Very sad day for me and anyone who loved Kodachrome!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html?_r=1
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Very sad day for me and anyone who loved Kodachrome!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html?_r=1
I got a chuckle from this quote in the article.
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The artist, Aliceson Carter, 42, was incredulous as she watched the railroad worker, Jim DeNike, 53, loading a dozen boxes that contained nearly 50,000 slides into his old maroon Pontiac. He explained that every picture inside was of railroad trains and that he had borrowed money from his father’s retirement account to pay for developing them.
“That’s crazy to me,” Ms. Carter said. Then she snapped a picture of Mr. DeNike on one of her last rolls.
The whole thing is crazy. I have dozens of unused Kodachrome that I will likely ditch since they are likely bad. It had a very short usable shelf life anyway. I value photos just as much as anyone else, but, while Kodachrome was terrific, especially for perfect white balance :-) But my D2Xs was better when it came out and that was the last time I used my F6 ... which is a great film camera.
D3X files are much better than I have seen from a drum scan of a Kodachrome or any other slide for that matter. It is the way it is. I mean, no one gets PAINTED any more, I am sure paiters were up in arms when Kodachrome was introduced. I now paint in Photoshop... ha!