Last of My Kodachrome

The 64 has an expiry date on the box of Jan 2007, and the 200 ISO isn’t dated, unless anyone knows how to read bar codes. Seventy-two frames. Enough for a reasonably coherent project. Must be finished this month. Dwayne Photo in Kansas is doing processing until his chemicals last, rumour being that’s December. It’ll cost $10 per film for process & mount, plus postage $14.95, also of course the cost of sending them over, insured, registered, tracked, etc.

Pondering some excellent subject matter, and the weather is absolutely ideal right now. Perfect golden hour is currently falling at around 4-5pm and there’s usually a softly bright layer of low cloud, the great diffuser of the gods. Can’t wait. Meantime, here are a few of the links saved to delicio.us last month. It’s November already.

Links for October 3rd to November 2nd:

• YouTube – Kodachrome – Slide show of lovely kodachrome photographs, some highly coloured, some very subtle, showing the range of this lovely film.
• BBC – Viewfinder: A Kodachrome a day for 64 weeks – “This will take us to the end of 2010, a date that marks the death of Kodachrome, 75 years after its introduction, as the last processing laboratory handling the film will no longer offer the service.”
• Fight for Freedom: 1943 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive – Analysing the numbers and notches on a single sheet of 5×4 Kodachrome
• 4×5 Kodachromes | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive – Fantastical things, the stuff of dreams.
• Solo Exhibition for Magnum Photographer Steve McCurry at Stadtmuseum Schleswig | Art Knowledge News – Steve and his photo of Sharbat Gula, the woman with the amazing green eyes, shot of course on Kodachrome.
• The Kodachrome Project – The Kodachrome Project One last look on Kodachrome (in America)
• KODAK Knowledge Center – Can I still use my prepaid mailer? Not if it’s out of date. Dang.
• Dwayne’s Photo – A trusted name in photo finishing for over 50 years. – The only remaining processor of Kodachrome films in the whole wide world.
• Women and Dreams: Last Summer of Kodachrome – “There remains one last summer of Kodachrome, and beyond that there is the void.” Beware, she seems to dislike us English.

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