My biggest regret now as an amateur photographer is that I never got to shoot Kodachrome, I didn’t shoot my first roll of slides until 2017 and I loved what I got, but I would have preferred the film stock in my camera to have been Kodachrome. I love that Kodak brought back Ektachrome and I immediately fell in love with its color pallet, but I’d give almost anything to be able to shoot Kodachrome and be able to have it processed in color. Like most things I like, I was born a decade or two too late.
I used Kodachrome II (ISO 25) in an old Leica IIIa in the 1960's and rejoiced when Kodachrome X (ISO 64) finally arrived. When the rangefinder Nikon S2 made way for a Canon SLR, then a Nikkormat FTn, I began using Ektachrome, especially High Speed Ektachrome (ISO 160) due to slow lenses and weak electronic flash units. In time, Orchid photography led to Kodachrome 25, and I did try Kodachrome 200, which didn't quite measure up to Ektachrome 200. A job change took me away from Kodachrome in general, and film photography in particular. When I could return to photography, slide film had been shunted aside by Kodacolor II and 400. Kodachrome has been gone for years, but it's like an old friend is dead and gone, since all that's left is Paul Simon's song.
Why is this piece making me tear -up? Bazaar. You'd think I lost my best friend. Never shot a roll and am now ashamed that Fuji 35mm was a go-to favorite. End of an era, God bless Kodachrome....
-and miles and miles and thousands of hours of all kinds of motion pictures on 8mm, Super-8, and 16mm. I had 5 rolls in that last bunch at Dwayne's. We had a snow storm the day I shipped them and they almost didn't make it on time!
I am sad I never shot any. I'm using Kodak T-max, Ilford, and Fuji Provia and Velvia, but like so many, I was always thrilled to see all of those Kodachrome photographs in National Geographic. I remember 'The Afghan Girl' when that issue came in the mail.
All my home movies were shot on Kodachrome 40 Super 8mm. Recently have been getting all my collection converted to digital and found the frame by frame scanning technology far superior than any previously used projection based capture. The last four short films uploaded on my channel were all filmed with the Canon 1014e on Kodachrome 40, and scanned with frame by frame technology. You can tell the difference. It is a faithful mirror of the original film look. The film stock and color which hasn't changed a bit mind you after up to 30 years in cans.
As much is that would be cool it's literally impossible. 10 years since the last roll of Kokdachrome was produced. Yet somehow all the processes it that are required to make it have been lost to time already in a decade. Simply nobody knows how to make it anymore and that's the unfortunate truth.
Seeing this film stock being done makes me bummed out not for Kodachrome being discontinued but other film stocks are gone as well and we will never try them again.
My comments you just vanished and so I am saying it again . Many people actually care about Kodachrome and come back and read the comments here and you will see how many people are upset about Kodachrome being phased out but also there are some very recent vids where people are talking about it coming back
As a Kodak employee selling Kodak microfilmers to banks decades ago, I continued a Leica addiction that was developed in college. How delightful it was to be able to get almost unlimited rolls of film mailed off to the Kodak lab in SFO for processing at no expense to me. I shot mostly Kodacolor because I preferred prints. Despite that personal bias, I found this segment poignant and quite nostalgic. I would have thought the very last roll of Kodachrome would have been processed in a Kodak-owned lab and not an indy lab in Kansas. (So rapid was the collapse of my old company -- shocking!)
*By far the biggest mistake Kodak has ever made was the discontinuation of Kodachrome Reversal film in Super 8 Sound Striped 50 & 200 ft cartridges, and in 16 and 35 mm rolls both in motion picture and still camera loads ! What a pathetic tragedy ! 👎🏻👀👀👀😳😳😳😳*
Kelly Shane Fuller is getting everyday closer to figure out a way to develop it at home. No just BW he already got some samples with color. Maybe in 2-3 years he will be at a point, where he finally can tell the world how it works or he just can process it.
Well it's sad that Kodak doesn't make any color reversal cine film stock anymore. Fuji is out as well. Kodachrome was fantastic also for 16mm motion picture film - and the 40 tungsten defined the look of Super 8mm film for decades. I still have three rolls of 16mm motion picture Ektachrome 100D (E-6) in the freezer, which was a great looking color reversal film (remaining, expired rolls are very sought after and ridiculously expensive by now) but not as stunning looking as Kodachrome - and now the E 100D is gone as well. At least I can get it processed just about anywhere. Well now we have the fantastic Kodak Vision 3 negative color film stocks for shooting motion pictures in all formats. About the Kodachrome process being very toxic: there are so many chemical processes being carried out every day which are far more toxic.
Yes! Awesome! Heard the Soundcloud interview a few days ago: at least in 35mm still photography and Super 8mm. Would LOVE seeing this also min 16mm (film schools?). Not to mention the fact that Kodak is seriously looking into bringing back KODACHROME! That would be a dream come true!
I have made a lot of 120 film Kodachrome slides with my Mamiya 645 . The colors were very natural not that chemical like Fuji Velvia . But 120 Kodachrome is now a long time history .....
I have shot thousands of Kodachrome 64 slides. Long lasting and bright colors. I used the Canon A-1 as my go to camera. I still have the camera and one unopened box of Kodachrome 64. I still shoot film at times, now I shoot with Fujichrome. Digital images last forever and have superb colors, so it is time to move on.
nobody wanted to comment on this!!!?? i am not so sure we are living in a world where no one cares about a transition from the film processing period into an entirely digital one. even a clip on the transformation of locomotives from steam power to electrical engines which took place decades ago would attract more people here than this. so, why? why ignore this? that is unbelievable!
This story was not about the end of film processing but the end of the Kodachrome film and developing process. Film will still be around for quite sometime yet. There are still other types of color film out there that are being used and that Kodak still makes and produces, in additon to black and white film. The Kodachrome process was very expensive and labor intensive when compared to other developing processes.
I would like to see Kodachrome 25 come back, this was a fantastic film. With the resurgence of analog (FILM) photography could Kodachrome 25-64 come back ?Yes, I know that there is Etkachrome again along with Fugi Velvia and other brands of transparencies also but they don't have the impact that Kodachrome has. Has any of the equipment used for processing Kodachrome been preserved or put into storage ? It would be wonderful to shoot this film again !!
It’s not just the equipment but chemicals only made by Kodak. It was a film you would have to mail away to develop as it could only be supported by big labs developing a lot of film. Small development runs were completely impractical.
There are some vids here that are recent from the past few weeks with people asking is Kodachrome coming back but I haven't watched those yet so I don't know what's going on
They were still selling and developing Kodachrome. It was no more expensive than any other roll of film, about $5-$10 bucks for one and it still isn't. The problem is that they stopped developing the chemicals so you'd be shooting on a useless roll of film.
There is another great CZcams vide of Steve and his shoot with the last roll. To say the least, it's bittersweet. I think Kodak kept thinking that it might benefit from the same type of renaissance that vinyl records did. Maybe they will...
There are several vids here from only the past few weeks where people are talking about the possibility of Kodachrome coming back but I haven't watched those yet
@@MrShobar there are some vids here where people are talking about the possibility of Kodachrome coming back but honestly I haven't watched them yet ... but they are only a few weeks old so maybe there is something going on with Kodachrome coming back
i don't this this is entirely true..what about those 50-100 photographers around the world who are shooting with a 100-year old view camera? who makes their big slides? i guess that this morning special si financed by kodak to speed up the sales of the "remaining" rolls.
meh, provia is better. if you're he'll bent on a kodachrome like experience just do trichromy photography with B&W film. the stuff was toxic as fuck and glad it's gone B+W, C-41, & E-6 is much better regardless of what nostalgic ideas people have about kodachrome. we amazing film available today with ultra low grain and virtually grainless when using large formats.
+Joe Doe My career was built on Kodachrome and Tri-X, however I succumbed to the temptations of E-6 films, specifically Fujichrome (Velvia and Provia) in the early 90s as more K-14 labs were closing making fast processing of Kodachrome more difficult vs same day processing for E-6 films. That said, I now wish that I had shot a few farewell rolls before Dwayne's K-14 processing machines were switched off. Whilst like everyone else I shoot digital for my editorial and commercial work, however I still shoot a roll of E-6 a few times a month to keep sharp.
cameraman655 nice, I still shoot 99% film. C41 and E6 both have great stocks although unfortunately E6 has very limited choices, the choices we do have though are great, so I can't complain too much.
Yep, Velvia is flashy, that's for sure. But just bear that in mind and look for shots that play to the strength of Velvia. NOT to be used for human portraiture.
thank god this medium is dying!!! I always hated film and always thought of it as compromise and noting but! Im so happy with digital plus its so much cheaper and you can see the results instantly. Digital rulz! :)
Mike Tayon that’s cause you’re too blind in your mind to accept new technologies. All you old minds just can’t deal with advancement of any kind. Get with the times and technology.
At least Etkachrome is back and soon to 120!
The last photo Steve took should have been of Dwaynes shop...
The last frame processed was of the store and the staff.
My biggest regret now as an amateur photographer is that I never got to shoot Kodachrome, I didn’t shoot my first roll of slides until 2017 and I loved what I got, but I would have preferred the film stock in my camera to have been Kodachrome. I love that Kodak brought back Ektachrome and I immediately fell in love with its color pallet, but I’d give almost anything to be able to shoot Kodachrome and be able to have it processed in color. Like most things I like, I was born a decade or two too late.
I used Kodachrome II (ISO 25) in an old Leica IIIa in the 1960's and rejoiced when Kodachrome X (ISO 64) finally arrived. When the rangefinder Nikon S2 made way for a Canon SLR, then a Nikkormat FTn, I began using Ektachrome, especially High Speed Ektachrome (ISO 160) due to slow lenses and weak electronic flash units. In time, Orchid photography led to Kodachrome 25, and I did try Kodachrome 200, which didn't quite measure up to Ektachrome 200. A job change took me away from Kodachrome in general, and film photography in particular. When I could return to photography, slide film had been shunted aside by Kodacolor II and 400. Kodachrome has been gone for years, but it's like an old friend is dead and gone, since all that's left is Paul Simon's song.
Why is this piece making me tear -up? Bazaar. You'd think I lost my best friend. Never shot a roll and am now ashamed that Fuji 35mm was a go-to favorite. End of an era, God bless Kodachrome....
Mama took my Kodachrome away
-and miles and miles and thousands of hours of all kinds of motion pictures on 8mm, Super-8, and 16mm.
I had 5 rolls in that last bunch at Dwayne's. We had a snow storm the day I shipped them and they almost didn't make it on time!
I am sad I never shot any. I'm using Kodak T-max, Ilford, and Fuji Provia and Velvia, but like so many, I was always thrilled to see all of those Kodachrome photographs in National Geographic. I remember 'The Afghan Girl' when that issue came in the mail.
Yep, I like Velvia too. I usually have its simulation dialed into my Fujifilm X100 fixed-lens camera . . . which I love.
I wish i paid attention more back in early 2000s never really got into photography until after 2015 :(
All my home movies were shot on Kodachrome 40 Super 8mm. Recently have been getting all my collection converted to digital and found the frame by frame scanning technology far superior than any previously used projection based capture. The last four short films uploaded on my channel were all filmed with the Canon 1014e on Kodachrome 40, and scanned with frame by frame technology. You can tell the difference. It is a faithful mirror of the original film look. The film stock and color which hasn't changed a bit mind you after up to 30 years in cans.
Thank you so much for this Absolutely Beautiful.Deb 👌
Great story about a great film. I too shot a few rolls of this highly favored film.
The shots at the beginning sunrise where just nahhhh
Just beautiful.
BRING IT BACK I MISSED PKR 64 & PKL 200!
As much is that would be cool it's literally impossible. 10 years since the last roll of Kokdachrome was produced. Yet somehow all the processes it that are required to make it have been lost to time already in a decade. Simply nobody knows how to make it anymore and that's the unfortunate truth.
Send the specs to China,,, and they will be cranking the developers, and film out in less than two months....
Seeing this film stock being done makes me bummed out not for Kodachrome being discontinued but other film stocks are gone as well and we will never try them again.
My comments you just vanished and so I am saying it again .
Many people actually care about Kodachrome and come back and read the comments here and you will see how many people are upset about Kodachrome being phased out but also there are some very recent vids where people are talking about it coming back
As a Kodak employee selling Kodak microfilmers to banks decades ago, I continued a Leica addiction that was developed in college. How delightful it was to be able to get almost unlimited rolls of film mailed off to the Kodak lab in SFO for processing at no expense to me. I shot mostly Kodacolor because I preferred prints. Despite that personal bias, I found this segment poignant and quite nostalgic. I would have thought the very last roll of Kodachrome would have been processed in a Kodak-owned lab and not an indy lab in Kansas. (So rapid was the collapse of my old company -- shocking!)
*By far the biggest mistake Kodak has ever made was the discontinuation of Kodachrome Reversal film in Super 8 Sound Striped 50 & 200 ft cartridges, and in 16 and 35 mm rolls both in motion picture and still camera loads ! What a pathetic tragedy ! 👎🏻👀👀👀😳😳😳😳*
Still got 2 freezer rolls in 2019. 😢
Oops! Can't develop it.
Kelly Shane Fuller is getting everyday closer to figure out a way to develop it at home. No just BW he already got some samples with color. Maybe in 2-3 years he will be at a point, where he finally can tell the world how it works or he just can process it.
Bring it Back!!!
Well it's sad that Kodak doesn't make any color reversal cine film stock anymore. Fuji is out as well.
Kodachrome was fantastic also for 16mm motion picture film - and the 40 tungsten defined the look of Super 8mm film for decades. I still have three rolls of 16mm motion picture Ektachrome 100D (E-6) in the freezer, which was a great looking color reversal film (remaining, expired rolls are very sought after and ridiculously expensive by now) but not as stunning looking as Kodachrome - and now the E 100D is gone as well. At least I can get it processed just about anywhere.
Well now we have the fantastic Kodak Vision 3 negative color film stocks for shooting motion pictures in all formats.
About the Kodachrome process being very toxic: there are so many chemical processes being carried out every day which are far more toxic.
truefilm Ektachrome is coming back!
Yes! Awesome! Heard the Soundcloud interview a few days ago: at least in 35mm still photography and Super 8mm. Would LOVE seeing this also min 16mm (film schools?). Not to mention the fact that Kodak is seriously looking into bringing back KODACHROME! That would be a dream come true!
thanx that was interesting
I have made a lot of 120 film Kodachrome slides with my Mamiya 645 . The colors were very natural not that chemical like Fuji Velvia . But 120 Kodachrome is now a long time history .....
I am glad to say I shot a roll of Kodachrome 64 back in the day!
Man, what if Eggleston wanted that roll...
I have shot thousands of Kodachrome 64 slides. Long lasting and bright colors.
I used the Canon A-1 as my go to camera. I still have the camera and one unopened box of Kodachrome 64. I still shoot film at times, now I shoot with Fujichrome.
Digital images last forever and have superb colors, so it is time to move on.
nobody wanted to comment on this!!!?? i am not so sure we are living in a world where no one cares about a transition from the film processing period into an entirely digital one. even a clip on the transformation of locomotives from steam power to electrical engines which took place decades ago would attract more people here than this. so, why? why ignore this? that is unbelievable!
Come back and read the comments and you will be surprised how many people really care about Kodachrome
This story was not about the end of film processing but the end of the Kodachrome film and developing process. Film will still be around for quite sometime yet. There are still other types of color film out there that are being used and that Kodak still makes and produces, in additon to black and white film. The Kodachrome process was very expensive and labor intensive when compared to other developing processes.
I wish Kodachrome could be brought back, but I can't see it happening when smart phones are threatening to make cameras obsolete.
Damn I thought the movie Kodachrome was making shit up. Sad to see it go :(
I would like to see Kodachrome 25 come back, this was a fantastic film. With the resurgence of analog (FILM) photography could Kodachrome 25-64 come back ?Yes, I know that there is Etkachrome again along with Fugi Velvia and other brands of transparencies also but they don't have the impact that Kodachrome has. Has any of the equipment used for processing Kodachrome been preserved or put into storage ? It would be wonderful to shoot this film again !!
It’s not just the equipment but chemicals only made by Kodak. It was a film you would have to mail away to develop as it could only be supported by big labs developing a lot of film. Small development runs were completely impractical.
There are some vids here that are recent from the past few weeks with people asking is Kodachrome coming back but I haven't watched those yet so I don't know what's going on
Kodak RIP, Jerks : (
how expensive was a roll of kodachrome back in 2010/11?
They were still selling and developing Kodachrome. It was no more expensive than any other roll of film, about $5-$10 bucks for one and it still isn't. The problem is that they stopped developing the chemicals so you'd be shooting on a useless roll of film.
Fujifilm classic chrome film simulation exists atleast
There is another great CZcams vide of Steve and his shoot with the last roll. To say the least, it's bittersweet. I think Kodak kept thinking that it might benefit from the same type of renaissance that vinyl records did. Maybe they will...
There are several vids here from only the past few weeks where people are talking about the possibility of Kodachrome coming back but I haven't watched those yet
The only thing close is provia. Velvia is too saturated.
é Hoje....
not really an in depth look at the process just a review...
Turns out mama didn’t take our Kodachrome away Kodak did
the only bad in film is the high price,in digital age this is bad.we miss film becouse kodak never find the way to be more cheap the price of film.
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I do hope they bring back Kodachrome!
Not a chance.
@@MrShobar there are some vids here where people are talking about the possibility of Kodachrome coming back but honestly I haven't watched them yet ... but they are only a few weeks old so maybe there is something going on with Kodachrome coming back
@@gardensofthegods"... there are some vids here where people are talking about..". That's reliable information.
Piange 😢😢😢😢
A good story until they started to play old (and annoying) simon and garfinkel records.
i don't this this is entirely true..what about those 50-100 photographers around the world who are shooting with a 100-year old view camera? who makes their big slides? i guess that this morning special si financed by kodak to speed up the sales of the "remaining" rolls.
100 year old cameras still use film. Kodachrome was just one kind. Not everything is a conspiracy mate
Mashghool = Muz_ahim
Asiah Muzahim. No |d|
meh, provia is better. if you're he'll bent on a kodachrome like experience just do trichromy photography with B&W film. the stuff was toxic as fuck and glad it's gone B+W, C-41, & E-6 is much better regardless of what nostalgic ideas people have about kodachrome. we amazing film available today with ultra low grain and virtually grainless when using large formats.
+Joe Doe
My career was built on Kodachrome and Tri-X, however I succumbed to the temptations of E-6 films, specifically Fujichrome (Velvia and Provia) in the early 90s as more K-14 labs were closing making fast processing of Kodachrome more difficult vs same day processing for E-6 films. That said, I now wish that I had shot a few farewell rolls before Dwayne's K-14 processing machines were switched off. Whilst like everyone else I shoot digital for my editorial and commercial work, however I still shoot a roll of E-6 a few times a month to keep sharp.
cameraman655 nice, I still shoot 99% film. C41 and E6 both have great stocks although unfortunately E6 has very limited choices, the choices we do have though are great, so I can't complain too much.
Callisto Idiot
Provia is just not the same. Maybe superior in some ways, but not the same colours.
Yep, Velvia is flashy, that's for sure. But just bear that in mind and look for shots that play to the strength of Velvia. NOT to be used for human portraiture.
That photographers beard or whatever is so gross.
thank god this medium is dying!!! I always hated film and always thought of it as compromise and noting but! Im so happy with digital plus its so much cheaper and you can see the results instantly. Digital rulz! :)
ki0ng Dude get with the times. Film blows
ki0ng 2006? It’s always been a shit medium, but then you would not know this because you are obtuse!
fbw71u Not at all. I just wrote my view on it. That’s all. You read it and understood it incorrectly. :)
NOTHING replaces the saturation, depth, and dynamic range of film, yet.
Mike Tayon that’s cause you’re too blind in your mind to accept new technologies. All you old minds just can’t deal with advancement of any kind. Get with the times and technology.