So long, Kodachrome
We waited up nights to open those golden boxes--like young children surprised with glee and knowing we could drift asleep again and that all was right with the world, and that there was still Kodachrome, and almost nothing else mattered.\
After 74 years, Kodak is retiring Kodachrome film. While some of the world’s best photographers have used it to produce some spectacular images, Kodachrome has been pushed to the fringes of photography.
From the AP (which couldn’t resist the bad Paul Simon joke in the hedline and the lede)
It enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s but in recent years has nudged closer to obscurity: Sales of Kodachrome are now just a fraction of 1 percent of the company’s total sales of still-picture films, and only one commercial lab in the world still processes it.
See a slide show of iconic images shot on Kodachrome film.
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
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This is an incomplete article. It implies that consumers will not be able to buy camera film anymore. What are the alternatives?