Kodak announced today that it will stop selling the film after 74 years on the market:
Sales of KODACHROME Film, which became the world's first commercially successful color film in 1935, have declined dramatically in recent years as photographers turned to newer KODAK Films or to the digital imaging technologies that Kodak pioneered. Today, KODACHROME Film represents just a fraction of one percent of Kodak's total sales of still-picture films...
As part of a tribute to KODACHROME Film, Kodak will donate the last rolls of the film to George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, which houses the world's largest collection of cameras and related artifacts.
Paul Simon is wrong about one thing though. Everything does NOT always look worse in black and white. I like some of my monochromatic shots, thank you.
Funny, I just got done writing an ode to Kodachrome on my blog too.
I started shooting it in my first 35mm camera, a used Argus C3, acquired for 20 hard-earned dollars back in 1972. I shot a ton of slides with that, and those Kodachrome transparencies still look brilliant after all those years.
Posted by: Kevin Brady at June 22, 2009 4:01 PM