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Author Topic: Kodak To Stop Making Kodachrome ( ! ) Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 06-27-2009 10:13 AM                     Recently saw some Kodachrome slides shot in the '30's. Still looks like they were shot yesterday. Will they continue to make Ektachrome, since its developing process is quite simple?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-27-2009 11:54 AM                     Jeff, I don't see any future for film to speak of except revival showings on some quaint old dusty equipment down the road. Technology is moving all too quickly to ensure that it doesn't last for ever. Kodak should have sold the process to the Chineese so it could live on for at least another while... but I bet that Kodak was loosing money making it even once a year. Mark  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-27-2009 12:14 PM                        One thing digital can't duplicate is, you can't hold a CD or a hard drive up to the light and see what picture you've got!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-28-2009 05:38 PM                     quote: One thing digital can't duplicate is, you can't hold a CD or a hard drive up to the light and see what picture you've got! No, but you can look at a shit load of thumbnails on one screen and if a few happen to be upside down or backwords you just click a button to fix it you don't have to risk touching the original...  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 06-28-2009 06:32 PM                     quote: One thing digital can't duplicate is, you can't hold a CD or a hard drive up to the light and see what picture you've got! [Big Grin] This is actually an important point; many historically important films have been found in unexpected places. Even if it's in a format that's been dead for a hundred years you can at least look at it, and see what you've got, and if it's something important then you might be able to persuade somebody to put up the money to preserve and copy it. Even if it is in a strange format, making a gate with registration pins, and manually re-photographing it frame by frame isn't too difficult. With some long-obsolete digital media, holding files in some long-obsolete format it may well be possible to construct equipment to read it if the original no longer exists, though not as easy as it is with film, but you would have to do this, and find the money to do it, just to find out what's on the media, and whether it's restorable. You would have to spend the money just to find out that the content is unreadable, or of no interest, or already exists in a better form elsewhere. People who find old reels of film often offer them to archives; people in future who find old digital media, and have no idea what's on them, are more likely to throw them away.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 12-29-2010 03:49 PM                 It has been 548 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-29-2010 03:49 PM                     Tomorrow is the last day Dwayne's is accepting Kodachrome for processing. It has to be in by 12 noon. There was a great segment about it on CBS Sunday Morning. The only thing I found wrong was when they said that Steve McCurry took the follow-up photo of the Afghan woman in Kodachrome. According to another video on YT (ironically entitled, "Change is Good") he said that the original was taken in Kodachrome, but the follow-up was shot with Ektrachrome. Other than that, a well-done segment.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-30-2010 07:04 PM                     RIP Kodachrome...probably the best film ever on so many points. Talk about a product that must have had some sort of divine intervention. Oddly enough, I don't think anything out there today, digital or film can compare to it when it comes to the final product and just how long it will last. This is (or should be) a very sad day...how much of the world has been recorded on Kodachrome and there really isn't a worthy successor to it. -Steve  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-30-2010 08:22 PM                        My last roll arrived at Dwayne's on 12/29 (per Fedex). I suspect that they are probably swamped this week with last-minute orders from people like me. Their turnaround time is usually about a week, but I would not be surprised if it took at least 2-3x that long for this order.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-30-2010 09:38 PM                        In honor of Kodachrome, I offer this Kodachrome shot taken by my dad in the early 1960s on the Yellowstone River at Forsyth, MT.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-30-2010 09:48 PM                        Good idea, Mike. Here is a Kodachrome shot of my grandmother. I took this one in October of 2010; it was processed at Dwayne's. I don't know why she is laughing. She just turned 90 this week! At the party, I showed a bunch of old family slides, many of which were Kodachromes.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-01-2011 10:38 PM                     Hitler gets the news  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-01-2011 11:25 PM                     Mark, the Chinese may be working on it. I sold a few rolls of Kodachrome 25 earlier last year to someone in China, and heard the same story from someone else. SOMETHING is going on... And I apologize if this has been posted elsewhere, but this has been making the rounds on the interwebs, and it's worth including these stunning Kodachrome images of America, 1939-1943 in this thread. The film captured history. Now it is history.  |  IP: Logged

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