[Leica] When did Kodachrome really die?

[lists at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary)]

Sonny,

I never really shot koadachrome that much.  In my news days it was all 
E-6 as we had several Wynglynch processors at the paper and we ran it as 
soon as we shot it.  Once I started shooting for the magazines I shot E6 
because of the ability to get it run in a few hours.  Sometime in the 
mid 90's while there was  a huge discussion on the list about how great 
Kodachrome was I decided to shoot some, had not shot it since college.  
Anyway the results were so bad I never shot it again.  The film came 
back all scratched with crap all over the slides.  Totally 
unacceptable.  I stuck with Velvia and shot around 100 rolls a month of 
that for the various magazines I was shooting for back then.


On 2/10/11 8:53 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:
> The huge recent flurry of publicity notwithstanding, I was wondering, how
> many LUG shooters were REALLY still regularly shooting Kodachrome?
>
> I really can't remember the last roll I shot.  It probably was in the
> 1970's, maybe earlier.
>
> When Primary Color opened in New Orleans and offered two Ektachrome runs a
> day, I kissed Kodachrome goodbye.
>
> I mentioned this before but it was buried in another thread.
>
> I'm just wondering, how long has it been since you shot the stuff, not
> counting this recent "drink the kool-aid" rush.
>