Maybe Kodachrome isn't dead yet...

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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Substitute film above for Yashica FFRF (or Leica) cameras and ... :D :D

I understand your point, and I don't know the motives of the man who has the newly acquired Kodak processing machine, but actually, Kodachrome and photography were related. Kodachrome made some of the most beautiful photos possible.

apodeictic said:
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.
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That and the way they reproduced color was what made it such a great film.

As to another poster's comment that it was getting to expensive and most photographers weren't interested in it; that has some validity. It was always more expensive. But you got what you paid for. Digital likely had something to do with it as it has slowly been taking the place of a lot of film.

I would love to see more Kodachrome processing. But along with that, I would love to see newly manufactured film. If cost was a problem before, it isn't going to get better as the stocks dwindle.

Maybe enough is enough, and we should just let it go. sigh.
 
LOL what does a film have to do to die in peace
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I'll concede that commercial Kodachrome died Tuesday.

However, Grassroots Kodachrome is still in diapers and has yet to take its first baby steps, but I'm sure it will outlive me by decades if not centuries.

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." :)

btgc said:
There are loads of Kodachrome still floating aroung, and mind you those who didn't catch last train to Dwaynes.
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There's estimates of tens of thousands of unprocessed rolls out there.

I know there was no shortage of it on That Auction Site<tm> the last time (post-deadline) I checked, still going at or above list price.

I don't doubt that Kittle will be able to get the K-lab running and process existing film.

The Holy Grail of Grassroots Kodachrome, however, would be to successfully produce new film stock!
 
I'm not that into how it works. But Polaroid was dead, too. And now the former production chief and an investor bought the former plant and make new pola stuff.
 
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?

Doubt it! :D
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Good job with merge of two top-topics into one thread! :D:D:D
 
My Uncle and his dad, almost 60 years ago (Leica IIIf/5cm Elmar - no PP at all):

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It still looks better than the Velvia from that time.

There are 2 truths in photography: TRI-X and Kodachrome.
 
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bigeye said:
My Uncle and his dad, almost 60 years ago (Leica IIIf/5cm Elmar - no PP at all):

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It still looks better than the Velvia from that time.

There are 2 truths in photography: TRI-X and Kodachrome.
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Say what you will.
I see something special in the picture above.
It's like a scene from a movie.

Honestly think about what the same scene would look like out of a digital camera.
Sharper, yes.
Cleaner, yes.
More details, yes.

Better? no.

Except if the digital camera is Fuji X100, of course. :rolleyes:
 
Even if it only lasts until all the outstanding film is processed then it's done something. Meantime I don't imagine there's a groundswell to make "new KodaKromE" so they can keep on processing. I see it as a 3 year project which will go "lights out" when the economics of processing a couple of rolls a week become the reality.

@Pickett... I'm buying the Polaroid. I like it. Sorry you don't. Did you ever shoot Polaroid or Fuji? I'll take all your unused stock if you're tired of it. Just askin'
 
jan normandale said:
Even if it only lasts until all the outstanding film is processed then it's done something. Meantime I don't imagine there's a groundswell to make "new KodaKromE" so they can keep on processing. I see it as a 3 year project which will go "lights out" when the economics of processing a couple of rolls a week become the reality.

@Pickett... I'm buying the Polaroid. I like it. Sorry you don't. Did you ever shoot Polaroid or Fuji? I'll take all your unused stock if you're tired of it. Just askin'
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We haven't heard much about the new Polarid of late and your comments interest me ... because most of the remarks I've read so far have been much like Pickett's.

Someone needs to start a thread with examples of the new film ... I'd certainly be interested. It would probably turn into the usual bun fight though I guess! LOL
 
shadowfox said:
Say what you will.
I see something special in the picture above.
It's like a scene from a movie.
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Maybe so. Uncle Earl on the right earned a Bronze Star 10 years before this taken. He was in the first wave at Normandy and got as far as the Ardennes, where they were overrun in the first assault. Came home on a litter. He was a hell of a guy. For you literary types, PG Wodehouse lived across the creek on the left in the picture.

I didn't mention that it's a scan from an Epson V300, which is quite soft. Looks like Dad moved a bit, too (probably 1/50@16). The low contrast flare goes to the Elmar; but it's a bit sharper in print.

I really don't care if it dies or not, but for 50 years, it was color. And, while it isn't to today's taste, it had a hell of an honest look. It's an old man that had a great life, how can you knock
 
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