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Kodachrome no more
Chris Large, Photographer
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Okotoks | AB | Canada | Posted: 2:20 AM on 12.30.10 |
->> The last lab to process Kodachrome has shut down. For me and a few other old farts that actually remember "film", this is a sad moment. When I started everything was shot on "chrome".....not much exposure latitude and K64 didn't give much choice but to shoot wide open unless you were in bright sun.
Definitely the end of an era......
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html?_r=1&hp |
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Philip Johnson, Photographer
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Garland | TX | USA | Posted: 3:00 AM on 12.30.10 |
| ->> Interesting BWC still lists E-6 processing services. |
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Baron Sekiya, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Hilo | HI | USA | Posted: 3:26 AM on 12.30.10 |
->> Ah yes, the first concert I ever photographed was on Kodachrome. I had finally learned what depth-of-field and aperture were but unfortunately I should have used a higher shutter speed as I was kinda dumb.
Nancy Wilson, rocker of Heart fame, in 1979. She was pretty young then.
http://www.mediabaron.com/blog/2010/01/19/im-a-dog-shes-a-butterfly/ |
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Bob Ford, Photographer
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Lehighton | Pa | USA | Posted: 8:51 AM on 12.30.10 |
| ->> Philip, E-6 is a simple process compared to the K-14 process needed for Kodachrome. I'm sure there are still plenty of labs that will continue to offer E-6 processing. |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 10:04 AM on 12.30.10 |
| ->> Got my (first &) last two rolls to FedEx last night - had hoped to make the drive there from Missouri with a friend, but life gets in the way. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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->> Phillip,
Kodachrome isn't E-6. E-6 is an entirely different process for developing chrome. |
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Kent Miller, Photographer
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Philip Johnson, Photographer
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Garland | TX | USA | Posted: 11:51 AM on 12.30.10 |
| ->> Thanks for letting me know about the difference in the processing. I had done some internet search about the E-6 processing before posting and while it never said Kodachrome it talked about other chrome films. I didn't realize different slide films had different processing. |
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Jonathan Roberts, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 12:01 PM on 12.30.10 |
->> Kent,
The CBS segment is currently on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPvF1MOU2kE
It was nice to see your member updates from the images you made during the interview.
Nice job and good work. |
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Kent Miller, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 12:54 PM on 12.30.10 |
->> Thanks Jonathan,
I don't even have a copy right now.
K |
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N. Scott Trimble, Photographer
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Lake Oswego | OR | USA | Posted: 1:20 PM on 12.30.10 |
->> Kodochrome took me from an Aerospace engineerimg major to a photojournalist when my granddad took my to Southeast Asia and changed my life.
Damn you Kodachrome... |
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Kent Miller, Photographer
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Tom Ewart, Photographer
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Bentonville | AR | USA | Posted: 1:21 AM on 12.31.10 |
| ->> Made the pilgrimage to Dwayne's Photo this morning to see the last rolls of Kodachrome being turned in at the lab and got a quick tour of the place, they have gotten so many rolls that the final rolls being processed may actually not be finished until early next week, they have gotten swamped with several thousand rolls from all over the world. There as even a group from Belgium who turned in several rolls of film about 11:45 AM or so. Henry Wilhelm of Wilhelm Imaging Research was even at the lab doing some coverage of the event. Got some nice photos and of course a few T-Shirts... |
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D. Ross Cameron, Photographer
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Oakland | CA | USA | Posted: 2:30 AM on 12.31.10 |
->> Incredibly sad day, the end of an era. Some of my very favorite pictures, both by others and of my own, were shot on Kodachrome film.
I certainly have gone through thousands of rolls of the stuff, and though it was completely unforgiving of under- or overexposure, nothing sang like a perfectly exposed frame of PKR.
Twenty years ago, I used to take mine to New York Film Works on Broadway at 21st Street in NYC, where they would process it in two hours. My last two rolls were processed at Dwayne's last year, photos of Big Sur, Calif. I should post a couple for y'all to see, but I'm too depressed right now.
RIP, Kodachrome.
K-14ishly,
DRC |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 2:30 AM on 12.31.10 |
->> Thanks for sharing Tom,
My adventure to FedEx was not as cool, but at least I know mine was one of the 500 packages received today...
http://www.patrickfallonphoto.com/2010/12/30/kodachrome/
Anyone know if they will be doing tours and stuff this weekend? |
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Kent Nishimura, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Honolulu | HI | USA | Posted: 3:00 AM on 12.31.10 |
| ->> hopefully my package was one of the 500 that was received. afterall...living in hawaii...you have to add an extra day to shipping...whoa! |
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Jim Comeau, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 3:55 AM on 12.31.10 |
| ->> Some of the best sports photos I've ever seen were Kodachrome 25 shot by the Z Man in San Francisco. |
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G.M. Andrews, Photographer
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Mobile | AL | USA | Posted: 4:12 AM on 01.01.11 |
->> Hope my two rolls of K-200 made the deadline.
Don't have the foggiest idea of what the images might be on the film. Might be from a vacation a few years back. Won't know until I get the chromes back.
Now if I could have just got that one roll of Kodachrome 120 souped... |
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Michael Fischer, Photographer
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Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 8:16 PM on 01.01.11 |
->> E-6 was for Ektachrome, K22 for Kodachrome. If you shot the same scene with both films, you'd understand why we used to call Ektachome YEECHTACHROME.
Greens on Kodachrome.... totally outrageous.
RIP Kodachrome. |
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