A True End Of An Era: Kodak Discontinues Kodachrome

I sure hope film photography isn't completely on its way out eventually

Mike you are freaking me out there with that pic of M.J. as your Avatar...

FREAKY & A TAD BIT SCARY!!!


I much prefer Your pic as to that one!!

Just sayin!!!

It's still not the same MYKL---one of the reasons Kodachrome was the slide film of choice was due to the "fine grain" features...the lower the ASA/ISO of the film, ike Kodachrome 25 and 64, the smaller the grain...uh, think of it as pixels..that meant one could enlarge a photo from that slide to gigantic size and the "grain" wouldn't be noticed..Kodachrome was also the choice slide for publishers of magazines

PS--I have used other types of slide film and the color just isn't the same as Kodachrome

Kodachrome is only one of many films that Kodak produces; at this time, there are no plans to totally stop producing film.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/films/catalog/kodachrome64ProfessionalFilmPKR.jhtml

I sure hope ALL photographic film isn't eventually phased out....I happen to know several pro photographers that still prefer film photography over digital

LOL--I think anyone in the baby boomer age bracket like me have probably seen the most changes in our lives than any previous generation, don't you think? And can't help thinking all progress isn't necessarily "progress" And grrr...to digital TV---I don't have cable so have that converter box and antennae...what a nuisance! I got to keep rescanning to get channels and then monkey around with the antennae a zillion times

Yeah, in the long run, it comes down to profit. If it is not profitable, it is not something that they want to cotinue, but some stuff is better, or at least more convenient.
I, on the other hand, like to take many pictures but could not afford to develop the photo and many times it sat around never getting developed, or they would develop the entire roll and half of it was bad.
I like being able to delete bad photos, but I am not a photographer, just an every day photo clicker.
When we went to Italy last summer, between the four of us we took over eight thousand photos (we visited for a month). Some were doubles or similar shots but we took more than we normally could have and so have some wonderful shots that if we had only so many per roll, could not do.
Film is costly, we were limited on what we could carry on the planes and having to carry all those rolls and develop them, for us would have been insane. Each night, when we got back to our apartment, I would put them on the laptop, we would view them and take out the bad ones. So, we actually took more than eight thousand, if I think about it.
Plus we had the streaming video on the cameras. My cousin bought one for one hundred dollars that was three years newer than mine, a Kodak, and it took even better pictures than mine did.

Oooooooh... love that cerulean blue...

I know and that is my all time favorite color so I was just mesmerized by it.

I second that....I've never seen a body of water so clear and clean looking and yup--love that color

Wherever we went in Italy, the water was scrumptious!!

I just clicked on my picture so I could see it as you would and was very disappointed. It looks all grainy after mylot upload and resize. I wish there was a better way to show where the intense detail could be appreciated. I'm gonna try attaching it after I lod it to an online host and see if that is better.

http://i39.tinypic.com/kcxu36.jpg it's a little better but still not great.

To quote you: I can't seem to embrace the new as I once did and sometimes find myself longing for the old days.

Tsk, tsk...you sound like an old geezer

---know what you mean though and guess I could be considered an old fart (at 53)---so many things are no longer around...one of my all time favorite cars is no longer going to be made...the Pontiac but to be honest don't like the way cars look nowadays anyway...give me vintage cars from the 60s or 70s when cars looked like cars and not boxes on wheels


Nice photo..yikes do they make Kodak Gold film anymore either???

I know what you mean about "old" photos not looking as keen when digitized...when I scan my slides the color never comes out exactly no matter how many times I try to enhance it at Photoshop

Well.......I feel like an old geezer. Specially whe I have to yell at them young pups to turn that music down cause I can't hear myself think! LOL I think Nana said it best above wheb she pointed out the things we like are those we grew up with and are part of the fabric of our lives.

I have no idea what films are available anymore to be honest. I switched over to digital in 2002 because I hated waiting for a photo lab and didn't have a facility of my own.

I have some awseome photos I took all over Europe and Africa that I have been waiting to get a new scanner to upload. My old one HP T45 Office allinone is now outdated even though I bought it in 2002, they no longer make the cartridges for it available at walmart and it won't work with anything newer than windows Millenium as microsoft ensured we would have to buy new when they phased out the old! I'll let you know when I get them scanned and uploaded to the Den!

I have a i800 Microtek scanner that allows me to scan my slides and negatives...would love to upgrade to a Nikon CoolScan though thought they cost about $900

oops meant though they, not though thought they....sheesh

pye-look up harald heim's filters,he has some specifically for film "translation"
it's supposed to correct for film inconsistancies when scanned.

Actually scarlet_woman....my Photoshop does have "filters" to change the look and color tone, just like using color correction filters on a lens of a camera...still doesn't do the trick though...not exactly anyway

oops--as a PS---the filter plug-in downloads are for Windows...which I don't have since I have a Mac computer

aww..she beat me to it
that's the first thing i thought of when i saw this topic.
that's too bad..kodachrome did have unique color to it.