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onehopper52Dec 30, 2010
Another art form lost!!
breakneckridgeDec 30, 2010
The art form here is photography, and that art form is more popular than ever. What has been retired here is a tool of the trade, not the art form. The art form of the written word didn't die when typewriters came out and replaced the inkwell pen, and it didn't die when word processors replaced the typewriter. When an old tool of the trade gets replaced, it's natural to feel nostalgic, but the whole reason why that tool is being replaced is because a better tool has come out and made the art form even better.
TL;DR it's natural to feel sad about kodachrome going away, but the art form itself is more health today than it's ever been.
arschgaudiDec 30, 2010
Shooting with Kodachrome was and remains an art form. Its easy to bang out a couple dozen photos today, selecting the one that's right and discrading the others. Shooting with film and more so with Kodachrome required time, skill, patience........something I'm sorely lacking.
I've happily embraced the digital age though.
wilf_brimDec 30, 2010
I understand that this is progress. I know (better than most) that Kodachrome was ungodly difficult to shoot well (unlike Ektachrome, which is still being made) and (as the article points out) was equally tricky to develop.
This was a victim of the digital revolution, and it was a price worth paying. Nonetheless, we have lost something. In the hands of somebody who really knew what they were about (granted, something rare) I don't think that anything still comes close to Kodachrome.
Closed AccountDec 30, 2010
I sent my last 4 rolls out on Monday.
Closed AccountDec 30, 2010
Obligatory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po
dedawDec 30, 2010
I wonder if pirate chemists will attempt to produce the chemicals needed to develop that stock.
arschgaudiDec 30, 2010
Since Kodak is no longer producing the film itself it would be a dwindling market.
firesphotonsDec 31, 2010
Kodak once occupied a 13 mile industrial park with a fire department on each end, both company owned and operated. Now Kodak park is just a hodgepodge of torn down buildings and scrap itself. A company in the pantheon of American companies done in trying to over milk the cash cow. In a ship to ship communication technology, EK discovered the crystal which makes digital imaging possible, a crystal with phosphorescence as a key property. Instead of developing said technology, they sat on it till the patent expired at which time Fuji promptly used it and beat EK to death with it.
firesphotonsDec 31, 2010
that should be "3" miles
arschgaudiDec 31, 2010
Having lived in Rochester for several years during the hey-day of Kodak and Xerox, there is a lot of mythos regarding the companies, what they did and didn't do.
Kodak failed to capitalize on the shift to digital. They were the first to market with a commercially viable digital camera, the DCS. But they were a dinosaur, entrenched in old style management.
dedawDec 31, 2010
There is still a lot of stock sitting in the refrigerators of photogs around the world. I can't believe that no one will capitalize on that market, however small it may be. And I still think there could be a market for Kodachrome for artists. Once every few years the fire up the production line to make the chemical for processing and make a limited quantity of the stock. Hey, McDonald's keeps bringing the McRib back "for a limited time only."
arschgaudiDec 31, 2010
Why would a photographer sit on a horde of Kodachrome knowing it had a finite future?
dedawDec 31, 2010
Personal preference, nostalgia, speculative investment?
onehopper52Dec 31, 2010
I also use digital cameras, but I still have my Canon AE-1 that I use to shoot film with!
applefansrtoolsDec 31, 2010
A store is closing and someone exaggerated a whole page about it.
swineDec 31, 2010
the best film ever made! The exposure range of the Kodachrome was second to none. Getting it developed (especially when you lived in the kootenays, always a challenge. Going to miss it
donnyDec 31, 2010
if you want a wide latitude you should be using negative film or just shoot hdr photos. :P
itsjustjenDec 31, 2010
My work is done. why wait?
carldubDec 31, 2010
Changes, changes, changes.
donnyDec 31, 2010
This is great! Kodachrome uses mercury when processing in a machine. If you can't take a good picture with a digital camera, using out dated film isn't going to help. Maybe you just need a hipstomatic app for your iphone.
donnyDec 31, 2010
Polaroid is Next! oh wait.
adogg4629Jan 1, 2011
the march of progress...
chordonblueJan 3, 2011
Sad, really... And the end of an era indeed!