Kodachrome is dead. Long live Kodachrome.

[veeten]

Kodak is retiring it's premiere film, due to declining sales and the rise of digital photography.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hNE3DMbUR1JFgMdyf_i5s4aDM9rQD98VMDJO0

[schmenke]

Expect the market price of silver to drop...

[Mark]

Hardly news really. Who is going to buy a 36exposure film for £5 plus when you can have a memory card capable of storing over 1000 pictures for the same price?!

[Eki]

I once visited George Eastman's home in Rochester NY, which is now a museum of photography. We asked if Kodak was a business partner of Eastman, since the company's name was Eastman Kodak, but the guide answered that he just named the company Kodak, because he liked the letter K.

[Daniel]

Sad day. Film is good. If I could afford it I'd still have a film camera alongside my digital one.

[Mark in Oshawa]

There is something special about taking pictures with film and manipulating light through apetures and shutter speeds to get different effects. Photography was an art.....now I am not so sure.

[Daniel]

There is something special about taking pictures with film and manipulating light through apetures and shutter speeds to get different effects. Photography was an art.....now I am not so sure.
Agreed. Now for most people it's just point and shoot, because of this people now make even less of an effort to compose photos and generally they look rubbish.

[race aficionado]

There is something special about taking pictures with film and manipulating light through apetures and shutter speeds to get different effects. Photography was an art.....now I am not so sure.

True, true.

One of my treats in life was taking a photography class and living the dark room experience.

I'm not sure what damage those fumes have caused :cool: but all that manipulation Mark mentions on the camera and in the dark room was true alchemy.

I also love Paul Simon's song :D
:s mokin:

[AAReagles]

There is something special about taking pictures with film and manipulating light through apetures and shutter speeds to get different effects. Photography was an art.....now I am not so sure.
:up: Indeed.

I never fused with it much when I was really into photography years ago, as the film was expensive to begin with, let alone forking out extra cash just to get prints made from the slides.

Photography, like F1 I suppose, seems to have slipped into the abyss of technology, subsequently having an effect on hindering the potential exposures of hidden talent.

[rah]

I am a die hard digital guy at the moment but I am just about to step into a dark room again after 15 years. Yes digital photography is easier and cheaper, but not better.

There is no digital format at the moment that can get as good as a large format film. Medium format is there but not large.

Despite lots of different programs to do it, digital does not do BW better than film in any format.

No digital format gives you the same feeling as watching your images apear on the paper when processing.

Kodak might stop making Kodachrome, but there are still other manufacturers that are making film. It will just be more of a specialist medium.