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Eastman Kodak Co. may be ceasing production of its pioneering color film Kodachrome, devotees worriedly told the AP.
For decades, Kodachrome's uniquely vibrant colors made it the favorite medium of multitudinous still and video photographers, including amateur snapshot takers and National Geographic contributors alike. Since the '80s, the film's popularity has taken severe hits, one with the advent of affordable camcorders and another more recent hit with the explosive rise of digital photography. Still, many professional and art photographers hang on.
The most recently produced runs of Kodachrome film will expire in 2009, leaving Kodak little time to decide whether or not they will continue to produce it. As of yet, the company has not made public any decision.
While Kodachrome fans worry that their beloved will go the way of Polaroid, they will just have wait, cherishing the iconic images that made the film famous. [From: AP via Yahoo!]
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Subscribe to commentsAlSep 25th 2008 4:41PM
I do have a digital 35mm camera, but still love to take film pictures with my Nikon FM.
DavidSep 25th 2008 7:55PM
You may have a digital camera or you may have a 35mm camera. You cannot have a 35mm digital camera. 35mm is a film type.
John F.C. TaylorSep 25th 2008 5:28PM
I will give up on 35mm film cameras only when they stop producing film entirely. Why should film be the only product to go bye-bye? Kraft has stopped marketing Postum. A hot beverage, non-caffeine alternative to coffee.
Tom T. PippersonSep 25th 2008 7:45PM
What will become of "Rhymin' Simon's" mid-70's song? Give us those nice bright colors............
Show MeSep 25th 2008 11:06PM
That sucks big time. I have a PentaxPZ1P 35mm film. I love film, it makes for great enlargments. I don't have a digital yet. I take a lot of pics and I've sold some good photos and won some international contests with film. I don't want it to go away. I'm a real photographer, meaning I work to get the great picture on and in the camera. I don't take it and then go back to the computer and photo shop it. I'm a photographer, not a computer manipulator. There's a lot of difference, and I'm proud of the work I do!! Come on Kodak, don't bail on us now!! Please?!?!
JAMIESep 26th 2008 2:28AM
I have a Nikon F with an assortment of lenses I have used for decades and it takes fantastic pictures and I like to take slides and print the ones I like best. I do not have a digital camera, I guess they have their place but what worries me is with the ever increasing rate of change in the computer world what happens to your digital pictures if format or operating systems change or your hard drive dies, or you get a lightning strike near your house and it fries your computer, then all is lost if everything is stored on the computer. As it is now I can take a good print from a box 50 years from now and show it to someone, or flip through an album of old photos. I'm also not sure how good these home printers are and how long the prints from them will look good. Are film cameras about to go the way of say vinyl record albums?
MarkSep 26th 2008 10:43AM
Yes in the words of Paul Simon:
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 don't take my Kodachrome away