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Snowflake
06-22-2009, 08:09 AM
Eastman Kodak is retiring Kodachrome film. The final roll of film will be shot by Steve MCCurry.

Photojournalist Steve McCurry's widely recognized portrait of an Afghan refugee girl, shot on Kodachrome, appeared on the cover of National Geographic in 1985. At Kodak's request, McCurry will shoot one of the last rolls of Kodachrome film and donate the images to the George Eastman House museum, which honors the company's founder, in Rochester.

For McCurry, who after 25 years with Kodachrome moved on to digital photography and other films in the last few years, the project will close out an era.

"I want to take (the last roll) with me and somehow make every frame count ... just as a way to honor the memory and always be able to look back with fond memories at how it capped and ended my shooting Kodachrome," McCurry said last week from Singapore, where he has an exhibition at the Asian Civilizations Museum.

Kodak has some awesome shots (http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/6868&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=7816) on display on their website and a slideshow of 43 pics is here (http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=15398&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=8539).

The full news story is here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_bi_ge/us_kodachrome_s_demise)

The end of an era, I'm not sad, I wasted a lot of kodachrome taking lousy shots.

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the worlds a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama dont take my kodachrome away
JWBear
06-22-2009, 08:35 AM
An end of an era, indeed. It makes me sad for some reason.
Snowflake
06-22-2009, 08:37 AM
An end of an era, indeed. It makes me sad for some reason.


I feel a tad nostalgic. But I can't remember the last time I had a roll of film developed.
Tref
06-22-2009, 09:57 AM
They say in less then ten years film will be so obscure that when somebody hears the Duran Duran song, 'Girls on Film', they'll say, "Why am I listening to Duran Duran?"

Two minutes later, indeed.
Morrigoon
06-22-2009, 02:03 PM
Dude... if I knew where my film camera was, it would make me wanna run out and shoot a last roll of the stuff, just because.
Cadaverous Pallor
06-22-2009, 07:38 PM
Wow. When GD graduated college, he got the gift of our first digital brick camera. I was in awe of the 1 inch screen on the back.

That was only 8 years ago. And now Kodak film is dead. Unbelievable.
CoasterMatt
06-22-2009, 07:40 PM
What does Paul Simon have to say on the subject?
Moonliner
06-22-2009, 07:55 PM
What does Paul Simon have to say on the subject?


No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
...
I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again


Or words to that effect...
flippyshark
06-22-2009, 08:48 PM
I have ten rolls of unshot Kodachrome Super 8 mm film in my closet. About six years ago, I shot a (really awful) film in that format, and had to have it processed at Dwayne's, the only lab left in the world that can process it. I guess I should do something with the rest of it. (It's expired, so I don't know what kind of results I'll get.)
Frikitiki
06-23-2009, 01:16 AM
I have a ton of pictures at my parents house but with digital photography it's SOOOOOOO much cheaper. Went to Paris last year and took 1500+ pictures. Couldn't do that with film.
Morrigoon
06-23-2009, 01:19 AM
Yes you can :evil:

(Okay, I lie... I only took 23 rolls of pics)
Stan4dSteph
06-23-2009, 07:27 AM
I have ten rolls of unshot Kodachrome Super 8 mm film in my closet. About six years ago, I shot a (really awful) film in that format, and had to have it processed at Dwayne's, the only lab left in the world that can process it. I guess I should do something with the rest of it. (It's expired, so I don't know what kind of results I'll get.)You should store it in the refrigerator, it will last longer.

I grew up in the company town, and my dad worked for Kodak his whole career. It's kind of sad to think of film going away. I still love the smell of a darkroom.
Kevy Baby
06-23-2009, 04:43 PM
This is all very frustrating for me as it just keeps reminding me that I cannot locate my damned Paul Simon Greatest Hits CD and I really have a hankering to listen to it (I first discovered it was missing when I was RIPing my CDs into iTunes).