Kodachrome
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'''Kodachrome''' was the brand name of a particular film technology released by Kodak in 1935 (after years of experimentation going back as far as the 1920s), and discontinued in 2009. The most popular and well-known format of this film was [[35 mm slides]], but it was used for other sorts of film, both still and motion-picture. Kodachrome was very popular in its time, and was memorialized in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po song]. Alas, like Paul Simon's mom, Kodak did eventually take Kodachrome away. The film ended production in 2009, and on December 30, 2010, the last photo lab in the world with the capacity to develop Kodachrome (requiring special processes and chemicals not found in normal photo labs) ceased this service. There are reportedly ways of developing Kodachrome in black-and-white only that can be performed in normal photo labs, but as Simon sang, "Eveything looks worse in black-and-white." | '''Kodachrome''' was the brand name of a particular film technology released by Kodak in 1935 (after years of experimentation going back as far as the 1920s), and discontinued in 2009. The most popular and well-known format of this film was [[35 mm slides]], but it was used for other sorts of film, both still and motion-picture. Kodachrome was very popular in its time, and was memorialized in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po song]. Alas, like Paul Simon's mom, Kodak did eventually take Kodachrome away. The film ended production in 2009, and on December 30, 2010, the last photo lab in the world with the capacity to develop Kodachrome (requiring special processes and chemicals not found in normal photo labs) ceased this service. There are reportedly ways of developing Kodachrome in black-and-white only that can be performed in normal photo labs, but as Simon sang, "Eveything looks worse in black-and-white." | ||
| − | == | + | == Technical info == |
| − | * [http:// | + | * [http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/e55/e55.pdf Technical data (official Kodak document)] |
| + | * [http://www.super8.nl/file/7268.pdf Technical data on Kodachrome movie film] | ||
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| + | == History of Kodachrome == | ||
* [http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/08/early_color_film_from_1922_actresses_vamp_for_the_camera.html 1922 Kodachrome test footage] | * [http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/08/early_color_film_from_1922_actresses_vamp_for_the_camera.html 1922 Kodachrome test footage] | ||
* [http://mentalfloss.com/article/33499/last-roll-kodachrome-film The last roll of Kodachrome] | * [http://mentalfloss.com/article/33499/last-roll-kodachrome-film The last roll of Kodachrome] | ||
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| + | == Other links == | ||
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome Kodachrome (Wikipedia)] | ||
| + | * [http://www.zoggavia.com/Kodachrome_Slide_Film.html Kodachrome info] | ||
Revision as of 01:34, 22 February 2013
Kodachrome was the brand name of a particular film technology released by Kodak in 1935 (after years of experimentation going back as far as the 1920s), and discontinued in 2009. The most popular and well-known format of this film was 35 mm slides, but it was used for other sorts of film, both still and motion-picture. Kodachrome was very popular in its time, and was memorialized in song. Alas, like Paul Simon's mom, Kodak did eventually take Kodachrome away. The film ended production in 2009, and on December 30, 2010, the last photo lab in the world with the capacity to develop Kodachrome (requiring special processes and chemicals not found in normal photo labs) ceased this service. There are reportedly ways of developing Kodachrome in black-and-white only that can be performed in normal photo labs, but as Simon sang, "Eveything looks worse in black-and-white."
