Kodak retiring Kodachrome film [View All]

Source: Associated Press via Google

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Eastman Kodak Co. is retiring its most senior film, the iconic Kodachrome, because of declining demand in this digital age.

Kodachrome was introduced in 1935 and became the world's first commercially successful color film.

It had its heyday in the 1950s and '60s and Paul Simon immortalized it in song when he crooned "Mama don't take my Kodachrome away" in 1973.

But sales of the unique film are now just a fraction of 1 percent of Kodak's still-picture film sales, and only Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kan., still processes it.

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Many of my most prized photographs were taken with Kodachrome before I switched over to all digital photography. Kodachrome will be missed.