A bit about Kodachrome:
"Kodachrome is the trademarked brand name of a type of color reversal film that was manufactured by Eastman Kodak from 1935 to 2009. Kodachrome was the first successfully mass-marketed color still film using a subtractive method, in contrast to earlier additive "screenplate" methods such as Autochrome and Dufaycolor, and remained the oldest brand of color film.
Over its 74-year production, Kodachrome was produced in formats to suit various still and motion picture cameras, including 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm for movies and 35mm, 120, 110, 126, 828, and large format for still photography. It was for many years used for professional color photography, especially for images intended for publication in print media.
Kodachrome requires complex processing that cannot practically be carried out by amateurs. The film is sold with processing included in the purchase price except in the United States, where a 1954 legal ruling prevents this." - Wikipedia
Afghan Girl - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text
Steve McCurry used Kodachrome for his well-known 1984 portrait of Sharbat Gula, the "Afghan Girl". It is also belived that McCurry brought the last roll of Kodachrome that was sold this was tracked by National Geographic it was processed at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons -Kansas which is the only lab in the world able to still process the film. Processing is scheduled to cease in December 2010. A note from Dwayne's Processing which I found on www.theotherphotographyblog.blogspot.com
"The last day of processing for all types of Kodachrome film will be December 30th, 2010. The last day Kodak will accept prepaid Kodachrome film in Europe is November 30th, 2010. Film that is not in our lab by noon on December 30th will not be processed."
Visit http://www.dwaynesphoto.com for more information, Dwaynes also offers processing of older discontinued films such as 127 and Disk.
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