Very sad, especially as I understand they made the worlds first digital camera in 1975 (VGA monochrome I believe)? In 2004 its shares were $30 each, they've just been suspended at 36c each! As far as the bosses were concerned digital would never catch on. I can understand their sentiments considering how much it must have cost to make that first camera. Wouldn't it be fun to go back in time and put a D4 on the boardroom table!

Kodak made my first camera, a brownie 127 and over 50 years later, I still have it

So thank you Kodak, that Camera changed my life

It's just chap 11. Not really the same as out of business.

They have a huge, very profitable chemical division and a few others that do really well that they have or are spinning off and letting the debt hit some of their most unprofitable divisions. Standard business practice in that regards. Their end has not been written yet - but who knows how many chapters are left.

Kodak just filed for bankruptcy.

Pretty sad stuff, but hey, they had it coming. Other than their film, I don't really buy any other products made by them, and even then I've only bought three rolls of ultramax 400 for just around the house shooting.

I shot Kodachrome 25 (image that and ASA or ISO of only 25!) extensively back in the 1960s. It was the sharpest and strongest color slide film you could get in 35mm back then.

I know Dwayne's stopped developing it in December, it just took me a couple months to post them on my website. :)

You can't develop Kodachrome in E-6 or cross-process it in C-41. Kodachrome is basically a B&W film where color was added in the K-14 process. You can still develop it as a B&W film but it's not an easy process. You have to treat the negative very differently than traditional B&W film. Very easy to ruin your film otherwise.

I think it's pointless to develop it as B&W. The whole point of shooting K64 was for the colors!

I have seen a lot of developed kodachrome in various processes on Flicker. It is an Artistic take on it for sure.

I wonder what you would get running kodachrome film through an E-6 process?

Kodachrome processing ended back in December 2010 from Dwaynes. No one in the world can process the kodachrome any more unless you just develop it as black & white film in basic chemicals

I heard that Dwayne's Photo was not going to be processing it anymore. I had recently got back into film and so I bought a few rolls on ebay and shot them using my nikon FE. I live in ann arbor and I went to detroit for a day and shot the "ruins". It was amazing, a dying city shot with a dying line of film :/

http://alessandrastudio.com/2011/04/kodachrome/

The camera didn't really have the correct ISO setting but I was surprised that they turned out halfway decent. Most of these were taken in a huge rush or from moving cars

I miss the noise of the cooling fan and the sound the rotating slides on those old carousels! It's the greatest memory I have of my Art Appreciation class. LOL! All my professor ever did was turn off the lights, turn on the projector and lecture for an hour the entire semester! What was funny was when he'd turn off the carousel and turn the lights back on everyone would suddenly wake back up and wipe the drool off their chins. LOL.

I got a slide projector for sell(jk). It's a Kodak Carousel, heck it has "auto focus". It makes the classic clunking sound when changing between slides, the cooling fan is rather loud though. Compared to a laptop showing a slide show it sounds like a gale(jk). Neat thing is you can make the images 14 feet wide plus add finger animals for fun. I also have 3 different generations of Polaroid cameras including a model 320(early 70's). Seems like better technology is always around the corner. There is a certain, ah "feel" for opening up a box of slides and holding them up to a light source and squinting to make out whats on it. iPad type tablets, laptops, desktop screens and electronic picture frames will be the norm until the tiny electronic projectors catch on, I suppose.

Just wondering, did Kodak ever publish the chemicals needed to process Kodachrome?

Technically, if they did, I guess you guys could experiment and see if you could reproduce the process.

I mean, it hasn't changed for 75 years, how hard could it be? :D

And just curious, how hard is it to get prints out of slide film? When I shoot it's easier to use print film with negatives, but I might want to try shooting slide film just for fun.

There use to be. They closed down many years ago. Parsons Kansas WAS the only place left in the entire world that still processed Kodachrome.

You can still process Kodachrome but only as a black & white film since the color was added during processing.

Wasn't there also a site in Europe handling K?

From NYT: Among the recent visitors was Steve McCurry, a photographer whose work has appeared for decades in National Geographic including his well-known cover portrait, shot in Kodachrome, of a Afghan girl that highlights what he describes as the “sublime quality” of the film. When Kodak stopped producing the film last year, the company gave him the last roll, which he hand-delivered to Parsons. “I wasn’t going to take any chances,” he explained.

My avatar is that picture. Back in 1991 I bought a brick(I think that's what they called it, 15 or 16 rolls) of Kodachrome to shoot on my round the USA road trip. Going the way of the 45RPM, Polaroid, VHS, Walkman. . .

http://kobrechannel.blogspot.com/2010/12/rip-kodachrome-1935-2010.html

CHOO-CHOO!

I'm pouring some beer on the ground for you Kodachrome. Farewell dear friend.

cross processing anybody? I was told that for the last several years the environmental agency fined Kodak every month for the chemicals used in the process of making and developing kodachrome. Both this and the decline of film (slide in particular)led to the stop of the manufacture of the film in 2009... The question is"Was a year enough time to shoot off those last rolls?"

Good post Broxibear... Sadly the big yellow mother did just that... :(

LOL!

I think I just figured out who NikoDoby is!

NYTimes just did a story on Kodachrome's last day. They interviewed people who traveled from all over the world to get their film developed:

"In the span of minutes this week, two such visitors arrived. The first was a railroad worker who had driven from Arkansas to pick up 1,580 rolls of film that he had just paid $15,798 to develop."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html?_r=1&hp

I can totally see Niko walking in there to pick up his film wearing engineer overalls and hat.

warprints said:
RIP Kodachrome.

+1

My best,

Mike

Thanks to BroxiBear for the UTube Kodachrome video!! I have never found a more stable film than Kodachrome 25 or 64. But the Nikon D700 or even a D300 will still be shared by digital today so that is why the great film and its processing went extinct. So Kodachrome is gone. Not a good day from that standpoint! But again thanks to Nikon Rumors for covering this monumental change.
Fuji Velvia or Fujichrome would be my recommendation for those still shooting this type of film.

NikoDoby said:
My 2nd day air package finally got delivered today. A week after I shipped it!

did you ups/fedex or USPS flat rate box it?

nevermind! ups. i forgot you said that.

I hope my USPS gets accepted. Its their P.O. Box