Kodak Retires Kodachrome Film

[keithwms]

My condolences.

[dwdmguy]

No doubt best to leave this alone and contact David Lanzillo, 585-781-5481. And perhaps brush up on your legal degree.

[Steve Roberts]

Press releases exist for the purpose of quotation. Most corporate PR departments would be delighted if their press releases were published verbatim in their entirety. It is absurd to consider quotation of a press release a copyright violation.

I am in full agreement. In my organisation (University of Plymouth) we constantly strive to produce press releases that are difficult for the media to present out of context by quoting only in part. If only our PRs were always quoted in full (with or without quotation marks) our lives would be so much more straightforward. Let common sense prevail!

Steve

[mikebarger]

I shot a lot of it when I shot 35mm, but haven't shot 35mm more than one or two rolls a year in a long time.

Still, it's sad to see it go.

I shoot Tri-X in 120, I'm sure it will be around for some time.

Mike

[Akki14]

Have you tried FP-100 Fujifilm?

Doesn't work in my Sonar One-step SX-70 folding SLR camera, sorry. There is no direct replacement for 600 integral films.

[AlexG]

Rant about this copyright stuff elsewhere, please. Makes the thread much easeier to follow .

Anyways, I wonder when the last roll of kodachrome emulsion was coated?
Sad to see such an intersting film finally retire.

[rternbach]

Doesn't work in my Sonar One-step SX-70 folding SLR camera, sorry. There is no direct replacement for 600 integral films.

Nice camera, donated mine to a school several years ago. Held on to my Spectra SE though. Seems there's always hope left...

http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

[Michael W]

I'm glad that I've been around long enough to have been able to use some of the great emulsions when they were freely available; Agfa, Polaroid, now Kodachrome. I'd hate to be a young photographer starting out in a few years & hearing about all the great films that are no longer available.

[aldevo]

Ah well, when I've stocked up with my last Kodachrome, that's the end of my business with Kodak. Fuji for color, Ilford for B&W, still plenty of suppliers for photochemicals and d------l supplies. Who needs Kodak now?

I do.

[Uncle Bill]

While I shoot mostly black and white film, I have shot slide and Kodachrome and I mourn the loss of this historic film. That being said this day was going to come sooner or later. So for those still sitting on a few rolls, find the right project and make it count.

Now I do have to say in the same post I really like Ektar 100, I am happy that Kodak put the money in to develop it and the fact I can drop off a roll at any C-41 lab is a LOT more convienent than shipping Kodachrome to Dwanes which is expensive from Canada these days.