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Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed
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.
Maybe you can upload your digital pics to Google Mail, and hope they'll still be there in 40 years (crosses fingers). Or copy them to a USB drive and hope that USB is still a usable connector in 2050 (unlikely) or doesn't catch on fire.
I've lost a lot of stuff over the years due to computer rot, but fortunately most of it still exists thanks to anal-retentive persons uploading the files to places like HVSC (C64 music) and AmigaArchive. Emulation is fantastic - keeps the old memories alive. Unfortunately that won't help me preserve those old digital photos that I've lost..... like my cross-country 2000 trip that disappeared when Geocities disappeared.
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