Despite Paul Simon, The Kodachrome Project and pleas of many others, Kodak have taken Kodachrome away. It's so serious it even made the main BBC news.
Kodak have a slide show of Kodachrome's best images. Lovely as they are you cant help think that most of them would look better in Fuji Velvia. And that is the real reason for Kodachrome's demise; Fuji just makes better slide film.
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing, and although I have not used Kodachrome for at least 15 years I'm going to give it one last go for old times sake. I'm taking a batch to China in September for a last goodbye.
Others are in this fad as well; what camera will you use for the last roll, what will you shoot, what is worthy of the film, etc? Harmless fun or postmodern pointlessness? Steve McCurry will, at Kodaks request, shoot the last roll. He said "I want to take (the last roll) with me and somehow make every frame count ... just as a way to honor the memory and always be able to look back with fond memories at how it capped and ended my shooting Kodachrome"
