Kodak has announced that it will no longer manufacture Kodachrome film. This is not a surprise, but it is a disappointment. It's the finest transparency ('colour slide') film ever made. Richard B. Woodward's excellent article in the Wall Street Journal traces the history of Kodachrome.
I have not been able to buy Kodachrome in Canada for the last two years, but I do have a couple of exposed films which I must send to the USA for processing.
While I use mostly black and white film I've used Kodachrome for the last four decades for colour work. While I can no longer buy unexposed Kodachrome I can continue to scan and work with the thousands of transparencies I've made since the mid-1960s. I'm pleased that I worked with the best colour film available and that I used a lot of it.
Collections of Kodachrome transparencies or other positives or negatives may be very valuable to families and to archivists. Don't let your father, your grandfather or your Aunt Maude discard them just because everybody is using digital photographs and '...well, we don't know who some of these people are.' These photographs are part of our photographic heritage.
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