***Kodak Retires Kodachrome Film***

[sanmich]

sanmich, just thinking your tag line is interesting in light of Kodachrome's death. 😉

I know, I know...
It may be a good time to update it. 🙄

 

[chris91387]

what's next, tri-x?

hmmm, that would be a fun poll. "what's the next film to be discontinued"?

r.i.p., my old friend.

- chris

 

[Gumby]

Maybe Plus-X first.

 

[batterytypehah!]

I'm always sad to see ANY item from analog photography disappear. I never liked Kodachrome too much myself but appreciated the images made with it.

My sentiments exactly. I've never shot a roll of Kodachrome in my life -- used to shoot a lot of chrome until it didn't make financial sense anymore but I was always a Fuji guy.

Just the other day though it occurred to me I should probably give it a try as I have a Grand Canyon & area trip coming up this summer. (Might even make it to Kodachrome Park.) Would I be nuts to start now?

BTW Camera Central still lists it, at $8.35/roll today.

 

[user237428934]

Niksoftware Color Exef Pro offers a Kodachrome 64 Film Filter 😀
But I think this is no help for the film aficionados.

 

[JoshRoot]

I learned a lot when I was out at Kodak HQ last week. Not the least of which was hearing a bunch of conversation about the Kodachrome situation.

Dwayne's is absolutely going to process Kodachrome through the end of Dec 2010. And unofficially, Dwayne's owner has said recently that he would consider keeping the line running if there was demand past that date. Meaning, of course, that there were still photogs cleaning the stuff out of their freezers. However, I wouldn't tell anyone to bet the farm on that. I'd say make plans to use up the Kodachrome you have in the next 18 months.

More importantly, there is no point for this to be a funeral. What's done is done, and we are all bummed I am sure. But now we know. As I said in my photo.net article on the "end of Kodachrome" announcement:

Tony D’Annunzio: [carrying Czervik’s golf bag] “What do you got in here, rocks?”
Al Czervik: “Are you kiddin’? When I was your age, I would lug fifty pounds of ice up five, six flights of stairs!”
Tony D’Annunzio: [puts down Czervik’s bag, exasperated] “So what?”
Al Czervik: “So what?” [opens compartment in golf bag, revealing radio] “So let’s dance!”

So we’ve all gotten the bad news, now what do we do? Just like our buddy Al tells us in Caddyshack, now we party. There’s nothing more we can worry about as far as Kodachrome is concerned because the end is here, the worst has happened, and the sky has fallen. So let’s not waste the next six months crying in our beer, let’s take advantage of that time and get out there and enjoy Kodachrome while we still can. If you’ve been a Kodachrome shooter all your life, this is your chance to make that one last amazing essay you’ve always wanted. Hell, if Daniel and the Kodachrome Project can do it, so can you. And if you’ve never shot Kodachrome, now if your chance to learn a little bit of photographic history before it passes you by. Pick up a couple rolls, load up the camera, get off the couch and go shoot.

http://photo.net/learn/film/slide-film/kodachrome-discontinued/

 

[MartinP]

Hmmm, it turns out the last place I bought Kodachrome (a small shop in Utrecht) doesn't stock it anymore.

Does anyone know a current stockist in NL ? I live in the Achterhoek, so I suppose I'll need to mail-order.

 

[KM-25]

Dwayne's Photo will most certainly have stock for some time. Even if other vendors choose to no longer carry it, Dwayne's will as they have the sole K-14 line.

http://dwaynesphoto.com/

 

[Trius]

I got this as an email. I'm going to shoot mine. I just have to figure out the right project for it.

Same here, Jan. I have several rolls of KR plus two rolls of K25. Not sure what project, though I would dearly love to get to Superior and have a Koda-gasm.

Jan, Windsor in distress/decline might be a destination in line with your type of work.

 

[Trius]

that so I shot some camping and canoeing pictures with it.

That's my plan. True North, and all.

 

[Lilserenity]

A real shame but the writing has been on the wall for a long time.

Just got back from walking the North Downs Way over the past fortnight and shot the lot on Kodachrome 64, 13 rolls of it and will be sending them out tomorrow.

My other project impression:mk semi-depends on it being finished in KR64 though I guess I'll just have to be flexible and drop one of those aims if I don't finish it in time either because I can't source enough KR64 or because it extends beyond 2010.

Either way, go out, shoot it, enjoy it and take some family and friend photos with it especially, it'll enshrine that moment in a way that no other colour film or digital process has yet proven it can do.

Will get at very least 1 more roll to do family shots this year, but I'm sure I'll shoot at least another 25 or so for impression:mk

So the time for Astia and E100G with an 81B has come at last!

 

[Trius]

I learned a lot when I was out at Kodak HQ last week.

You were in town last week and didn't tell me? :bang:

Of course, I wasn't, so it wouldn't have mattered, but at the very least you could have alerted me and I would have told you where I would have entertained you had I been in town. 😛

Earl

 

[JohnTF]

The first roll of 35mm film in my Signet 50 was Kodachrome 10, came with the camera, it was my first roll of 35mm ever. Years later I got a projector. ;-)

Regards, John

 

[sojournerphoto]

Well I shot Kodachrome in Africa in 95, so I just ordered 5 rolls for a last hurrah.

Mike

 

[Michael Markey]

Vicky
Thankyou for telling me about the Boots offer or I might have never shot it again.Getting all my old stuff scanned .Thirty five years worth of it. Went back to Boots last week and got three more rolls. You were right about the turnround time too. Very fast.

Michael

 

[MartinP]

Ahaaaa, maybe I can get my sister to buy a few packs from a Boots near her in London, and hang on to them for me . . .

 

[Michael Markey]

Good idea. Three for the price of two. About £25.

Mike

 

[Erik L]

i have some in a camera right now but now im too sad to shoot

 

[John Robertson]

Sad but inevitable considering the world economy state, and Kodaks shakey finances!!

 

[sojournerphoto]

Good idea. Three for the price of two. About £25.

Mike

Try 7 day shop or photoglossy - about 8.50 per roll

Mike