People are waxing lyrical about the demise of Kodachrome, but the fact is that
not enough of them were buying it when it was available to make it worthwhile
for Kodak to continue it.
Fortunately, there are lots of good choices in film, both B&W and color. I have
just bought myself a Fuji MF rangefinder and several bricks of 120 film.
Nathan
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On Dec 26, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
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>
> My Kodachrome, that is. I quite shooting that stuff when I got tired of
> Kodak/Qualex processing that rendered everything twenty points magenta.
> Still, there was a good story on CBS Sunday Morning today about the end. The
> again sent a crew to Parsons and have more film of the machine working and
> current manager Grant Steinle, son of Ewayne. Oddly this if the very first
> story I've seen local or national, that had an interview with Dwayne, I had
> assumed he was long since senile and unable but want a surprise, he's quite
> with it!
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> They are currently doing about 700 rolls a day, os still doing that as he
> said. There'a story there: There should be an upswing in rolls, as more are
> taken from t he freezer and shot as the end nears, so what were there before
> the announcement? That's 700 rolls WORLDWIDE! Not much, right?
>
> Maybe better processing would have helped. I remember the Dallas lab as
> particularly bad.
>
> Bill Pearce
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