“They give us those nice bright colours.
They give us the greens of summers.
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day
So, mama don’t take my Kodachrome away.”
- Paul Simon -
Well Eastman Kodak has announced that after 74 years, production of Kodachrome, the film that made color photography what it is, is coming to an end. The end of an era? Certainly. But with the masses eschewing film for digital instant gratification (myself included) this hardly comes as a surprise.
I’m sure someone will come up with a “Kodachrome” plugin for Photoshop. Heck, maybe there already is one…
Anyway, take a few minutes to check out the slideshow that Kodak has posted to pay homage to the late, great Kodachrome. They are stunning images.
And then there was Kadochrome!!! says he whose first camera was a Box Brownie b&w film ….. whose first 35mm camera was a Taron (Japanese) purchased in Tokyo in the late 60s …. DIGITAL is GOOD …. so little storage space needed to keep all the discs and no developing/printing costs … DIGITAL is GOOD!!
Comment by Geoff Straker — June 23, 2009 @ 7:26 pm