Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A few years ago at the LHSA conference in Rochester, I asked a Kodak representative why Kodachrome was still around, considering the rapid decline in its popularity. He said that nobody at Kodak wanted to be known as the person who killed Kodachrome. My guess is that the financial reality of keeping a moribund film alive eventually outweighed sentiment. Jim Shulman Wynnewood, PA Who still has three rolls left. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Sonny Carter Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:41 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] More on "last roll of Kodachrome" On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>wrote: > we are bemoaning the lost of a great film :-( > It is a great film, and I have lots of Kodachrome slides from when I was a teenager in Europe (1960) that seem as bright and colorful as the day they came back to me in the mailer a couple weeks after I sent them out. That was always the problem. Timeliness of processing. Unless you were living near a lab, Kodachrome was not a film you could keep loaded in your money camera. Enter Ektachrome. A little blue at first, but gets the job done, and with processing anyone could do. Enter Fujichrome. Wow-o-wow colors Enter C41 Mini labs, especially Fuji Frontier. 1 hour or less! Kodachrome goes to the camera store's refrigerator bottom shelf, Enter Digital, right now! *"They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So Mama don't take my Kodachrome away" * -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information