The last roll of Kodachrome was processed this week. I won’t make any cheesy Paul Simon references like the ones I’ve heard on the news. All I will say is that for the people who made their living on this film platform it is truly the end of an amazing era in photographic history. The other thing
I’ll say is that those people are probably doing just fine, and are still producing fantastic images.
I do miss shooting film exclusively. Handing my film to someone else to process. Editing an entire shoot in the span of maybe twenty minutes and then passing the selects off to the scanning service to handle any necessary color correction and retouching. I kind of miss grease pencils, 5x lupes, light tables and the other stuff that surrounded the film work flow.
We had it good back then. We had to be on our game technically because we couldn’t just fix it later. I remember working hard on the shoot and when the shoot was over, not working. Now, I work hard on the shoot and work a lot after the shoot to prepare the images. Now that I think about it, what the hell have we done to ourselves?
You can check out the article from the Wichita Eagle HERE
Nostalgia is good, but I’m glad things are easier! You still need to have a handling of photography (as you do). Now their are new tools to learn for post-processing!