Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The last time Kodak ran any kind of ad for Kodachrome was decades ago. Many. It was like they were embarrassed about the stuff and hoping it would go away on its own if nobody brought it up. It was only their number one key signature product. That's all. "a reason for owning a 35mm camera" According to many pro photographers one I worked for a master photographer from Holland. The only air time it ever got was Simon and Garfunkle. Whose name is not Carbuncle. Nor Arbuckle. Mark William Rabiner > From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:05:21 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] QUESTION????? Kodachrome RIP > > Doug is right on the ball here. > > The beginning of the end of Kodachrome was when really good E6 films > came along, long before we were all shooting digital. Most people > preferred the convenience of same day service to mailing it to some > distant processing lab. I stuck with it until 2003, but I was also > living in Switzerland the last 3 years, and the European processing > was done there, so the postal delays were bearable. > > Nathan