Started by Fern Achterberg (@filmgrain_fern) ·
the last roll of Kodachrome
Kodak stopped making it in 2009, and Dwayne's Photo, the last lab still processing it, stopped accepting rolls at the end of 2010. Steve McCurry was given the very last roll Kodak ever made.
7 sources · 49 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “can you still develop kodachrome”
- Ended at
- Leopold Mannes
The Trail
- “can you still develop kodachrome” (google.com)
- Kodachrome (en.wikipedia.org)
- K-14 process (en.wikipedia.org)
the color dyes are added during development, not built into the film
- Dwayne's Photo (en.wikipedia.org)
the last lab in the world, in Parsons, Kansas
- Steve McCurry (en.wikipedia.org)
- Leopold Godowsky Jr. (en.wikipedia.org)
co-invented by two classical musicians, hence the old joke that it was made by God and Man
- Leopold Mannes (en.wikipedia.org)
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