Kodachrome, which is apparently this really famous film or something which of course I’m too young to have actually used, may already have been declared dead, but it still existed, you know? And, well, it still does, but the only lab in the world that develops it says it has developed the last roll that was ever made (note that it wasn’t that last roll of it ever, that’d be hard to prove, wouldn’t it?).
For those curious, the roll was apparently shot by National Geo photog Steve McCurry, who’s only a little famous for using Kodachrome.
Dwayne’s Photo Service is apparently leaving its Kodachrome lab open through December 10, 2010. But after that, Kodachrome becomes a relic for the history books. In the words of a much smarter Hoosier: so it goes.
[edit] Corrected to ‘Dwayne’s.’ Thanks for pointing it out, PK.
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Sad to see it go but given all the inefficiencies in processing the film and the trouble scanning it I am surprised it hung around for so long. I will tell you this though – one of my prized possessions is a set of Kodachrome slides that I purchased at a Yard Sale in Indianapolis a while ago. They were shot in the 1940s and 50s, and were mostly photographs of Yosemite and the Rockies. I was just blown away by the color and of course the quant outfits that folks wore back then. I will probably put some of them on my blog as a homage to this great film.
One more thing….
I think it is Dwayne’s Photo Lab and not Dayne’s :-)
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