Oh, absolutely. Kodak has wanted to kill Kodachrome for a loooong time now.
One less albatross. -Brendan --- Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brendan MacRae wrote: > > >RIP Kodachrome 1935 - 2006. What a run... > > > >Of course, I need to remind all of you that I've > been > >hearing about Kodachrome's "final" demise for about > 20 > >years. In fact, I remember that in 1992 when I was > in > >film school, Kodak had announced (as they did > >virtually every quarter) that they were "suspending > >manufacture" of Kodachrome. Later, they sent out > >another press release reversing themselves saying > that > >the adverse public reaction had nixed the deal and > >that production would continue. And that was just > for > >the Super 8 and 16mm versions. > > > >So who knows? It's the zombie of the film > >world...undead until further notice... > > I'vejust been looking around the Kodak web site > (http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/prodSupportIndex.jhtml) > Under the "Films" heading there's a listing for > "Color Transparency > Films: E-Family" (Ektachrome) but nothing for the K > family > (Kodachrome). If you follow the E-family link you go > to a page with a > menu that *does* include "KODACHROME Professional > Films", which is a > link to a page with only one film: Kodachrome 64. > I note that each of the Ektachrome films has its own > page with a > sample photo and glowing descriptions of the film's > desirable > qualities. The buried Kodachrome page just has a few > lines of text. It > really looks as if Kodak wishes Kodachrome would > just go away. > > -- > Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > 412-687-2835 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
