Maybe Kodachrome isn't dead yet...

When the film becomes more important than the photographs it creates, we have a problem.

I think enough is enough with Kodachrome mourning. Just my opinion.
 
The question I have to ask is ... will the lamented departure of Kodachrome be as mind numbingly annoying as the anticipated arrival of the Fuji X100?

Doubt it! 😀
 
good luck for the guy trying. hope he gets knowledgeable volunteers from Internet to help, otherwise its probably too big task.
 
Keith said:
The question I have to ask is ... will the lamented departure of Kodachrome be as mind numbingly annoying as the anticipated arrival of the Fuji X100?
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If you don't liek the X100, you don't have to read this... well, the other 13 threads on it. (OMG, I just got a tweet!)

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good luck to him, i admire the die-hard attitude. i'm all for it, really.

just one question: the film, where is he gonna get and keep getting the film to run through the machine to make this all worthwhile? i know, this is just a detail to someone who is obsessed with an idea, but seriously, does he have a 1000 rolls in a freezer? are there even 1000 rolls left in existence? right now there are about 15 or so rolls on ebay. oddly, some have bids on them!
 
GSNfan said:
When the film becomes more important than the photographs it creates, we have a problem.

I think enough is enough with Kodachrome mourning. Just my opinion.
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I am inclined to agree. It was great in its day, as a slide film anyway. But the reason we no longer have it is that sales were too low to make it worthwhile for the manufacturer. So I don't feel such a sense of loss for something that photographers largely weren't interested in anyway. I think I last used Kodachrome in the 80's.
 
From an archival standpoint, it sort of is in a way. The loss of Kodachrome is the loss of the most archivally stable colour material ever created. The images captured on Kodachrome whether "important" or not will far outlast those captured on other film. In a certain sense that makes them really important- and as of January, a finite resource.

GSNfan said:
When the film becomes more important than the photographs it creates, we have a problem.

I think enough is enough with Kodachrome mourning. Just my opinion.
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I think the chemicals are the problem.
If it wasn't, my guess is that Dwayne would have been much more flexible on the deadline...
 
I've been following that guy (I assume it's a guy) and his adventure closely! I think it's a way cool grassroots project! I wish him the best of luck! I'm sure cheering him on.

On the Kodachrome Project they had some photos of him hauling the machine away on a trailer. I guess he literally saved the thing from the scrap yard.

He also seems to have some very competent people helping with the chemistry and the like. The three colo(u)r developers appear to be the tough part.
 
There are loads of Kodachrome still floating aroung, and mind you those who didn't catch last train to Dwaynes.

For some time machine would run non-stop, happen he set-up process.
 
Pickett Wilson said:
Well, if the "new Kodachrome" looks like the "new Polaroid," he just needs to bury the equipment right now.
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I think this is exactly what's going to happen. The knowledge isn't in the machine, it's in the industrial process for the film and the chemicals. It will take him years to recreate that to a usable level, much less to the level of control that Kodak had by the time it was being manufactured in mass quantities.

Like the new Polaroid, I think it's great for a project - but as a product? It would take a miracle for one hobbyist to recreate all of the processes that likely hundreds of engineers honed and perfected over decades. Yes, the patent is public and was given up by Kodak, but it's not a how-to manual.
 
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