Have they stopped making Kodachrome? I still have a few rolls. The Kodak web
site still lists it, and bhphoto still lists it. I used to love it, until I
got hooked on the colours of E100VS.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 5:55 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: last four rolls of kodachrome and dead V700
> Used to be able to drop it off two miles from home on the way to work, or
> at least by one o'clock, and get it back the next morning. The more I dig
> through old slides, the more I'm missing Kodachrome.
>
> "When I think back on all the crap
> I learned in high school
> Its a wonder I can think at all
> And though my lack of education
> Hasn't hurt me none
> I can read the writing on the wall
>
> "Kodachrome -- 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, dont take my kodachrome away
>
> "If you took all the girls I knew
> When I was single
> And brought them all together for one night
> I know they'd never match
> My sweet imagination
> And everything looks worse in black and white"
>
> Thank you, Paul Simon. He must have seen the future.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Jeff Keller" <jeffreyrkeller@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I thought Kodak had a president du jour whose grand plan was to get
>> Kodak out of the "dying" film business and into digital. He made
>> significant progress on the first item but little on the second.
>>
>> Being able to drop off fujichrome at a nearby film developer while
>> needing to mail kodachrome to a distant developer surely accelerated
>> the demise of kodachrome. When Kodak had a plant (with a mail slot) 2
>> miles from my house, Kodak reigned.
>> -jeff
>>
>> On 1/8/07, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > swisspace wrote:
>> > > I have just received the last four rolls of Kodachrome I sent in to
>> > > be
>> > > developed, oh why did they stop this film,
>> > Kodak didn't kill it, the folks who stopped buying it in sufficient
>> > quantities "stopped" it. Kodak simply stopped making a film that wasn't
>> > selling in enough volume to produce it without losing money.
>> >
>> > I'm afraid I have to bear some infinitesimal part of the blame, but I
>> > share it with millions of others. :-)
>> >
>> > Moose
>>
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