Monday, June 22, 2009
KODACHROME
Cameras have always been a bit marginal in my life but this is kinda upsetting:
Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak's taking Kodachrome away
In reality, I didn't take slide photos. It was too much trouble. All the racks and projectors and shit.
I mostly used Kodacolor, the print film. They quit that brand in 2007. The Kodak company is sort of disappearing into the digital age.
When I started writing this item I was all nostalgic and now I realize this has no nostalgia value for me at all.
Why am I writing this?
Blogging is like that some days.
I see a piece of news and I take off. Midstream in the post I realize that it doesn't really matter much.
When was the last time you saw someone's Kodachrome slide show?
Weren't you dying to have it over after the first few slides?
Wasn't it a pain in the ass?
Good riddance. Fucking Kodachrome. A pox on our society for 74 years.
If you want to see Kodachrome now, you will have to go to the Kodachrome Basin Park south of Zion National Park and take a drive around. We did that. It is very colorful and no slides. The real thing.
