Goodbye Kodachrome!

[RussM]

I was saddened to hear that Kodak recently announced the end of an era... Kodachrome will no longer be produced in any form. After almost 75 years, I'd say it had a pretty good run.

Back when I was an avid shutterbug, Kodachrome 64 was my mainstay for color work.

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

[DaveMorris]

I was always an Ektachrome guy. I felt that you got better color and saturation out of slide film and I would get prints done at Photic which used to be over by the Sports Arena. Long gone, though.

[SDguy]

I heard that the last roll ever will be shot by the same photographer that took the world famous photo of that Afgani girl for that National Geographic magazine cover.

[RussM]

I used Ektachrome frequently too, mainly for open outdoor shots with lots of greens. And of course it was Ektachrome 400 for times when Kodachrome 64 or 200 wasn't fast enough. Ektachrome 400 could be push-processed with good results when shot at ISO 800, and acceptable results at 1000 or 1200. My dad was an Ektachrome fan too... he put a lot of it through his old WWII-era Exacta.

[DaveMorris]

Most of it that I used was by the foot in a Marron Carrol Animation camera shooting stuff for multi-image shows. I would spend most of the night shooting stuff, empty the exposed film into a can (usually about 40') and drop it off at Chrome for early morning processing.