Yup. I'm lucky to have a local that not only orders anything but also does direct shipping. They kept me well supplied during the pandemic shutdowns.

Yes, my bad. Forgot Ektachrome was the E-6 name. It's been nearly 15 years, cut a girl some slack. :) Generally, anyone using slide film of any chemistry knows that if they bring it to a 1-hour lab they're getting C-41. Whether they shoot for it is their business. I never ran slide film through my machines because I was a testing nut (and got one district photo supervisor pissed at me for that refusal), but a lot of the old heads would do it for customers on the expectation that doing it a few times a year wouldn't hurt things too badly at the rate they changed chemicals.

Well, as opposed to what many minilab operators do with slide film intended for prints instead of slides, which is to just run it through the C-41 processor and damn the chemical consequences. The indie lab I referenced ran through so much Kodachrome that it was worth it for them to buy a dedicated unit. Meant they could also take on mail-in orders from other regional indie labs with quicker turnaround than the big processing houses.

I know a lot of the big mail-in labs used unified machines, but all the minilab units I saw were separated. It makes more sense for the 1-hour workflow and, for one indie lab I saw, it allowed them to have a separate processor for E-6, which they got a lot of from a local photography group.

Well, not for the C-41 side, since that's the film processor

I used to manage photo labs. Fuji machines were great, but my true love was the Noritsu machines I started on. They were absolute tanks and always put out a good print.

Super impressed with the shadows on the roof bits.