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| Kodachrome going, going...gone; No demand for legendary film | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 22 2009, 03:28 PM (480 Views) | |
| Steve Wilson | Jun 22 2009, 03:28 PM Post #1 |
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After nearly 3/4 of a century, Kodachrome is going the way of daily newspapers...out to pasture. Kodachrome, the name of a 1973 Paul Simon hit with the same name "Don't take my Kodachrome away.." was the world's first commercially successful color film. According to the Associated Press, Kodachrome spent 74 years in Kodak's Portfolio and enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s and ‘60s. Sales of Kodachrome are now just a fraction of 1 percent of the company’s total sales of still-picture films, and only one commercial lab in the world still processes it. For more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/6491332.html |
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| Alton Lagan | Jun 23 2009, 04:18 PM Post #2 |
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It is sad, but understandable. Kodachrome used a very toxic and complex process to develop it. It was one of the few photographic processes that could never be done at home -- in fact, it would be far easier and probably even safer to develop a daguerreotype at home. (that is the old process that used fuming mercury vapor to develop an image on a polished silver plate) With the demise of Kodachrome and Polaroid film later this year, an age has certainly ended. |
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