Salute to Kodak thread

[Greg McCary]

This is the official Photography review salute to Kodak, we will always love you thread. Hoping they make it through the crisis. Post your Kodak moments here.
I grew up with Kodak Instamatics. I wish Obama would bail them out or something...

This was taken with my new favorite film camera, Mamiya 7, Tmax 400, printed on Ilford paper but developed in Kodak Dektol. This is a scan of the print.


Along the River by Cosmonaut's, on Flickr

[Photo-John]

Great idea, Greg!

[GB1]

Not sure a bailout would help. Kodak's problem isn't managerial or (short term) financial, at least not anymore - it's technological, and you just can't fight technological change. I don't see how the traditional film companies can keep afloat, at least without major biz model adjustments.

btw, I haven't heard anything on Fuji. I think Agfa is out of biz, not sure on Ilford.

Here's a few old pix I took with Kodachrome and Ektachrome:

[Greg McCary]

Bridge in B&W by Cosmonaut's, on Flickr

[Greg McCary]

Here is another from last summer but I am going to go thru some old pictures later, I mean old.lol
Dig thru those old old shots, scan them and bring them on all.


Man at the Fountain by Cosmonaut's, on Flickr

[Photo-John]

All of my old film is in storage in California so I can't share any of old Kodak film photos. But I did want to contribute to this thread. It's a great idea and Kodak deserves our attention right now. Anyway, it took me a few days to get it done, but here's my salute to Kodak:

[Greg McCary]

My mom and dad were never known for their photography skills, cutting off heads ect. But here is one of me, my dad, and my sister Regina. I am sure this is Panama City.
This is kind of what I had in mind with the thread. My family always had some sort of Kodak camera until Poloroid came about.

[Ballen Photo]

Time marches on.
KODAK, It's been a great run. Adieu.
-Bruce

[Photo-John]

Time marches on.
KODAK, It's been a great run. Adieu.

Don't give up on them yet! Bankruptcy doesn't mean it's all over. Hopefully this gives them a chance to evaluate what part of their business works so they reorganize and keep things going. This doesn't have to be the end.

[Ballen Photo]

Don't give up on them yet! Bankruptcy doesn't mean it's all over. Hopefully this gives them a chance to evaluate what part of their business works so they reorganize and keep things going. This doesn't have to be the end.

Well, I hope you're right but with Kodachrome gone, & film processing drying up at a rapid pace, their future looks mighty bleak.
-Bruce

[Greg McCary]

I have been stocking up when I can. Due to the cost of development I have quit shooting color film. I would love to shoot some 120 slide but it just cost to much.
This is my late sister Karen, a year before I was born.

[wfooshee]

Dad shot Kodachrome most his life, until he remarried in the early '80s and his new wife whined about how much work it was to view slides.

Being raised in Kodachrome, it was what I shot until my slide projector blowed up, and I started shooting prints.

What makes the Kodachrome great (besides its archival fastness) is that the family pictures we have are in color, and the family pictures most of my cousins have are B&W prints.

My dad passed just over a year ago, and I took his slide library and projector home, bought a film scanner, and got busy. I viewed every stinking slide, and scanned about half of them.

Here's one of an aforementioned cousin, and when I posted it on Facebook she went crazy thanking me for posting. She'd never seen a color picture of herself as a toddler, and had no idea her hair had been that color! The picture is from spring 1957.


Early Ektachrome, on the other hand . . . . . . Here's one of me in 1958, maybe a year old, and what I've been able to recover of it in Photoshop. I'm pretty sure Mom took it because my face is centered in the frame . . . . .


I still have the camera that took all of these, a Voigtlander Vitessa folding rangefinder (with the Ultron 50mm f/2 lens!!!!,) and it's still in good working order.

My own first camera was a Kodak 126 Instamatic, a cheap one that wouldn't even turn the flashcubes for me! No Kodachrome for that one! As I got into college I asked for a "real" camera for Christmas, and got the Vitessa as a hand-me-down! Talk about having to learn how to shoot! Manual rangefinder and a hand-held light meter!

But look here. This came from the VERY FIRST roll of film I put through that camera! Taken in 1978, I think, on Kodachrome 25. I LOVED that stuff!!!!!

[mwfanelli2]

I was a Kodachrome fan for many years. My first camera was a Kodak Brownie; I still remember a B&W image I took of Navy ships at the Brooklyn Navy Yard when I was a kid. Must have been single digits in age.

The attached is a Kodachrome of my little sister in about 1961. The Ektachrome is all gone but good KR just needed a simple tweek to get a visible result.

[Axle]

I adore Kodak films, especally their C-41 offerings. And I do have hopes that Kodak will continue on! (Film included!)

But let's start off, I came into Kodachrome way too late, but I was very pleased with the results I got.


Some Kodachrome 25 -- actually manufactured here in Canada in Toronto


To a Symbolic Last day on Kodachrome 64 in Downtown Toronto


The Delicious skintones given by the new Portra stocks (Portra 160).


The Torture you can give to Portra 400 (shot at 1600, no push during Development)


And the warm (almost kodachrome like) colours of Ektar 100


Not the mention the classic feel of Tri-X


And Plus-X


How easy it is to scan, even the E100G slide film


But finally, the only building left of the Toronto Kodak Plant, Building 9, shot on yes, Ektar 100.

[Ballen Photo]

I adore Kodak films, especally their C-41 offerings. And I do have hopes that Kodak will continue on! (Film included!)

But let's start off, I came into Kodachrome way too late, but I was very pleased with the results I got.

To a Symbolic Last day on Kodachrome 64 in Downtown Toronto

The Delicious skintones given by the new Portra stocks (Portra 160).

The Torture you can give to Portra 400 (shot at 1600, no push during Development)

And the warm (almost kodachrome like) colours of Ektar 100

Not the mention the classic feel of Tri-X

And Plus-X

How easy it is to scan, even the E100G slide film


But finally, the only building left of the Toronto Kodak Plant, Building 9, shot on yes, Ektar 100.

What a GREAT POST! Thank You.
-Bruce

[Don Schaeffer]

These were taken with my Kodak Z740 (10x electronic viewfinder camera)
Lest we forget.

[Greg McCary]

I am lovin this thread

[Franglais]

Here are two of my earliest done in August 1969 with an Instamatic on Kodachrome-X slide film. I'm amazed that slide film came out so well on such a simple camera.

Taken in Valetta, Malta

[Greg McCary]

Charles those are great.
Here is an interesting timeline of milestones. They really had the world by the tail at one point. I wish there was something that as photographers we could do to help them survive? Petition for a bailout or something?
1878-1929

[natalie26]

Hi everyone, I am natalie, a newbie. I join because I LOVE photography so much. I love taking pictures of anything. Thanks for sharing those wonderfully taken pictures. Somehow it reminds me of so many things. KODAK for me is still the best camera in town...

[SmartWombat]

And one from WTD:
strip | What The Duck

[Photo-John]

And one from WTD:
strip | What The Duck

Thanks for sharing that, Paul. That was a good addition to this thread and a very nice tribute from WTD.

[Liz]

All of my old film is in storage in California so I can't share any of old Kodak film photos. But I did want to contribute to this thread. It's a great idea and Kodak deserves our attention right now. Anyway, it took me a few days to get it done, but here's my salute to Kodak:

Oh my goodness!! I LOVE that Brownie! The Container Store in NJ has one similar to yours, John, on a shelf in their store. They are a classic store - and I love the way they "dress" up the shelves with classic stuff. I always take a look at that camera when I go there.

Thanks for sharing this photo. The Brownie Hawkeye was my first "serious" camera when I was a little kid. Before that one, I had a smaller Brownie - can't recall the model. But the Hawkeye was a HUGE "upgrade" and gift for me. :thumbsup:

Liz

[Liz]

This is one of the best threads we've ever had on Photography Review. I have enjoyed viewing each photo, reading every word, and have been touched by the beautiful memories everyone here has shared.

What a wonderful Tribute to Kodak!

John - I think you should send a link to this thread to KODAK!

Liz