Kodak No Longer Making Kodachrome Film
Thursday July 9, 2009
Kodak recently announced plans to stop manufacturing its classic film stock, Kodachrome.
Kodak, which was one of the world's leading film manufacturers for decades, has made Kodachrome film for almost 75 years. Kodachrome was the first commercially successful color film, but photographers who still use film have switched to newer types of film.
Kodak says it expects the final rolls of Kodachrome, which appears in slide or transparency film (rather than color negative film), to all be sold by the fall of 2009.
Obviously, such a move by Kodak signals further tough times for the film camera market.
Comments
It is the end of an era.
Its sad, really, but fewer and fewer people even know how to use this film, and many wonder what slides even are!
I couldn t count how many rolls I ve used…thanks mama for all the sunny days (oh yeah