Kodak retires Kodachrome
23Jun09
Eastman Kodak is retiring its Kodachrome color slide film after 74 years. I used to photograph mostly with slide film, including Kodachrome 64, and this news kind of saddens me. Yes, progress is unavoidable and often great, but loosing things that were of historic significance is sad too. See here a story and gallery at the Lens photoblog of New York Times.
Photograph by Wouter Brandsma
Filed under: 2009, Photography | 6 Comments
Tags: 74 year, end, Kodachrome, Kodak, retire, slide, slide film
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Whoa I love this photo–it’s gorgeous. Who wouldn’t die to walk around there on a hot day?
Thank you. Bryce Canyon is such a beautiful place.
Another sad news. After browsing through the photos here ( http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=15398&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=4599 ), I believe many people would miss the film even more.
Beautiful work, Wouter!
Thank you Mike.
Bad move from Kodak. Another bad move in a long line of bad moves. Just give your (diminished but) existing clients to Fujifilm. Short sighted considering Kodak don’t have any quality digital products. Then again, Kodak have never been synonymous with quality anyway. I find it incredible that people are willing to sacrifice quality for sheer convenience. I guess it is a product of the ‘disposible’ and ‘instant gratification’ society in which we now live. I have always been a Fujifilm user anyway (mainly negative film but also Velvia) and not that much of a Kodak fan but this is bad. Kodak and many others will live to regret.
Nice pic, and you didn’t get the urge to write any 3D modelling softeware? LOL.
Like you, I have been mostly shooting Fujifilm too. Only in 1994 I have been using Kodachrome 64 for a while. For the rest Sensia, Provia and Velvia.
There is no 3D modelling software that can beat Bryce Canyon Chris
Awesome place.