Brendan MacRae wrote: >RIP Kodachrome 1935 - 2006. What a run... > >Of course, I need to remind all of you that I've been >hearing about Kodachrome's "final" demise for about 20 >years. In fact, I remember that in 1992 when I was in >film school, Kodak had announced (as they did >virtually every quarter) that they were "suspending >manufacture" of Kodachrome. Later, they sent out >another press release reversing themselves saying that >the adverse public reaction had nixed the deal and >that production would continue. And that was just for >the Super 8 and 16mm versions. > >So who knows? It's the zombie of the film >world...undead until further notice...
I'vejust been looking around the Kodak web site (http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/prodSupportIndex.jhtml) Under the "Films" heading there's a listing for "Color Transparency Films: E-Family" (Ektachrome) but nothing for the K family (Kodachrome). If you follow the E-family link you go to a page with a menu that *does* include "KODACHROME Professional Films", which is a link to a page with only one film: Kodachrome 64. I note that each of the Ektachrome films has its own page with a sample photo and glowing descriptions of the film's desirable qualities. The buried Kodachrome page just has a few lines of text. It really looks as if Kodak wishes Kodachrome would just go away. -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
