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2010 September 01 | MacNews

Kodachrome

On September 1, 2010, in Apple, by Jack Beckman
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The last roll of Kodak Kodachrome film was produced earlier this year and given to a famous photographer to shoot with. In addition, the last place you can even have Kodachrome processed will stop at the end of the year. For anyone still wondering – film photography is dead. Can you buy other brands? Sure, but just as the song Kodachrome says "I can read the writing on the wall."

It doesn't matter if you think film photography is better than digital photography – the battle is over, and digital has won. Just like Beta is still available – to professionals with high-end cameras only  - because VHS won that battle. For a while you could buy blank tapes, but that dried up pretty quickly. And now VHS is going away as well, replaced by Digital Video Recorders (DVRs). Technology marches on, and unless you don't want to move forward with it, you need to change with the times too.

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