Saturday, January 1, 2011

Kodachrome film is seriously at the end of its life -- again

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Kodachrome film is iconic enough that there have now been several
'goodbye, Kodachrome' news stories, and we just couldn't resist one
more. This time, our tale is of Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas
(which we've had occasion to reference once before), a film processing
store which has the distinction of being the final place to accept
Kodachrome for development. The problem? The store has been flooded
with packages of undeveloped film from all over the world as the
window for its processing comes to an end. It turns out that having
that distinction will get you hundreds of rolls of film a day, and
Dwayne's Photo said that it would not process any films that arrived
after Thursday. Yes, that was yesterday, though the mail is
undoubtedly still arriving.

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