bsharpe411 Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 <p>53 years ago a young fellow (me) went into a local department store in small town Pennsylvania looking for my first 'real' camera. I was tired of fuzzy flat B&W drugstore prints from a non-adjustable Brownie. Michael, the manager of the jewelry/camera department talked me into a Kodak Pony IV. I had no idea about the role of shutter, aperture, or focus but Michael patiently worked with me over a period of a year or so. He explained what went wrong on the bad shots and praised me for the good ones.</p> <p>He introduced me to the yellow & red Kodachrome 135 box and opened up a whole new world of color for me. Those 50+ year-old slides still look great. I have tens of thousands of Kodachromes that followed as I progressed into the SLR's with all their bells and whistles. Sitting on my shelf...next to my Canon collection...is that same Kodak Pony Michael sold me. It still works flawlessly.</p> <p>On December 31, 2010 Kodachrome gasped it's last breath. I just finished reading the old hometown paper online. Michael died January 1, 2011. Michael took his favorite film with him.</p> <p>I'll miss them both.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph_wisniewski Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 <p>On the last day of the going out of business sale at Adray's, my favorite camera store, Rick, my favorite sales person, sat down after ringing up the last sale, and died of a massive coronary.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw63 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 <p>Where is Rod Sirling when you need him ?</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randrew1 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 <p>Rod Serling died at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, a few miles from where Kodachrome was invented and produced. Anolther Kodachrome coincidence?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James G. Dainis Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 You guys are starting to scare me. James G. Dainis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc_batters Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 <p>In a fit of boredom, I took a look at the film section on the big auction site yesterday. <br /> Lo and behold, there were over two dozen sellers listing Kodachrome for sale, with auction posting dates in JAN, days after the films last gasp at Dwayne's. Of course, none of these sellers mentioning the film is now dead.</p> <p>Or is it?</p> <p>Even if you got the rolls of film for free, is there any viable use for this film, now that the chemistry is gone, and the last processor has ceased the proper Kodachrome developing end of the process?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_robison3 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 <p>I understand that Kodachrome can be developed to a B&W negative by any standard B&W developer or can be reversal processed to a B&W slide. Of course the question would be why bother. I suppose that if some undeveloped but exposed film were discovered and one wanted to recover the image bad enough it would be better than nothing. I'm sure this question will pop up on the film processing forum in the next few weeks and someone will post complete instructions on means and methods.</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the celt 2 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 <p>My dad told me many times that while he was in the Army Air Corp in WW2. When they couldn't get any B&W film, they would shot Kodachrome, and process it to a B&W negative.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James G. Dainis Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 john, <P> The fellers over at Film and Processing (the last bastion of <I> real </I> photography) are way ahead of you. <P><a href="http://www.photo.net/film-and-processing-forum/00XvHp">Processing Kodachrome as B&W</a> James G. Dainis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph_wisniewski Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 <blockquote> <p>You guys are starting to scare me.</p> </blockquote> <p>And we didn't even get into the moped twins or the Boothe brothers...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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