Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed

Posted by kdawson on from the gimme-the-greens-of-summer dept.

Wired's Gadget Lab picked up a wistful story from the Wichita (Kansas) Eagle on the processing of the last roll of Kodachrome film that Kodak produced. "Freelance photojournalist Steve McCurry, whose work has graced the pages of National Geographic, laid 36 slides representing the last frames of Kodachrome film on the light board sitting on a counter in Dwayne's Photo Service in Parsons [Kansas]. ... National Geographic has closely documented the journey of the final roll of Kodachrome manufactured, down to its being processed. Dwayne's is the only photo lab left in the world to handle Kodachrome processing..." If you have any rolls of Kodachrome sitting around not yet exposed, better get them to Dwayne's before December 10, 2010.

10 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. Figures by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    36 slides

    It figures he would make them into slides. Now all he needs to do is invite his extended family over to his house on false pretenses and subject them to an interminably long slide show. Brings back horrible, horrible memories.

    1. Re:Figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Confetti?

    2. Re:Figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Top Ten uses for Slide Film:

      1. Goat detection at night

      2. Repairing broken transistors

      3. Finding out where the moon is

      4. Telepathic, brain-damaged, gay crabs

      5. Pidgeon shit

      6. Linux servers

      7. Designing a robot

    3. Re:Figures by Deadstick · · Score: 3, Funny

      And with dead-tree books going away, he may not have anything to put under the front of the projector...

      rj

    4. Re:Figures by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 2, Funny

      >> sharing would be trivial and space requirements would be almost nil.

      Plus, where the heck can you get slides of gay amputee midget Star Wars porn?

    5. Re:Figures by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't answer that!

  2. VELVIA is dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Long live VELVEETA!

  3. Re:So, *will* it be missed? by GrumpySteen · · Score: 5, Funny

    > I wonder what my grandfather was able to experience that I'll never get the chance to?

    Polio epidemics.

  4. Re:So, *will* it be missed? by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sometimes it's nice being a geezer; I wonder what my grandfather was able to experience that I'll never get the chance to?

    Tuberculosis.

    --
    W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
  5. Re:So, *will* it be missed? by RandomFactor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't that be wheezer?

    --
    --- Mercutio was right.