In those days, Kodak was always my favourite brand of film. I used to prefer Kodak to Fuji or Agfa because I reckon the Kodak colours came out more intense or brighter. Do you remember watching Kodak ads in the cinema or on TV ads, where they talked about the "Kodak moment", meaning a rare, one-time moment that is captured with a photo, or should have been captured with a photo ?
"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 the so-called "subtractive" method., in contrast to earlier additive "screenplate" methods such as Autochrome and Dufaycolor. Kodachrome remained the oldest brand of color film. As digital photography progressively reduced the demand for film in the 2000s, Kodachrome sales steadily declined and in June 2009 Eastman Kodak announced the end of Kodachrome production.
Inspired by this film, "Kodachrome" was also the name of a very popular song written by Paul Simon (of the singing duo Simon & Garfunkel) around 1973. Can't remember the tune? Here's a treat .... have a listen.
I loved this song as a teenager, and it still brings back very pleasant memories.
During the early years of the 21st century, there was fierce debate among professional photographers on the relative advantages of lens-based cameras over their digital counterparts. I guess in the early generations of digital cameras, it was true that professional lens-based SLRs were much better, but with the rapid advance of digital technology and the ever increasing resolution (in Megapixels) of DSLRs, I find this debate has largely gone silent.
BTW, here are some pictures of old cameras that I recently saw in a shop in HCMC ...
Do share your own photographic adventures.
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