Friday, July 23, 2010

Kodachrome, R. I. P.

Death of Film: Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: "What do you know about Dwayne’s Photo Service of Parsons, Kansas? It is the place where the very last roll of the Kodachrome was processed.

Kodachrome, the slide-film that inspired songs, was discontinued by Kodak last year at 74 years of age. The color emulsion was a victim of its own weird processing requirements, which didn’t use the usual E6 chemistry designed for transparency film, and therefore wasn’t worth supporting in the age of digital.

The last roll was shot by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry, who shot the 36 exposures in New York (actually, the last three shots were exposed in Parsons before dropping off the film at Dwayne’s). The pictures will be part of a National Geographic piece in the near future."

Link via Boing Boing.

1 comment:

Benjie said...

But . . . "They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day"