This is your last chance to smile for the camera, holding special film.
Last month, the Eastman Kodak Company announced the closing of the manufacture of its most senior film, KODACHROME. After 74 years of production, digital has taken over. I suppose you can call that progress but, I call it the end of an era in my family life.
Picture-taking has been a family tradition for us, beginning with the E. K. black box that my parents owned. Lots of good snapshots as they built a family history of black and white prints that remain clear to this day.
After W.W. II, I took a giant leap from the black box to a 35mm Argus camera with Kodachrome film. I can say safely that I have taken thousands of slides over the years. However, that too has passed, as Dear Wife and I are into digital to a limited degree.
Just recently, I took hundreds of slides I still had and enjoyed, reducing the collection to about 250 slides, tossing away those that were redundant (you know, 14 views of Niagara Falls, the family cats, unrecognizable scenes and so on), and gave them to my son. His adult children will enjoy seeing Daddy's younger life in picture form.
So, dear reader, regretfully I say goodbye to KODACHROME. Thank you, Eastman Kodak, for the opportunity to record in film some of my family history in a very colorful way.
More later.
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Dad, I still have my camera with film, just in case it becomes a valuable antique!
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