Jesspos: Kodak have anounced the end of Kodachrome

Jessops just rang me to say that they cannot supply my recent order
for Kodachroime 200. "the manufacturers have informed us that this
product is no longer being made".

is this the long expected end of Kodachrome?

Robert

 

I thought it's been discontinued ages ago, was I wrong?

 

With "it" I mean KC 200 of course.

 

Per the Kodak page, K-chrome 64 is still supported, though I'm not sure
of the difference between "PKR" and "KR". Web searches suggest the "P"
KR is a professional version, but I'm not really sure.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/colorReversalIndex.jhtml?id=0.2.22.14.11&lc=en

KODACHROME 64 (PKR)
KODACHROME 64 (KR)

 

Kodachrome 200 was discontinued lat year.

Kodachrome 64 is still available. For those of us in Europe, it is
now sent to the USA for processing although we still get to send it to
Switzerland or Germany as before.

Some of mine have been mailed back from the USA but my last batch of
Kodachrome 64 slides were all posted back from Switzerland, but were
obviously developed in the USA, with card mounts and a card case.

 

I haven't shot 64. I used to shoot 25 but that was a couple decade ago.

Maybe time to order a brick of 64.

 

K64 is still available, and TTBOMK still being produced.

I'm a bit surprised that K200 hung on after K25 was axed. It may
be Kodak had a few freezers full of K200 and K25 and the K25 freezer
emptied first.

Why axe K25 instead of K64 is a mystery to me.

If it were up to me, the last two films being made would be
Tech Pan and K25.

I think K64's demise is inevitable. I shoot it as my
main film but I am sure I am in a very small minority
who does.

The unwashed masses stopped taking slides when Kodak got
Kodacolor prints to work. Slide film lived on because it
was the film for media and stock photography. Now that
99.9% of media/stock photographers use digital there isn't
any real market for slide film except for iconoclasts and
a few technical markets.

 

Yeah.....the problem is, when the film goes away, the processing labs will
go away too. Right now, there is only one left on this continent......

 

Sounds as if we're edging toward the end of any good reason to keep
all that 35mm equipment ...

 

Not quite yet. AFAIK, Kodachrome 64 is going to be around for a while
longer. Kodachrome 200 never achieved the popularity of earlier
formulations.

 

And those of us who just enjoy it and will use it as long as it's available.

 

This got me thinking. I have 9 rolls of KL-200/36 in the plastic cylinders
that have mostly been kept in the freezer, along with 9 of the PK-36 prepaid
mailers. If anyone is interested in this, contact me and make an offer.

Regards,

 

Dwaynes, in Kansas I think, is the only one left in the world, and
probably in the entire solar system.

Father Kodak

 

Only if you don't care for B&W or think that digital B&W equals film,
with all its possibilities for development.

Father Kodak

 

Not the only Kodachrome processor in the whole solar system, but I've sworn
not to tell anyone on this planet...
and the shipping time is a real pita...

 

Well, I'm strongly moving towards mostly-medium format right now;
shooting MF has never made more sense as now

(Gotta sell a T-90, A-1, FTb, 50/1.4 S.S.C and other good stuff before
I go bankrupt with all the MF stuff I bought. I'll be keeping the
absolutely best parts of my 35mm equipment, though.)

 

I bought a pack of 10 a few weeks ago. It must have been old stock I
guess. I'm glad that 64 will keep going a little longer. i presume
that they will eventually give a year's notice of the demise of the
processing so that all 'in date' film can be processed.

Robert

 

There is a superb selection of film still available in green boxes,
with a new formulation of Fuji Velvia 50 just having been introduced
in Europe.

The probable demise of Kodachrome might be symbolic to some, but it is
certainly not the end for film, not by a very long way.

 

But other than locally, there's plenty of them, right?

 

You can get E-6 done locally.

Kodachrome is process K-14 and Dwaynes is the only place left that does it.