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RIP -- Kodachrome

jonKranked

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Nov 10, 2005
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They should make smart phone apps that would replicate their films like the Hipstermatic camera for Iphone.
uh, doesn't quite work that way. it's harder than you think to make a photo looker better. hipstamatic does the opposite - makes photos look worse.
 

IH8Rice

I'm Mr. Negative! I Fail!
Aug 2, 2008
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woops. b/w my father and i, we have bunch of undeveloped kodachrome film....not 1600 rolls like the guy in the article, but 10-15 maybe.
 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
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Hmm... I have a bunch of pics from college (mostly inappropriate) that I never developed. I wonder if now is a good time, despite the fact that most will likely end up on the internets.
 

dante

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Feb 13, 2004
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Hmm... I have a bunch of pics from college (mostly inappropriate) that I never developed. I wonder if now is a good time, despite the fact that most will likely end up on the internets.
Pretty sure that Kodachrome was slides-only, so normal 35mm film (ie, printed pictures) would be fine.

I'll admit that I stopped using my film SLR sometime in the late 1990s when I first got a digital camera (ooooooh, 2.1mp point & shoot!!!) and DSLRs have been a godsend due to not having to worry about $10 (roll+processing) costs only to find out that 1/2 your pictures turned out like crap.... But it's still sad to see it go.

Maybe this will be the impetus to finally go out and pick up a second-hand Canon film body to go out and have some fun with.
 
Jul 28, 2003
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At least from a landscape photo perspective, Kodachrome took the first hard body blow in the early 90s when Fuji released Velvia (which they tried to can, but is back due to public demand). It also had to compete w/Kodak's Ektachrome, too.

There's a function in Adobe Lightroom that adds a grain effect to simulate film.
 

Heidi

Der hund ist laut und braun
Aug 22, 2001
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Some customer brought in a floppy disk the other day that he claimed proved he didn't owe on a loan he has. I don't have a friggin disk drive you dillbag!
 

CBJ

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Mar 19, 2002
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uh, doesn't quite work that way. it's harder than you think to make a photo looker better. hipstamatic does the opposite - makes photos look worse.
Smarty pant I know what the hipstamatic app does I was thinking in broader terms as in it applies a filter to give a desired look of the picture. Kodachrome still gave a certain look to the pictures that cold be replicated. Again they did not need to limit themselves to and phone app but it could be added to more cameras which they actually sell or license it to other manufacturers.

Also if the hipstamatic makes a pictures looks worse is subjective anyway.
 

golgiaparatus

Out of my element
Aug 30, 2002
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Heard about this on NPR seems like months ago... wasn't about development though. It was about the last roll of KC being given to some famous photographer to use.

BTW I bet I still do have a roll sitting in the drawer with my old Nikon FM.
 

BIGHITR

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Nov 14, 2007
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Wow, my father would flip if he were still alive to see all of this. I even used to have a land camera but got rid of it. I still have sealed chemicals from photo classes in college sealed in bags along with all the developing equipment, slide developer tumblers etc, sitting in a dark closet for years now. I've even got some stuff from the 40's and 50's actually that my father had tucked away in boxes sitting for years since he died, including paper, sealed cans of powdered developer, porcelain trays, old Zeis Icon I think it's called, Rolieflex cameras, you name it. I imagine now that all this stuff is going to be obsolete I should start putting it on Ebay....
 

Scrub

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Feb 4, 2003
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I'm with Joker on this one, I have a few rolls of film that should/need to be developed with unappropriate conduct on them also....anyone have a darkroom to process these images from said film?
 

splat

Nam I am
W. I still have sealed chemicals from photo classes in college sealed in bags along with all the developing equipment, slide developer tumblers etc, sitting in a dark closet for years now. I've even got some stuff from the 40's and 50's actually that my father had tucked away in boxes sitting for years since he died, including paper, sealed cans of powdered developer, porcelain trays, old Zeis Icon I think it's called, Rolieflex cameras, you name it. I imagine now that all this stuff is going to be obsolete I should start putting it on Ebay....
I have all that stuff too, including a Bessler 23C enlarger.
 

Pete..

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Wow, my father would flip if he were still alive to see all of this. I even used to have a land camera but got rid of it. I still have sealed chemicals from photo classes in college sealed in bags along with all the developing equipment, slide developer tumblers etc, sitting in a dark closet for years now. I've even got some stuff from the 40's and 50's actually that my father had tucked away in boxes sitting for years since he died, including paper, sealed cans of powdered developer, porcelain trays, old Zeis Icon I think it's called, Rolieflex cameras, you name it. I imagine now that all this stuff is going to be obsolete I should start putting it on Ebay....
It's not worth anything so I'll take it all for a hundred bucks...
 

BIGHITR

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I have all that stuff too, including a Bessler 23C enlarger.
I had this DeJur but I think I sold this for like $20 bucks in 1981.


Still got this though with the original tripod shown, problem is, I lost one of the three lenses to it. Sux.



Still have these below too. All were my father's before he went into WWII, he was a photographer. Never shot with the Zeis Ikon before. But I'm sure it takes great shots though. But the Rolie I've used. It's an incredible shot on 120. I still have one roll left in the fridge. Just the light meter on the Rolie don't work well on it. Also have his 2 brownies he took shots with when back in the 1940's/50's.




Got a bunch of old metal frames too. Just collecting dust. The cam's are in a closet though.
 

CrabJoe StretchPants

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Nov 30, 2003
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My old man had his Zeiss Ikon folding Contessa 35 stolen during a house break-in about 10 years ago.....please tell me that wasn't worth a lot of coin.....
 

north20

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Nov 5, 2007
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Yes it was given to the photographer who took this picture,Steve McCurry , for National Geographic.


You can see a few of those shots from that last roll of Kodachrome, along with many images by one of the finest photographers ever (in my not so humble opinion), here:

http://stevemccurry.wordpress.com/


On a personal note, however, I have to admit to having dumped Kodachrome pretty quickly not long after getting my hands on Velvia. I preferred that then new kid on the block's color rendition for the landscape work I mostly did at the time. Still, my collection of transparencies holds many, many Kodachromes. I miss the film era. Not that I'd want to totally give up digital and the ability to work with, and "develop", raw files; but for me personally there was an aesthetic to working with film that I have yet to feel when working in digital. Probably just comes from being older than sh*t :D