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Just read this on APUG. I've got ten rolls here.
Sad Day.
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It says Dwayne's will offer processing until end of 2010.
Doesn't seem long enough - time to get shooting.
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I shot my first roll of Kodachrome recently, I found 10 rolls very cheap in a local shop and I had a feeling it was now or never...
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Ruh-Roh Shaggy! I'm ordering some Kodachrome pronto. At least I'll get a little taste of it before it goes away forever.
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I have a half dozen shots left in my Yashica FX-3. The next roll will be Kodachrome. My Nikon N75 will also get a roll of Kodachrome. After that, we'll have to see. I'm debating on ordering a couple more rolls today while they are still in stock.
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Better shoot it now. I have my 6 rolls left and i plan on shooting them all this summer. Dewaynes says it will process thorough 2010, but I'm not going to risk hanging on too long.
You can process Kodachrome in B&W chemistry and get some beautiful negs, but then the magic is gone.
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Man, I haven't had the opportunity to ever shoot a roll. I guess at some point this summer I'm gonna try to buy up some rolls and get them shot soon to get to experience some of the magic.
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That's a good point Gray. I'm saving a couple rolls for the fall foliage, though.
Anyone have any suggestions for us who want a good neutral film that isn't full of the over saturated fake colors of Velvia and her kin? On another forum I saw someone suggestions Ektachrome E100G. Anyone here want to toss ideas out?
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18 months more developing! Sheesh, I'd better shoot nothing other than Kodachrome for a while so that I can actually use the stock I have!
What a waste...
I hear that it is totally impractical to dev K-14 at home, even if you could get hold of the chemicals because it requires re-exposure and that sort of thing.
Bugger.
Mama, please don't take my Kodachrome away...
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Hmmm... to order some rolls from 7DS or not.. I've never shot any either.
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I never really thought I'd be so saddened by the loss of any film stock, but I reconnected with Kodachrome through a massive effort to scan over a thousand slides from my family's life - 75% of which were Kodachrome.
The two most beautiful pictures of myself and my sister were made on 35mm Kodachrome using my father's Pentax K1000.
30-something years later I made a picture of my Mum and the image felt dreamy and at the same time the level of detail was unflinching. I wish I had used the whole roll making pictures of my family.
Perhaps I'll use those last three rolls in my fridge for pictures of people I love. A fitting end to this way of interpreting the world.
The Kodachrome look now firmly passes into the realm of nostalgia.
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Velvia is definitely a high saturation film, the normal saturation offerings from Fuji are Provia and Astia. Kodak still offer E100G and EPP, and you can sometimes find EPN and EPR on Ebay.
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a very sad day indeed i only have one roll, but think i'll get some more
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I find Kodak's statement that photographers have migrated from Kodachrome a little disingenuous. If you discontinue a product (Kodachrome 200, Kodachrome 25), OF COURSE people won't be buying it, because it's not there to be bought. Sheesh.
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Guess I better load that Super 8 cartridge sooner than I planned....
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Twenty years from now when everyones digital images have dissolved into the vapor of planned obsolescence, we will REALLY miss Kodachrome
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Super 8 Kodachrome stopped a few years ago right?
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Well this isn't surprising but its indeed horrible. I was going through some family photos earlier this week, and I found a lot of 50+ year old beautiful kodachrome slides. They inspired me to begin shooting slides, which I've been holding off on because of the cost.
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E100G or Astia will be the closest you can get today. With scanning and adjustments you can make either look like Kodachrome due to similar grain. Nothing out of the box is even close. I just ranted about it on my site LifeInDigitalFilm.
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I just posted a link to this on my Facebook page, with these comments:
"They say all good things in life come to an end. Today we announced that Kodak will retire KODACHROME Film, concluding its 74-year run."
I know it's unfashionable to still like and use photographic film in this age of instant gratification and shiny surfaces but many of the photographs we remember were made with film, with light and chemicals and silver salts and precisely measured color dyes. Simple tools can yield complex images and spark meaningful responses. I'm not convinced that today's more complex tools offer the same opportunity or the same result to as many people.
Photography was invented by and for people who couldn't draw but yearned to create images of what they saw. I don't know if today's still frames (what many photographs are, as you hear the shutter whirring away) have the same feel. There's something very human about having to choose, about not being able to get everything, and learning how to make things work, to get the results you want.
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I find Kodak's statement that photographers have migrated from Kodachrome a little disingenuous.
Well, in the article, they quote some shooters who were already looking to a post-Kodachrome workflow, as the processing offered some challenges. The KR-14 process was not available everywhere and as lead times got tighter/pressure to deliver increased, something had to give. Blame us and our drive for the 24 hour news cycle . . . .
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Remember when you think of Kodak in the future that it's simply business.
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We all knew the day was coming soon. Even I, who grew up with but never shot Kodachrome, prepared for it.
My first roll of Kodachrome is still in the fridge awaiting at least one more before I send it off. I think I have three more. I'll try to make them count and get them all shot and done before the end of 2010, and that's about all there is to be done about it.
Things pass, and once Kodachrome is completely gone I personally don't see the point of trying to replicate its look when we all should know full well that's not really possible and the best you're going to get is an imitation. Part of the point of film is that every emulsion has unique character. If you spend your energy and attention trying to duplicate a bygone film's look instead of trying to do the best images with the film you actually have, you're cheating yourself.
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I looked at this thread, expecting it to be another "Kodachrome is no longer in stock at _______. Have they discontinued Kodachrome?" one.
I've never been more sad to find out that I was wrong. I have a couple of rolls that have been sitting around...I may have to get some more and give it a last go, but it almost seems like there isn't much point anymore.
Somehow this feels like the tipping point for Kodak. I think I may have to become one of those people who starts stockpiling Tri-X...which at least I'll be able to develop myself for many years to come.
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Photographers by and large have migrated from Kodachrome. Velvia's introduction in 1990 really started it, Velvia being the first E-6 film to offer any real advantage over Kodachrome. National Geographic's switch to digital was another major nail in the Kodachrome coffin, as they were the biggest single user of Kodachrome. That essentially killed K25 and K200 sales. K64 soldiered on until now, but the increasing cost and increasing turnaround of shooting K64 resulted in sales dropping off even as other professional films sales have leveled off (and in some cases even increased).
It's hard to justify $20/roll and 4 week turnaround processing when E-6 is $10 and 3 hours. The processing issues are likely the primary cause of K64's demise.
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Upside is Kodak prepared for this and has been proactive today to explain their reasoning, which needless to say, makes business sense. I posted on my blog and within an hour had a comment from Kodak. It is a sad day, but considering they released Ektar recently (a film that has unique characteristics and is not a tradional consumer film) it shows hope that Kodak will keep moving forward with film. Hopefully they will develop an E-6 film that is similar in nature to Kodachrome eventually. K-14 was just too expensive and limiting to expect continued life of the film.
Not being an apologist, but Kodak really has impressed me with the handling of this matter. Although I don't get the campaign of photographers using E100G instead. They can't convince us that an existing film will be a good replacement, as if it was, they would have D/C'd Kodachrome long ago.
No, this is another Tech Pan situation, using TMax 100 is not a valid substitute, although that is recommendation.
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Mawz: $20 a roll? A 36exp roll is $8 at Adorama and processing is $5 from Dwayne's through Walmart ...
I guess the thing I should mention is that while I loved Kodachrome it always made me sad that I couldn't get it in MF. Perhaps this move will get me to further appreciate some of the other films out there.
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@your mistakes . . .: My point was that Kodak created the necessity for photographers to move to other films- first other Kodachromes, then other film entirely, by discontinuing their own products. To select a couple of photographers, albeit aces in the world of Kodachrome, to tell us everything will be okay, just move on to another film (note the suggestion of Ektachrome, but not Velvia), smacks of some fairly heavy PR spin.
That said, I'm no innocent, and I realize that Kodak probably agonized over the decision far longer and harder than we did or will. I understand that business comes down to numbers and the numbers were not in favor of continuing production. It's just a bummer to see something unique disappear.
And, yes, I'll keep purchasing Kodak stock; I'm very intrigued by the new Ektar, as a matter of fact.
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Twenty years from now when everyones digital images have dissolved into the vapor of planned obsolescence, we will REALLY miss Kodachrome
yep, just like now with Kodachrome's planned obsolescence now
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Kodachrome is my favourite film, it's really sad to hear that, I won't be buying any other film from Kodak anymore.
Kodak and Kodachrome, a winemaker and their best wine with hundreds years of tradition... no, it's not right.
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: of course, they added new products. That's what companies do. Obviously, there is something magic about the Kodachrome process that was impossible to replicate, but it's not like they killed Kodachrome when they rolled out the E100 line. They kept it going as long as it made sense, given the costs of production. They shuttered their labs long ago, so they haven't made any money from that in awhile.
I don't agree that "Kodak created the necessity" since Kodachrome was still available: they created the opportunity, and weighing the options of time, cost, and convenience, E-6 carried the day. I haven't used it in years, as I didn't realize it was still around (I thought everyone was shooting from their stash). But it might be worth laying in a few rolls for posterity.
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I just bought 10 rolls last weekend. I don't know why I did. I was in B&H buying other film and I thought "Let me try some Kodachrome"...I'm glad I am impulsive.
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I wish they announced this last week so I could've included some Kodachrome in my last film order.
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This is sad, but inevitable. I haven't used it for years, preferring Agfa (sniff) and now settling for Fuji. I'm not a huge fan of Kodak in general, but I am giving the Ektar a try.
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Hmmm, makes me wish I bid higher on that brick of 25asa Kodachrome that was on ebay a couple weeks back. Now it doesn't matter that it was 19 rolls of 20 exposure. From a photo studios freezer...Went for about $160. Kicking my own ass...
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"a very sad day indeed i only have one roll, but think i'll get some more "
Ahahah...No..No You Wont.
k64 was probably being ripped off the shelves within minutes of the announcement. B&H is out right now. Other businesses will see similar inventory gaps in the coming moments
Heh,I Have one roll left in the fridge to
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K64 == K14 process line.
K25 == K12 process line.
Dwayne's runs K14 now till 2010.
Nobody runs K12 though. What would you do with that brick, B + W processing?
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Appears to be in stock -- I ordered a chunk this morning.
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Kodak are still spooling from the master reel. They haven't dumped all their stock like they did with HIE and EIR.
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I believe Kodachrome II 25 asa was K12
but Kodachrome Professional 25 asa is/was a K14 process.
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Sad day indeed... This reminds me to order a couple of rolls from dwaynes when i send them my current undeveloped rolls...
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I must admit that it is a sad situation. But I should remind you, that we had already discontinued 8mm motion-film stocks. And they were for along period of time. Until recently Kodak started production again. And even more - another company appeared that started producing NEW super 8mm film cameras and projectors. I want to say - never say "never". It's possible to hear in some years on that production of KODACHROME is back again.
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Old Uncle -- Kodachrome 25 was K-14 process when Kodak stopped its production. Films requiring K-12 processing ended about 1975, so any Kodachrome produced since then was K-14, whether it was 25, 40, 64, or 200.
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I sent some K25 Pro to USA and it was processed-- so it must be K14 process,then a few weeks ago I was given 9 cassettes of K200 by the Chief Photographer of the Yellow Advertiser newspaper and I rushed out to expose a roll and sent ot off to Switzerland for onward to USA and am waiting,waiting,waiting.........
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Ben J. Boyle [deleted] says:
Jessops @ Cribbs Causeway in Bristol have a rummage box of film going cheap. As of 6pm this evening there was a fair amount of kodachrome in there but I settled for five rolls of t-max in 120 for £6 ;)
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Guess where I'm going tomorrow morning.
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Sad, angry, bitter, I'm feeling all of that right now. Man, I've been hanging onto 3 rolls of PKR for a while now, just took one out to start shooting them, figured I'd do nothing but K64 from now on, and the buggers discontinue it! I've just checked b&h to see if I can get more and it looks like they don't have any. Very unhappy right now.
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he he. I'll wait for pay day next Monday and pop back in on my way home, see if you left me any ;)
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Ok, my mistake, thanks for the info. My last MF roll was PKR 6033 -- 64 ASA if I remember correctly. I hope to be scanning some of that next week. I can't even find the 5x4 stuff....
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I've got six sheets of "4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in" (Half plate) sheet Kodachrome.
And when I say Kodachrome, I mean it. Not Kodachrome64 or Kodachrome25, not even Kodachrome II. This is the original beauty.
Unfortunately, it expired in October 1947, and I don't think that even Dwaynes can process it, even if they had the machinery, since:
"Kodak has never revealed the chemical structures of Kodachrome dyes. Reverse-engineering the pre-K14 dyes, which are highly complex organic molecules, is out of the question. That means it is impossible to re-create the chemistry required to process pre-K14 Kodachrome as color films."
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, but I might just keep it as a souvenir of a golden (almost literally) age of slide films...
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Seems to me, the best thing we can do, is use Kodachrome generously for projects close to our hearts.
No panic. No stress. But in the zone. With appreciation and kindness.
Have fun. Enjoy. Be happy.
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Has there been any talk about how much longer Dwaynes will process Kodachrome?? I think I might get a roll, just to try it out, before its gone for good.
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Go to Kodak's web page for information. Through 2010.
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Just found this group. I'm the only member at the moment, but it looks like a nice idea.
www.flickr.com/groups/1114075@N24/
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Well my idea is to Shoot more E6 film I can't bring K14 back but I can shoot E6.
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I guess that's a good way to look at it Larry. Plus you shoot more MF anyway.
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Hey Its funny that I discovered The Existence of Kodachrome Just January of this year and rushed to buy two rolls when I became aware of its situation. I was deathly afraid that k64 (A legend, Icon, and driving force in photographic history) would suddenly vanish without me ever experiencing it...
Now look at the news today... Thank God I Bought it when I did...wow...
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I've been reading about this all over the internet...everywhere. On Yahoo, on Photo.net, Apug.org. Everywhere. So much for "no one uses Kodachrome anymore." It seems to me a LOT of people were still using it, and a LOT of people are very upset about this.
I really wish there was some way another company could take over manufacturing Kodachrome, like how "The Impossible Project" is planning to start making integral instant film again to work on Polaroid cameras.
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Maybe they were throwing away too much of the last master roll so the bean counters told them it was losing too much money?
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"Thank God I Bought it when I did...wow... "
I think there is a new master roll being coated and that's it, but it's still 10 thousand rolls or something
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really frickin' sad. I stashed some though and I'm gonna go and clean my supplier out on friday.
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So I just checked B&H, Adorama, and Freestyle and they are all out of stock :( I'm tempted to just order some from Adorama, since it says it's just on backorder.
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Dwayne's sells it. For those of us far far away it's cheaper than Adorama just on account of the freight being much cheaper
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apparently Ektachrome is next on the chopping block. They won't stock it in Asia anymore anyway. They reckon the vivid color stuff sells better......WTF!
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One Of My Chilean Contacts Reports That kodak's pulled out chilly recently..or at least reduced it's presence there.
Very uncool...
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In response to the Op's Plea for guidance in this kodachrome-less, money driven, digital reality:
I Don't know about you but I'm going to try some kodak's e fam or provia (something I'm familiar with...only expired)...
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Nobody has mentioned it -- perhaps we're all just desensitized to all of the job losses and economic destruction going on -- but today I feel for the 100 or so employees at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons KS; I wonder how many of those jobs were dependent on the mail order business they got because they were the last ones keeping us all in Kodachrome. Must have been some pride in that work, well deserved, and something that would be hard to replicate in this modern world and a small midwestern town.
I feel lucky to have shot my first roll of Kodachrome earlier this month -- and double lucky I asked Dwayne's to send 10 fresh rolls back.
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@hasseldad: I think I'll be sending my E6 to Dwayne's in future, mainly because, believe it or not, they're cheaper for E6 including postage both ways to me in New Zealand than any of the labs I've found in this country! Amazing!
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Adorama had the film this morning when I first read about the termination:
Kodak Kodachrome KR 64 Color Slide Film ISO 64, 35mm Size, 36 Exposure, Transparency, USA -
(SKU: KKKR36U) 10 $7.99 $79.90
Type: Package
Status: In Transit - On Time
Scheduled Delivery: 06/24/2009
Shipped To: GA, US
Shipped/Billed On: 06/22/2009
Service: GROUND
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You and your quick clicks, by noon PST it was on backorder.
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...i almost shed a tear. I visited the kodak website and saw for myself the announcement of the conclusion of kodachrome. The little slide show really shows its impact on photography during its life span. Its disappointing but i guess this is our photo reality. I believe film will continue but we won't have as many choices and the "legends will slowly pass the torch to newer economical emulsions and processing tech. looks like i need to go pick some KR up.
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Hey Folks Shoot every other film Kodak makes...... It is not their fault it made less than 1% of the profit their Film division makes and that is only 30% of all they make... but the film has kept the other 70% above water.... Come on how many of you have shot more than 4 rolls in the last year? Don't cry.. She had a beautiful life.. Do her proud...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hSXKjHDKkY
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I think this is a wake-up call for us to shoot as much slide film as we can while it's still around. We all know that slide film sales make up only around one percent of the total film sold around the world, and of that amount only a very tiny portion of it was Kodachrome.
So shoot as much E-6 as you can, unless you want it to take a place alongside the K-14 display in the Library of Congress.
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"Where do we go now??"
Well for starters maybe some of us should quit buying 10 year old expired slide film. I mean if you really want to support the manufacturers that is. Not saying it would have saved Kodachrome. Just seems odd how many lament the loss of a film but never supported it in the first place.
I never shot enough Kodachrome to really get a feel for it. But there are plenty of really good slide films left.
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Gary: I think part of the problem a lot of amateurs have is the fact that at $9 a roll, it's a lot easier to get it expired in big lots on eBay. Pros just pass the costs on to the client but some of us have a hard time paying $0.35 a slide.
When I shot Chromes in High school (late 90s) I paid the expensive price of like $8 for film and developing (which my dad used to complain about the cost of as he would only occasionally buy me slide film)
Kumquat: I plan on doing just that. I have TONS of expired C41 given to me by photographers going out of the business so I want to plow through that first.
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What's wrong with shooting negatives?
And plus, ektachrome is still in production right? I've always been impressed with ektachrome.
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Chris: Nothing wrong with negatives - I just prefer positives ;-)
Seriously, there's just a different look to a chrome. Some of us prefer it. I still shoot tons of negative film, though.
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www.flickr.com/photos/chipbandit99/1570078987/in/set-7215...
There was this song video kill the radio star well that is my take on the kodachrome above
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Are you using that time machine again??
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Found out this morning. Almost cried on the bus. I've still got my first ever roll, unopened, waiting for an opportunity to use it. Looks like the EOS 500 is coming to the South of France with me this time!
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You know what's kind of interesting? I was going through some slides on my desk and some are Elite Chrome 100. It's not Kodachrome but darn it I liked the look of it. Perhaps I should stock up on that.
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Wow. I know we take photographs for nostalgia's sake. But this is too damned ironic..........
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I've never shot much slide film, but when I heard Dwayne's was the last to process Kodachrome, I bought a roll, just to feel like I had been part of history. I guess I saw the writing on the wall. I'm glad I shot that one roll. The world will keep turning. I'm shooting my second roll of Astia right now. I'm sure it's not the same, but I like it. I like film. Long live film. This was my favortie shot off of my first/last roll of K64:
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I strongly feel that kodachrome is the harbinger of film's doom.
Kodachrome is the beginning(The first commercially successful color film...Ever) and the end. Its the alpha (Standard for awesome) and the omega.
Have any of you seen financial documents from kodak* or fujifilm?** It no secret that film sales are down massively but the amount of money lost from 2008 to 2009 is troubling...I wonder How long will they will drag this heavy burden...
I thought kodachrome would last a little longer,but, look at it now...
Maybe I'm being pessimistic
* phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9Mzg3N...
** www.fujifilmholdings.com/en/pdf/investors/finance/results...
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Dwayne pretty much had a monopoly on developing Kodachrome so is it surprising a large company like Kodak can not afford to keep manufacturing in ever decreasing volume. Considering it is us the film users that really stopped using Kodachrome many year ago we should actually be thanking Kodak for supporting low volumes for so many years. Maybe if more people had been shooting it more labs would have been developing it and Kodak would have had enough volume to keep producing it. Locally E6 processing seems to be going the same way
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Don't say things like that, you're scaring the children.
I don't think Kodachrome is the harbinger of anything. It's so far out of the mainstream that I don't think it represents the rest of the films out there at all. I mean, expensive to get, 1 lab in the world to process, hard to scan, etc etc. It was arguably obsolete in 1990, surprising it's hung on this long
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that's what I'm really scared of. It seemed inevitable that kchrome would go. The processing is extremely difficult compared to E-6 and only 1 company did it. In the past 6 months the only 2 pro labs in miami who did E-6 stopped. When slide film goes I think we'll truly be lost.
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"Don't say things like that, you're scaring the children."
bahaha
Like I said, Maybe I'm over reacting. I Just know that the necessity of money, some practicalities, and the issue of convenience is flagrantly against film...which is one of the few things in this world I do not want to see disappear.
I feel threatened...
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Film isn't going anywhere. The new Ektar is testament to that. If Kodak didn't see a future for film (video or photographic), the shareholders would never had allowed the company to spend money on developing, manufacturing, and supplying new film to the consumer / pro-sumer market. They would have just sold the technology to competitors and gotten out of the film business.
The sucess of the new Ektar no doubt contributed the demise of Kodachrome. They WERE, afterall, going after a C-41 replacement for transparencies. And you may not see the similarities of quality and look in Ektar to Kodakchrome, but I sure do.
With that said, I'm going to order and shoot one final roll (thought I did that in the early 90's while growing up) of Kodachrome. I'm as sentimental and nostalgic as the next guy/girl. And this last roll is going to count. Should someone start a group/pool titled "Farewell, Goodbye, Amen..... Your Last Roll"?
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Personally, seeing as people have been saying film's dying since the first digicrapcams, I don't feel afraid at all. I feel as unthreatened by the prospect that film may be gone one day when I go shooting as I do about the prospect of gasoline being gone one day when I drive my car. So what if it's gone one day, enjoy it now! Stop moaning and go shoot something!
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"issue of convenience is flagrantly against film" Dunno about that... In my town the digital printing places tend to be very busy and have a big backlog. It's much faster to go across the road to the pharmacy with your film and they will have a set of prints for you much faster than the digital place.
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" And this last roll is going to count. Should someone start a group/pool titled "Farewell, Goodbye, Amen..... Your Last Roll"? "
great group idea Wayne
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"n my town the digital printing places"
Oh no...the "d" word. I tried to avoid that... I'm not familiar with this impeding backlawg.
"It's much faster to go across the road to the pharmacy and they will have a set of prints for you"
Maybe in that aspect, yes...But I don't make much use of prints.
The convenience thing isn't centered around the whole 'instant gratification' problem.
Film is hard find locally for ME(beyond the lowest of the low on kodak and fuji's product line.) If I knew where to find Kodachrome on a shelf(safe from internet shoppers) within a 50 mile radius I would have jetted there instantly. I know one place in my town that sells 400tx and two Kodak Chrome$ :(
Film cameras's and film knowledge is not ubiquitous. I've mentioned Kodachrome to some of my peers and-more recently- to my family and even the elders don't know what it is. Even online, film wisdom is scarce. It sucks to know that children born in the past decade will have no idea why film is. Even people born in the 1990 are borderline clueless when it comes to film.
I'm sure I could think of more reasons why film is inconvenient but whatever. Its likely that the situation is different from town to town.
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Even in my local flickr group there seems to be much misinformation and fear of film, most of them haven't used a film camera or if they have it was long ago and they didn't know what they were doing. I'm trying, slowly to educate them.
When I buy film, I don't get it at my local store. I would have to rush across town during my lunch hour, pay too much for it, and rush back. Ordering online means it turns up the next day at work, I don't even have to leave my desk! Cheap too.
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With this announcement of Kodachrome's death, I think there should be a huge effort on kodak/fuji's part to put more exposure (ha) on film. My God, How awesome would that be!?!
I mean commercials on tv about film, fillm ads in places they normally would be. Workshops, events, classes.....ANYTHING that would reinsert film back into mainstream society... That would be pure Nirvana for me...
It would certainly revive the analog market. Maybe even create news jobs...Maybe bring about the second coming of Kodachrome (yes, more Jesus rips...)
bah..I'm rambling
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Super 8 Kodachrome stopped a few years ago right?
Well said.
What would you do with that brick, B + W processing?
Guess where I'm going tomorrow morning.
he he. I'll wait for pay day next Monday and pop back in on my way home, see if you left me any ;)
Are you using that time machine again??
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