POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
I too loved Kodachrome.
My picture library includes about 4,000 images on Kodachrome.
While long a holdout against digital photography, I finally went over to it when I thought the quality had reached a high level.
So I made my little contribution to Kodachrome's passing.
Still it is melancholy to see the end of such an extraordinarily fine product.
Kodachrome had a longer life in the finished slides than just about any other color film.
It was comparable to Technicolor for movies. Movies shot in Technicolor survived many decades for restoration, while other film stocks literally faded away, losing forever certain images.
Historical slides in Kodachrome from the 1930s are still good images. Other color films after only a few decades faded away.
