Monday, 22 June 2009
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Paul, you was asking the wrong person
Of all of Paul Simon's wonderful songs, Kodachrome has never really meant that much to me because I didn't really understand the song. Like all of his lyrics it contains some catchy turns and, of course the melodic line is very strong. "When I think back on all the CRAP I learned in high school..." Very catchy.
Still, it made me sad to read today that Kodak is doing away with their Kodachrome®©™ film after 74 years. There have been some wonderful images captured on that fine product, but I suppose it was inevitable. Plus which none of the Kodak big wigs was Paul Simon's mother (I don't think), so they didn't mind taking it away...
I guess when the Kodaccountants looked on their ledgers at the cost of production verses the declining sales, they realized that everything looks worse in black and white 
AU mourns a little.AU~out
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Comments (3)
Those startling green eyes!!
And to think most of the time they are completely covered by that burka. *tsk*
So first it was Polaroid and now Kodachrome. Times...they change. I used to want my MTV but then they stopped playing music. Once I wore dotted swiss but who even knows what that is anymore? My grandmother thought it a shame I didn't know what a Victrola was and my kids have never heard of RCA (although over the weekend I saw that no one had ever taken down Ball's Record shop sign advertising RCA in Crockett!). Do you think that someday even Walmart might even disappear?
Sadly, I've already dropped 1000 e-props on you today.
It is a pity. I guess they'll be specialty collector's items now.
I don't mourn it for myself because I've really grown as a photographer since I went digital. But I think it's a shame that it's no longer going to be available. I figured they'd just keep producing it in smaller amounts for those who still want to practice the art.