The end of Kodachrome

[Roger_Provins]

Here

[swanseadave]

Oh no,I love Kodachrome 64
I`d just been thinking about buying some,having just been looking through my old ones.

[Manofolympus]

I thought it was coming-they have been dismantling the range/processing facilities for some time-amusing how their websites manage to avoid mentioning Fuji Velvia. I'll be sorry to see it go as I use it a bit as well. I would presume the remaining lab will continue till the expiry date of the last batches-then go by how much work they're getting.

[beejaybee]

Was sorry to see K25 go but honestly don't care a damn about K64. For some reason it & I never got on together.

[FujiSigmaNolta]

Oh no,I love Kodachrome 64
I`d just been thinking about buying some,having just been looking through my old ones.

Well I have had a hard time find it it lately. And once I even though I could find it in 120, so I went in to a shop and asked for it and they looked at me as if I was on drugs.

[swanseadave]

Oh no,I love Kodachrome 64
I`d just been thinking about buying some,having just been looking through my old ones.

Well I have had a hard time find it it lately. And once I even though I could find it in 120, so I went in to a shop and asked for it and they looked at me as if I was on drugs.

It is listed for £8.49,post free Luis see here.Also at 7dayshop.
Most of my slides are Kodachrome over many years.

[Malcolm_Stewart]

My last one was never returned from processing, so that put an end to my use of a once favourite film. Still got some tucked away in the 2nd. fridge, I guess.

[nimbus]

I remember 120 K64 pro. An exquisite film indeed, I used my Mamiya 645 much less after this was discontinued, the last roll went through the camera in North Wales in, I think 1998.

I still have a 35mm roll to use, it will be the last it would seem, the extortionate charge for posting it does not help.

[FujiSigmaNolta]

Oh no,I love Kodachrome 64
I`d just been thinking about buying some,having just been looking through my old ones.

Well I have had a hard time find it it lately. And once I even though I could find it in 120, so I went in to a shop and asked for it and they looked at me as if I was on drugs.

It is listed for £8.49,post free Luis see here.Also at 7dayshop.
Most of my slides are Kodachrome over many years.

Thanks!

[Buri_Ram]

I still have a 35mm roll to use, it will be the last it would seem, the extortionate charge for posting it does not help.

81p to Switzerland seems a bargain to me, it costs £1.28 to post Fuji to Warwickshire..

[nimbus]

I was charged £1.28 for postage on the last K64 I sent to Lausanne.

[Buri_Ram]

I was charged £1.28 for postage on the last K64 I sent to Lausanne.

At three different Post Offices round these parts (NE Wales/Chester) I get charged £1.28 to send film inland to Jessops or Fuji and 81p to Fuji in Switzerland as foreign mail it doesn't have to fit through the 25mm slot.

[flapjackboy]

You could always roll your own

[John_K]

I must be the only one who has never had any terrific success with Kodachrome of whatever type. However as a film based user (mainly) I am sorry to see it go (and Velvia too) which leaves us with a very limited range of slide films to choose from. Sensia (But I have already heard the skids are under that as well) Provia and Kodak Elite.There may be more and I am sure you will let me know.

So sad because the quality from a correctly exposed slide film and projected will outweigh ANY projected digital image.

[nimbus]

Kodachrome was, is no longer being applicable, a film that required careful exposure. Once this was realised, it was capable of excellent results, the first discontinued K25 was amazing. I used quite a large amount of the 120 version of K64 pro and found the quality far exceeded any E6 film that was available at the time. The permanence is a bonus, even 1950s Kodachrome transparencies are still in good condition, long after Agfa and others have deteriorated to the point of uselessness.

Had Kodak continued r&d on this line, instead of allowing it into a terminal slumber, we might well have had a 100iso film with the quality of the old K25, that really would have given digital a run for its money.

[johnriley1uk]

Kodachrome was expensive to make and to process, as well as being very critical in all stages. Kodak stopped promoting it, stopped processing it properly and basically let it die. I stopped using it because I was fed up of magenta slides.

At its peak, it was superb.