[jogiba]

That celebrated 75-year run from mainstream to niche photography is scheduled to come to an end on Thursday when the last processing machine is shut down here to be sold for scrap.

In the last weeks, dozens of visitors and thousands of overnight packages have raced here, transforming this small prairie-bound city not far from the Oklahoma border for a brief time into a center of nostalgia for the days when photographs appeared not in the sterile frame of a computer screen or in a pack of flimsy prints from the local drugstore but in the warm glow of a projector pulling an image from a carousel of vivid slides.

In the span of minutes this week, two such visitors arrived. The first was a railroad worker who had driven from Arkansas to pick up 1,580 rolls of film that he had just paid $15,798 to develop. The second was an artist who had driven directly here after flying from London to Wichita, Kan., on her first trip to the United States to turn in three rolls of film and shoot five more before the processing deadline.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html?src=me

[eddie1960]

Sad to say the least, I have Kodachrome shots at home that precede my birth by many years having inherited some family photos (and I'm 50)
It was truly an amazing film

[Ira]

I thought Dwayne's was still processing it.

[gofour3]

Yeah I’m fighting back the tears as I’m posting this. I had my last nine rolls of Kodachrome 64 developed in early November.

What’s even sadder is all the people who never got a chance to shoot a roll of Kodachrome. They have no clue what they missed.

R.I.P.
Kodachrome 1935 - 2010

[eddie1960]

today is the last day dwaynes is processing, then they shut down the machine and sell it for scrap. with the exception of the last few weeks of frenzy and people trying to get their film in it's only been operating a few hours a week
one guy in the article picked up 1580 rolls of train shots (talk about obsessive)

[gofour3]

I thought Dwayne's was still processing it.

Today (Dec 30th) is the last day. Your film has to be in Dawyne's by noon, to get processed.


Phil.

[eddie1960]

Yeah I’m fighting back the tears as I’m posting this. I had my last nine rolls of Kodachrome 64 developed in early November.

What’s even sadder is all the people who never got a chance to shoot a roll of Kodachrome. They have no clue what they missed.

R.I.P.
Kodachrome 1935 - 2010

I must admit it's been a number of years since i shot it, I kept looking at ads this year with people selling off the film they couldn't feasibly finish and thinking i should really shoot it one last time. I didn't and now I'll kick myself for it until the memory fades (like a lot of my old slides)

[Ratmagiclady]

Hats off!

Ah, now I suppose I'll have to save these long-expired rolls of Kodachrome 25 to show the nephews. 'What's that, Auntie?'

[Ira]

I'm on my iTouch and didn't go to the link and know the article was about Dwayne's, but wow:

I had no idea it would be such a short time between discontinuing the film and Dwayne's pulling the plug on processing.

I haven't visited the SLR film threads in ages, but has anyone started a Post Your Kodachrome shots?

I have a bunch to scan, taken with my Mamiya Sekor 1000.

[Ira]

Hats off!

Ah, now I suppose I'll have to save these long-expired rolls of Kodachrome 25 to show the nephews. 'What's that, Auntie?'

I would love to buy a roll of 25 for display and old times' sake, especially since that's the speed I always shot.

[eddie1960]

I'm on my iTouch and didn't go to the link and know the article was about Dwayne's, but wow:

I had no idea it would be such a short time between discontinuing the film and Dwayne's pulling the plug on processing.

I haven't visited the SLR film threads in ages, but has anyone started a Post Your Kodachrome shots?

I have a bunch to scan, taken with my Mamiya Sekor 1000.

there is quite a long kodachrome thread Ira
Scan your stuff it'd be great to see
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-film-slr-discussion/79075-kodachrome-lives.html

[jogiba]

I still have Kodachrome 135 & 120 in my film freezer in the basement along with Kodak mailers . I am the world's biggest procrastinator.

[eddie1960]

I still have Kodachrome 135 & 120 in my film freezer in the basement along with Kodak mailers . I am the world's biggest procrastinator.

god i wish i'd had some of the 120 never shot it on my medium format

[jogiba]

god i wish i'd had some of the 120 never shot it on my medium format

I shot Kodachrome 120 with my Pentax 67 and I think this photo was with Kodachrome 120 on my 67 with 400mm @F4:

[Ratmagiclady]

I would love to buy a roll of 25 for display and old times' sake, especially since that's the speed I always shot.

Well, drop me a PM, I suppose. I do have a couple, at least. The only box is kind of destroyed from being in the end pocket of a bag I'd been cacheing all over the place for about twenty years, but the film itself is untouched in a can. Got a bit of a backlog of things to send around that was on hold amid the holidays.