88 a roll

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I have seen this mentioned before but two weeks ago I dropped off two rolls of Kodachrome 64 at the Wal Mart film department and today they came back. The cost was $3.88 a roll!

I don't know how it is processed these days but it didn't come in Kodachrome mount but a generic one that read Color Transparency.

I guess some good can be said for Wal Marts low balling.

Chad
 
ChadHahn said:
I have seen this mentioned before but two weeks ago I dropped off two rolls of Kodachrome 64 at the Wal Mart film department and today they came back. The cost was $3.88 a roll!

I don't know how it is processed these days but it didn't come in Kodachrome mount but a generic one that read Color Transparency.

I guess some good can be said for Wal Marts low balling.
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Interesting. I wonder if they have their own lab...or they outsource (I don't know how to say "if you know what I mean" in Mandarin)
 

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Though I am not entirely certain, to the best of my knowledge all labs now send to Dwayne's Photo in Kansas for K-14 processing; I believe that Dwayne's may be the last Kodachrome lab in the US.

I work at a small locally run lab in North Dakota and Dwayne's is where we send just about everything outside of C-41 and black and white. The Color Transparency mounts sound like the same style we receive back from Dwayne's when we send out E-6.
 
That's what I heard. In fact I heard that Wal Mart sends all their slide work to Dwaynes.

Maybe that's why they do the Kodachrome for so cheap, it's a fixed price for a roll of slides and if Kodachrome slips in well they just deal with it.

Chad
 
ChadHahn said:
I have seen this mentioned before but two weeks ago I dropped off two rolls of Kodachrome 64 at the Wal Mart film department and today they came back. The cost was $3.88 a roll!

I don't know how it is processed these days but it didn't come in Kodachrome mount but a generic one that read Color Transparency.

I guess some good can be said for Wal Marts low balling.

Chad
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I use Walmart all the time for this -- great service and results. They also do E6.
 
ChadHahn said:
That's what I heard. In fact I heard that Wal Mart sends all their slide work to Dwaynes.

Maybe that's why they do the Kodachrome for so cheap, it's a fixed price for a roll of slides and if Kodachrome slips in well they just deal with it.

Chad
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The word I've heard is that the've cut volume deals with outside labs. I've heard that Rocky Mountain does their Kodachrome. Walmart will even process Super 8 and 16mm film movie flim a low prices -- amazing, but apparently true. I think the interesting fact is not how cheap Walmart is, but rather how much those cherished "mom-and-pop" places are overcharging for this.
 
Will wal-mart do 120 transparencies, like E-6 Velvia?
 
I guess it's either buying $8.50 mailers from A&I (who, BTW, only do E-6) and wait for them within 10 days, or pay that little and wait three weeks.

I guess I'll run a trial roll in my Walmart. This is not the first time I read about K-14 done through Dwayne's, though... but given the current prices (and considering that the money ends up in the same lab regardless), why not?
 
Grrr... I hate to have a reason to deal with walfart but considering the best local price is $10 a roll (from a local store, so Dwayne's & no shipping, as such) which I considered pretty good. :bang: :bang: :bang:

ully said:
Why do loathe Walmart, I have never been to one but seems to be they are just another store but with better prices??
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Ah, that's a long hard story to go into in any kind of short order. There are plenty of diatribes out there on the web if you want to read them. Suffice it to say that I consider them to be the absolute worst place I will willingly shop at - unlike, say, Whole Foods or Menard's which I refuse to patronize under any circumstances. There are many others with different priorities in that mess on the web, so your milage will vary 😉

William
 
Rodinal Addict said:
Will wal-mart do 120 transparencies, like E-6 Velvia?
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I've done 35mm E6, but not tried 120 E6 yet. The Walmart near me has a list of special services and I do recall a variety of things being on it such as black and white processing. I'll try 120 soon.

While I'm not a huge fan of the "ambience" of Walmart, I've personally never bought into the demonization campaign conducted against them by the AFL/CIO and their small shop owner allies. Perhaps it's because I've worked at a number of "mom and pop" businesses in my youth and was treated far worse by them than Walmart treats their employees. I was also locked out of trade unions when I was doing construction work in my youth since I didn't know the right people, so I don't have any great sympathy for them either. Some of them were headed by down-right gangsters too that would ... well you've all seen the Godfather -- it was real, let me tell you. Perhaps it was better -- motivated me to go to college.

And any friend of Kodachrome is a friend of mine! Period, end of story.

*END OF PRO WALMART RANT* 🙂
 
If Dwanes is the only place in the U.S. that still developes Kodachrome then sounds like it would be a good business to start. If WalMart is $3.88 roll then I wonder what Sams Club charges. They are quite abit cheaper than Walmart. Funny how we all hate Walmart but we still shop there. I even started getting my bp medicine there because with my copay insurance it's $10.00. At Walmart it's only $4.00.🙂 Hey they even have the smilly faces at Walmart🙂 Roll back!😀
 
Clark color labs does kodachrome too for around 5 dollars total when postage is considered. Never have made a mistake so far.. They don't do 120 though.
Walmart is far away from here.
 
gb hill said:
If Dwanes is the only place in the U.S. that still developes Kodachrome then sounds like it would be a good business to start.
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It's the only place in the U.S. that does it because it will be a not-good business to keep: Kodachrome will be discontinued, as well as the commercial line of chemicals needed to develop it. Which is why everybody else who used to do it has stopped doing it.
 
ully said:
Why do loathe Walmart, I have never been to one but seems to be they are just another store but with better prices??
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Not to turn this into a psuedo-political witch hunt thread, but Wal-Mart is evil. They have done more to hurt small family owned business in the U.S. than any other single entity, besides the run-of-the-mill complaints of horrible working conditions, low wages, anti-labor practices in every country the do business in, and a host of other ills. Wal-Mart is one of the best examples world-wide of what's wrong with the world today. Check out these sites for more info:
http://walmartwatch.com/
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/
http://www.network-centricadvocacy.net/2005/01/walmart_hurts_c.html
http://www.reason.org/commentaries/balaker_20040126.shtml
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2003/UFCW-Wal-Mart-Hurts30jul03.htm
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
 
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