Originally posted by barondla Dwayne's was the last lab in the US, and possibly the world to develop Kodachrome. Compared to Kodachrome, Ektachrome is child's play to process.
Not quite historically correct. Lighthouse Labs here in Australia, in Sydney processed Kodachrome for about 2 years after its demise, with a huge amount of research, experimentation, trial and error. It then also offered custom roll-by-roll processing of PKL long after processing ceased, with a cost of
AUD$250 (!) per 35mm roll. Unsurprisingly, despite the legions of over-excited carnival barkers salivating over the prospect of the Kodachrome snaps being processed (finally!), there were only 2 takers, and the results were not up there with the original PKL processing quality. The message is rather for people still holding out for the proverbial Resurrection Day! But that's how difficult PKL is to process, as it is, under the skin, a B&W film with colour couplers added in processing. That bit was not so very straightforward!
Meanwhile, Ektachrome can be easily processed in a 3-bath home processing kit, one of which recently announced allows the novelty of changing the colour palette (aka profile) during the processing; this was on PetaPixel (?) somewhere recently.