1. 5x4 inch Kodachrome transparencies /me squeals with excitement

    5x4 inch Kodachrome transparencies

    /me squeals with excitement

    (Source: pavelkosenko.com)

    2. 3 weeks ago  Notes (9)

  2. It’s official, Kodak’s on the way out

    …”To all intents and purposes it is the end of the “Kodak moment”. More than 130 years after a “not especially gifted” high school dropout, George Eastman, founded the camera company that dominated photography for most of the 20th century, Kodak Eastman filed for bankruptcy protection in the US on Thursday.

    The company which once sold 90 per cent of the film used in the US and made a type of film - Kodachrome - so beloved by amateur and professional photographers that Paul Simon wrote a hit song about it, finally succumbed to the digital revolution which left its products obsolete after years of ferocious competition from more light-footed rivals in the Far East.

    …Robert Burley, professor of photography at Ryerson University in Toronto, said: “Kodak has been obliterated by the creative destruction of a digital age. Like many of its competitors, it appears unable to make the transition into the 21st century. Five years ago, it was unthinkable that this American business legend would find itself in a bankruptcy position. Kodak was caught in a perfect storm of not only technological, but also social and economic change.”

    Best stock up on my Kodak EKtar 100 film then eh?

    (Source: theage.com.au)

    3. 4 months ago  Notes (8)
  3. One from the archives, circa 1986, using the legendary Kodachrome.

    One from the archives, circa 1986, using the legendary Kodachrome.

    4. 1 year ago  Notes (1)

  4. Farewell PKM

    scans to follow

    5. 1 year ago  Notes (1)
  5. This has been buried in my freezer since, some time before 1993, [the year of its expiry date], and I got it when processing for this film was long dead in Australia. Is this the last roll of Kodachrome in Australia, or perhaps the world, and what do I do with it now?

    This has been buried in my freezer since, some time before 1993, [the year of its expiry date], and I got it when processing for this film was long dead in Australia.

    Is this the last roll of Kodachrome in Australia, or perhaps the world, and what do I do with it now?

    6. 1 year ago  Notes (0)