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That moment I remember I’ll never get to shoot Kodachrome 🫤
I'm not sure what they ever did with the patents. I can see where they might find a way to make small batches, but I think the world has moved on. Just do the best with what we have.
Oh, that’s not the issue (the patents). The problem is Kodachrome was only economically viable to develop at scale, because it was a complicated development process with chemicals that expired relatively quickly, and at present they don’t even make the chemicals anymore. As a result, Kodak would either need:
• To somehow improve the development process
• Or have enough demand for processing Kodachrome film to make it worth their while to start making the chemicals again and set up a development plant for processing the film
Processing of small batches will definitely never happen, for these reasons
All good points. However, I never say never. In my lifetime so much has been available to me that would not have been because somebody said it was economically not viable "at a given time."
That’s true, shouldn’t say “never,” but at the same time if it does happen it’ll probably be because of one of those two reasons (a better development process, or a huge resurgence in interest in Kodachrome to make it worth Kodak’s while to reintroduce it, the chemicals for it, and process it), or more likely a combination of the two