1950’s Cars KODACHROME

[Tin Can]

and people

https://youtu.be/Yw-vWWGNrQA?si=cd_UdIH5OGndjEqX

[JMO]

A nice walk (ride?) down memory lane! And it's too bad that we don't have Kodachrome around any more. Thank you for posting the video.

[Vaidotas]

Thanks for sharing.
When kodachrome ended up as film for everyone?
Any reason for that?
Inner competition with other Kodak products?
There must be an interesting story.

[John Kasaian]

Thanks!:cool:

[Jim Jones]

Kodachrome had to be developed by Kodak. Ektachrome could be developed by other labs. This was convenient, but some of those labs were noticeably inferior to Kodak. I shot so much Kodachrome in the 1950s and 1960s that I had a rubber stamp made up with their Palo Alto processing lab address, 925 Page Mill Road as I recall.

[Tin Can]

Have you all watched the movie about the LAST DAY OF KODACHROME

I have seen it twice

My MANY KODACHROME still perfect

But only one manual tiny projector survives

9 step process

bean counters

and spell check doesn’t know if

[Mark Sampson]

Here's a short and incomplete explanation.Kodachrome was introduced in the late 1930s and was the first successful color film. Meant for 8mm home movies, and in 35mm for slides to be projected. It became immensely popular, but while the film was relatively simple to make, the processing was enormously complex. So Kodak kept processing in-house. After WWII, anti-trust actions forced EK to introduce Ektachrome, a color film that could be processed by independent labs and home users. But Kodachrome remained the quality standard, and a famous trade name for many decades after. For example, National Geographic magazine required its photographers to use Kodachrome; its color rendition, sharpness and (relative) archival permanence made it the best choice.
But by the 1980s, the rise of home video, improved color-negative films and minilabs, and better-quality E6 films all began to chip away at Kodachrome sales; this combined with EK's quality issues at its (huge-volume) Kodachrome labs caused sales to decline further. Of course the digital revolution killed Kodachrome in the end. Many people miss it, but it's not coming back.