[Second Amendment First]

I guess I can throw out the old roll in my Pentax 35mm camera now. I do miss the plastic film cans; they were great for keeping my tied flies in. Of course they used to be metal, but that was many years ago.

[Erasmus]

A couple months ago I sent them a roll of K64 from an old Argus I found on eBay, having no idea what might be on it.

Sadly, they sent it back saying it was too damaged, presumably through age, to process. I suspect that some of the sprocket holes were torn out.

Maybe I should send it to a cryogenic storage facility (alog with my head).

[P.O.E.]

There’s tons of stuff on virtually unplayable media. Video from the 50’s, 8-tracks, 5 1/4” floppies, punch cards, etc.

Danger of digital is it could all go bye-bye with a flip of the switch, or the censor’s keystroke.

[razorback-bert]

I don’t have an Kodachome film, but do have a half dozen mailers in an old camera bag.

[GoodDay]

Poignant story.

Not sure that Kodachrome was the “first successful” color film, as I think color negative had already appeared. Kodachrome — like all “chrome” films — was reversal film: the negative that comes out of the camera is chemically processed to become a high-contrast positive print. The main difference between Kodachrome and other reversal films was that the color dyes — volatile and very sensitive to temperature — were kept separate from the film itself, in the processing lab, where they could be carefully temperature controlled. That’s why the colors in Kodachrome were always so saturated and brilliant.

Color negative film yields a far less brilliant print, but the advantage was that you had a template — the negative — from which you could continue to make a number of prints before wearing out the negative completely. However, in terms of industry standards, pretty much all “high end” photography — commercial table-top photography, fashion photography, etc. — were all shot with Kodachrome. Low-end shoots whose clients would want to make multiple copies — weddings, birthdays, actor headshots, etc. — were usually shot with negative.

Wow! Digital photography and image manipulation applications like Photoshop have changed everything!

[NonValueAdded]

Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You 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

Aw, maaaaaaa. Why'dja do that?

lyrics by Paul Simon

[Osage Orange]

I've a Nikon FM black 35 mm...camera..that I paid something like $400 bucks for in the late 70's..early 80's.

It's worth about $35..now, if that! Ha!!

I burnt a lot of film thru that baby...Always clicked when you pressed the button.

Digital so much easier....but I'm gonna miss KodaChrome 64

[Captain Peter Blood]

They did not say 35mm film only the kodak Slide Film. 35mm can still be processed.