kodachrome

Reading Railway mag today. The last laboratory in the world to process kodachrome colour slides has now closed.

 

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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi!

Digital is better - so they tell us!

 

Never, I have slides on this film dating back to the mid 60's and they are still as good they were when they were returned from Kodak. I will add that they along with all my slides have been kept in boxes to avoid light getting to them. Sad to see this item going

 

One thing that does come to mind about digital photos is you don’t have the slide/photo in your hands unlike a film slide. What will happen to digital photos over a period of time? Will we be able to access them in say twenty years time when technology makes another big leap forward? Will computer discs become unreadable after a long period of time (degraded)? Will we see photographers trying to upgrade there prized photos on to a new format before they are lost forever. Unlike a film slide which is going to be viewable in say forty years time?

 

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Paul Simon

 

I always thought Kodachrome was too blue, I prefered Fuji. A lot of my slides I took on Kodachrome 64 have got fungus on them, the Fuji (so far) are clear. I agree with 'TBirdFrank' that digital is better, and I'm quite sure that as digital technology moves on so will the ability to convert from one format to another. Don't be afraid of the future!

Regards

 

Kodachrome too blue? I'd say Fujichrome (or Ektachrome even) was more blue than Kodachrome. Took some pics at IAT 1991 of some blue Phantoms both on K25 and Fujichrome 50, the Fuji slides were way more blue than the K25 ones of the same aircraft.
I agree regarding accessing digital images in the future. Even if manufacturers want to push new formats, there will always be those who will enable us to access older formats, especially if there's money in it.

 

Why not the JPG is 20 years old this year.
the GIF image dates back to 1987

Going back to the idea of raster graphics using pixels.. (the underlying principle of all image formats) these date back to the NASA space program of the 1960s, where Voyager sent (and still does) send back cell reference numbers and a colour hex number, which in the early days was manually coloured in to a spreadsheet to develop pixelated images...
think of a low tech spreadsheet along the lines of cell A1:Red, A2:Green, A3:Red, A4:Black etc

JPG, GIF, TIF and BMP are the Agfa, Ilford, Kodak and Fuij of the 21st century.