Kodak is finally retiring its venerable Kodachrome color film after a long service of 74 years. Remember those Kodak moments? Many of them were created using Kodachrome. If you shot slide photos, chances are you were using Kodachrome.
It started life in 1935 as the first commercially viable color film which ended the dominance of additive processes like Autochrome and Dufaycolor that ruled the color film and plate markets in 1900-1920.
Kodachrome has since become the film of choice for a number of great photographers who worked for magazines like Time, Life and National Geographic.
But after 74 years, even Kodak agrees that Kodachrome has seen its best years, not only because of the advent of the digital age, but also because film users have moved on to newer films like the Kodak E100SW and E100VS.
Existing Kodachrome stock will last until about October this year, after which the icon will take its permanent place in photographic history.
[Site: Kodak]
