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The end of an era. - 06-22-2009, 07:45 AM


Kodak announced today that with it's current run of Kodachrom film, that this will be it's last run.

They claim that with the onslaught of digital, there is no demand for it anymore.
Apparently it is less than 1% of their business.

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double damn...

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06-22-2009, 09:37 PM


and supposedly only one lab which processes it still.
Sad, even though I have only gone through <30 rolls

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06-24-2009, 04:59 AM


Well, We knew it was coming,...................not making it any easier to accept, but we knew. DAMN !!!! still got about a dozen rolls of film to process might still be good.

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06-25-2009, 01:33 AM


Film??? What's film? JK
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