Kodachrome Availability Update

Here’s a quote: “Advertising. It’s what makes great brands great.” Those trendy twenty-something’s with Leica’s swinging from their necks could be influenced by internet-based marketing. My job is sales. That’s all I do at work. The best sales approaches leverage the features of the product. Slow speed? Retro color pallet. Grainy? Sharp and appealing. Mail time? Just proves it’s the real thing. No, not everyone would be convinced (maybe not even very many). But enough could be to keep the film alive indefinitely. Still, I bet that the decision-makers at Kodak don’t see it that way. I have no doubt that Kodak tried to keep Kodachrome alive. But it’s not technology that keeps products alive. It’s what they mean to people in their real lives that keeps products relevant. And that’s where sales, marketing and advertising come in. Kodachrome is a product that has the potential to be cool and retro. It’s so old, it’s new. The fact that this film has gone by the wayside, says more about where it’s been than where it could go. But it’s up to Kodak to decide what to do this unique, irreplaceable film.

Q.G. said:

I had a look around, and couldn't find Kodachrome over here in the Netherlands.

I liked Kodachrome a lot. But the 25 variety. Not the currently still available 64 variety.

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In the Netherlands, Dappa sells Kodachrome:

http://dappa.nl/shop-prices-page.html

though I wouldn't call that cheap. It might be cheaper to buy a 10-pack here in the UK.

Photo Engineer said:

The first tripack substantive (coupler in the film) negative and print material were produced by Agfa using Brovira emulsions and Fisher couplers in the late 30s about the time of Kodachrome.

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And here we have something similar concerning name:

Before the invention of Schneider there already was `Agfacolor´: an additive, random filter array colour film.
That was why the new subtractive one was called `Agfacolor-Neu´ for some time...

Similar in name, but probably not similar in history.

Man and God were given time and money to come up with something better than (among other things) John Capstaff's Kodachrome process.
The two geniuses however ended up proposing that Kodak make and sell something that was very much like John Capstaff's Kodachrome.
Only in the nick of time did they come up with something better than that old Kodachrome process.
I think the name was chosen to commemorate that narrow escape.

doitashimashite said:

In the Netherlands, Dappa sells Kodachrome

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Never heard of them.

It's probably cheaper to buy Kodachrome from a dealer in the UK or elseweher, because that's what Dappa is doing as well.
The difference being that Dappa of course wants to earn a profit as well as the dealer they buy the film from.