Well, if you’ve been hording your kodachrome, better get it to Dwayne’s by noon, because today is the last day ever to process the seminal film.
Kodachrome has been the subject of songs, has had a state park named after it, and has been the subject recently of many a misty-eyed reminisce by film photogs, many of whom grew up on the stuff.
Dwayne’s was the last place in the world processing Kodachrome, but no more. No more chemicals. No more processing. No more Kodachrome.
This is not the end of slide film in general, though it is a rather large nail in the coffin.
Even now, Dwayne’s is processing on average of about 700 rolls of kodachrome a day. Which might seem like a good number, but when you consider that’s 700 rolls a day IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, that’s just not enough demand for Kodak to continue making the film and, more importantly, the magic chemicals which gave kodachrome its distinctive colours.
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Shot my last two rolls (iso 25 & iso 64) yesterday afternoon, after the rain cleared, and rushed off to Fedex…
R.I.P Kodachrome
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