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Kodak Takes Kodachrome Away

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Kodak has announced that Kodachrome Film will officially retire this year, ending a 74-year run as a photography icon. According to the company, sales of Kodachrome, which became the world’s first commercially successful color film in 1935, have declined dramatically in recent years as photographers turned to newer Kodak Films or to the digital imaging technologies that Kodak pioneered. Today, Kodachrome Film represents just a fraction of one percent of Kodak’s total sales of still-picture films. Among the well-known professional photographers who used Kodachrome Film is Steve McCurry, whose...Read full article

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