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

Any word if your going to get your prints in time?

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

Ah yes Broxibear, "Moma don't take my Kodachrome..."

Nice video.

Thanks for sharing with us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SExsuRIGAlg

RIP Kodachrome.

Oh no niko, No wedding photos. It was a personal project. Around november i decided to order 5 rolls of kodachrome and i just took personal pictures of friends family and such that i want to capture on kodachrome and keep forever. 1 roll was 24 portraits of 24 different people in same pose and such and was sort of a mini project to me. My mom,dad, friends,girlfriend, influences,instructors anyone who has influenced me and means somthing to me. Just all personal :). If sadly it doesnt get developed... ill just have to develop it as B&W but it kind of defeats the purpose of me doing it on kodachrome for COLOR slide film :P

Wow! An end of an era. I guess now I'll try shooting some Velvia, finally.

I saw that news story. They interviewed Dwayne himself. He said they've been processing 700 rolls of film A DAY! And they only have enough chemicals for a week's run! I plan to call to find out why my film hasn't been accepted for delivery. I'm hoping it was just because Dwayne's was closed a few days for Christmas and not because they are expecting to run out of chemicals before the deadline. I've heard other photogs say they sent their film in the first week of December and their photos still haven't been sent back to them.

Smarterchild I hope you didn't shoot someone's wedding with those rolls of Kodachrome!

According to CBS news' Sunday morning program at least, while you may have rolls in the line for processing, as Kodak stopped making chemicals a while ago, the implication was that once whatever chemicals are there get used up, that's it! OUCH!!

niko, this scares the crap out of me. I have some very important pictures on kodachome i had to send it. Im sending it in Monday through the USPS priority mail flat rate box. From what my parents say ( their experience with USPS) that it will be there tuesday or wednesday at the most.

Like alot of things in photography sometime the numbers dont tell the whole story.