Fuckin' A : KODACHROME Discontinuation

I predicted it was coming, but dreaded the day. It has come:

Eastman Kodak Company announced on June 22, 2009 that it will discontinue sales of KODACHROME Color Film this year, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. Sales of KODACHROME, which became the world's first commercially successful color film in 1935, have declined dramatically in recent years as photographers turned to other films or digital capture. Today, KODACHROME represents just a fraction of one percent of Kodak's total sales of still-picture films.

Despite all its outstanding features, KODACHROME involves a highly complex development process...

... KODACHROME has very distinct characteristics and no film will give the exact same results...

here's more of Kodak's official statement including FAQ's

and here's their own Kodachrome tribute.

if you want to see my tribute just look at 95% of the color in either Fuck You Heroes, Fuck You Too, The Idealist, or DogTown - The Legend of the Z-Boys. As far as quality products that mean something to me this one ranks above all else, even Apple. This is like loosing your favorite paint brush or camera lens or guitar, forever. Their are others, but none will be the same at all.
Perhaps one day in the future some one will invent a Kodachrome mode in digital photography....

peacE.