Thread: Kodachrome - the end of an era

hard to believe its all gone

Very sad

I wonder if there is an opening here for a small business?

Fraser

Originally Posted by fraser130

I wonder if there is an opening here for a small business?

Fraser

Having seen the video, basically Kodak stopped producing the reagents last year. So the processors were on borrowed time anyway. It would be a difficult job to reproduce the complicated chemicals, unless Kodak feels like being helpful.

It's not just processing. Who will make the film?
I'm still using 120 Fujichrome Velvia and it's still being processed (by Atkins in Adelaide).
I think it's days are numbered though.

how did that song go?
"video killed the radio star."

now " Digital killed the kodak lab"

A mate is a professional photographer and a freelance photo-journalist. He was told about 2003-2004 by the Kodak rep. that Kodak planned to be totally out of film other than medical and industrial film by 2009. Kodak closed their processing plant in Australia the next year. He was quite concerned because he has a pre WW2 German cut film camera using 8 x 12. He says the camera and its lenses are irreplaceable. No-one currently makes anything like it or the quality. Hand made to order, and the factory bombed flat in 1943.

Life goes in circles,

When I started using Kodachrome the only place you could get it processed was in Melbourne, then places stated appearing all over the place, Don't remember the name but there was a place in Carlton (Syd) that processed Kodachrome then it almost came down to the corner shop before shrinking back to very few places (not that I was using them at that time). Now nowhere


Martyn