I still have those ‘one time use’ cameras & I have photos in them that need developing.
Are you telling me that I now cannot get them developed???
Please advise. IMMEDIATELY!!
No, those are a different kind of film than Kodachrome (which is slide film, process K-14), the disposables are loaded with color PRINT film (negatives, process C-41).
It's only one type of SLIDE film, Kodachrome, that we will no longer be able to get developed. And the other types of slide films, Ektachrome and all the other process E-6 films will still have developing available. Just no more K-14.
But you SHOULD get your C-41 print/negative film stuff developed soon, it does deteriorate and color shift with age when shot and not developed. About three years ago, I found several rolls of print film that had sat in a box undeveloped for over seventeen years. Upon processing, they were DRASTICALLY grainier and fuzzier than they would have been if I'd had them developed promptly. (It WAS worth developing them, despite the degraded images, in case you're wondering.)
I have just spent every spare moment of the last 5-6 weeks digging through uncounted boxes of my stuff in storage, looking for any undeveloped rolls of Kodachrome I might have. I finally quit last night when it was too late to make the final Fed Ex shipment to Dwaynes. I found around two dozen scattered rolls of unprocessed print film (including, to my horror, the only roll I shot of Halley's Comet in 1986! Shot on Kodacolor 1000, notorious even back then for fogging if left undeveloped beyond its expiration date--wonder if there's even any point 24 years later?), but no Kodachrome... but I STRONGLY suspect that several rolls I shot of a couple of bands back in 1990 WERE on Kodachrome. The rolls from those gigs never turned up during my search, some day they WILL surface, and there will be no way to get them developed. Lost forever...
RIP, Kodachrome, you were THE reference point for everything photographic....