dallard
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FINALLY! I'm glad someone made the point that Kodak never made an effort to promote Kodachrome then bemoaned that no one used it anymore. But let's not get off on a Kodak bashing rant here. After all, they don't make E6 anymore and are therefore meaningless to slide shooters.I know that all sounds kind of far out, but I really feel like people are missing out on marketing here.
I feel like Kodak could have repackaged and resold Kodachrome to the cool kids with a handful of clever commercials on Mtv and IFC.
Hot chick on a bicycle in Brooklyn with a M3 shooting Kodachrome.
Print ads in Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, Vogue, and Spin.
Vintage Kodachrome T-Shirts at Boutiques.
They wouldn't have been able to keep it on the shelves.
Everybody and his hipster sister would have been clamoring for the unmatched 'authenticity' of Kodachrome's image quality.
That can still happen. I feel like it can.
Not for Kodachrome, but for film.
For slide film.
One thing I would like to suggest to folks here who want to see a surge in interest for E6 is to take one of those spare cameras you don't use too often, load a roll of slide film, and lend it to someone and get them hooked on it. It's not like the film manufacturers put any effort into marketing E6 so it's all up to us.