Sorry for the lack of posts lately; the New Year festivities have kept me otherwise occupied.
For those of you who can remember back to the days before digital cameras (which should be most of you), buying rolls of film and getting them developed was a process. With the advent of .gif files and USB cables, film began to go the way of the dinosaur. And now, one of the icons of photography, Kodachrome film, is set to become Dodo-ized. According to this article in the New York Times, a family photography center by the name of Dwayne's Photo has become the last film processor to offer the service in the country.
Officially, Kodak stopped making Kodachrome in 2009, but now that the only place in the country to process them is going out of business, Americans of all walks of life have been rushing to get their last rolls of film to the shop. The last photo is slated to be a picture of the employees of Dwayne's Photo, outside the shop before it's demolished. Get your film in now, or you could be waiting on those photos to be processed for a long, long time.
Sad, but life moves on. I will miss film, but only a little.
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