Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Mamma don't take my Kodachrome away

The last lab in the world is no longer processing Kodachrome.

Demanding both to shoot and process, Kodachrome rewarded generations of skilled users with a richness of color and a unique treatment of light that many photographers described as incomparable even as they shifted to digital cameras. “Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day,” Paul Simon sang in his 1973 hit “Kodachrome,” which carried the plea “Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away.”

Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kodachrome&st=cse
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/a-color-saturated-sun-sets-on-kodachrome/?scp=2&sq=kodachrome&st=cse

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