1935 - 2009

Kodachrome, which I have of course heard of but never even had to use myself (being quite the young whelp), has given up the ghost and put another nail in the nice little coffin film photography has been building itself. Strangely enough, this announcement occurred the same day that Popular Photography’s “Flash” blog highlighted one of the most famous photos shot with Kodachrome. This marks the end of its apparently 74 year production life.

For those of you under the age of about 25 or so, Kodachrome was a color-reversal film. Film, in turn was this strip of light-sensitive material we had to load cameras with before Ashton Kutcher found the D90 intriguing. Archaic, I know, but there it is.