Tim Bennet.
Entirely Average Member
- Location
- S of Kendal
Kodak have just announced that there's to be no more Kodachrome slide film. Until three years ago, my entire life (and my Dad's back to the late 1930's) have been chronicled in the sequentially numbered little yellow boxes stacked up in the cupboard here.
The end of every holiday or expedition was always marked by the same ritual; the dispatch of the little yellow envelopes to 'Box 14, Hemel Hempstead, Herts". The good thing was, as the processing was prepaid, it didn't matter how destitute or broke you were at the end of a trip, you could always afford to get your slides 'done' and looking at them would buoy you through the depressing, post trip blues until the next half baked plan could be hatched.
I can't blame Kodak: I too largely deserted Kodachrome 64 and went (almost completely) digital three years ago. I just kept a few rolls for use in my Ricoh GR1v as nothing that small or lightweight comes close in digital. But, better use up the last rolls and seal down those little envelopes for the last time.
The end of every holiday or expedition was always marked by the same ritual; the dispatch of the little yellow envelopes to 'Box 14, Hemel Hempstead, Herts". The good thing was, as the processing was prepaid, it didn't matter how destitute or broke you were at the end of a trip, you could always afford to get your slides 'done' and looking at them would buoy you through the depressing, post trip blues until the next half baked plan could be hatched.
I can't blame Kodak: I too largely deserted Kodachrome 64 and went (almost completely) digital three years ago. I just kept a few rolls for use in my Ricoh GR1v as nothing that small or lightweight comes close in digital. But, better use up the last rolls and seal down those little envelopes for the last time.