RIP Kodachrome 1935-2009

Eastman Kodak Co., the photography pioneer whose Kodachrome film inspired Paul Simon's 1973 hit of the same name, said it will retire the 74-year-old product this year after sales dwindled and most labs stopped processing it......
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kodak-film23-2009jun23,0,247186.story

Digital killed the film star.
Sad. This pulls my nostalgia strings pretty hard.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hSXKjHDKkY

Mutability

From low to high doth dissolution climb,
And sink from high to low, along a scale
Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;
A musical but melancholy chime,
Which they can hear who meddle not with crime,
Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care.
Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear
The longest date do melt like frosty rime,
That in the morning whitened hill and plain
And is no more; drop like the tower sublime
Of yesterday, which royally did wear
His crown of weeds, but could not even sustain
Some casual shout that broke the silent air,
Or the unimaginable touch of Time.

William Wordsworth

my Canon F1 has been wearing its black lens cap all day..........

Yes, this is truly the end of an era. There was never a better way to capture images.

What great film.

Shit.

What next.

They gonna kill T-Max???

Don't people understand how better film is than digital?

Only a very few do, that's the problem, Convenience (and economy) trumps quality . . . . . always.