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Kodak Ending KODACHROME Run After 74 Years
Posted on: 2009-06-22 15:41:37 Still can't get that friggin' Paul Simon song out of its head News Source: Engadget Eastman Kodak Company announced today that it will retire KODACHROME Color Film this year, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. Sales of KODACHROME Film, which became the world’s first commercially successful color film in 1935, have declined dramatically in recent years as photographers turned to newer KODAK Films or to the digital imaging technologies that Kodak pioneered. Today, KODACHROME Film represents just a fraction of one percent of Kodak’s total sales of still-picture films. "Kodachroooome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama don't take my Kodachrome away" Kodak estimates supplies of existing stock will run out sometime in early fall. |