Kodak Kills Kodachrome Film »
Posted By TimALoftis 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away.
The Eastman Kodak Co. announced Monday it's retiring its most senior film because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age.
The world's first commercially successful color film, immortalized in song by Simon, spent 74 years in Kodak's portfolio. It enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s and '60s but in recent years has nudged closer to obscurity: Sales of Kodachrome are now just a fraction of 1 percent of the company's total sales of still-picture films, and only one commercial lab in the world still processes it.
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TimALoftis7 months, 3 weeks ago
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and now a little Paul Simon and 'Kodachrome'
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blainegarrett7 months, 3 weeks ago
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"The company now gets about 70 percent of its revenue from its digital business, but plans to stay in the film business "as far into the future as possible,"
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As a very amateur hobbyist photographer, i have spent more on SD cards in the last 15 years than on film... and that is not to say that I have not purchased a lot of film back in the day. -
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