The Last Roll of Kodachrome...

Fascinating documentary about a professional photographer who got the last roll of Kodachrome film ever produced.  The photographer is Steve McCurry, a famous National Geographic photographer.


Back in my film photography days, I used a lot of Kodachrome (and also Ektachrome). Digital cameras (especially the incredibly capable cameras starting 3 or 4 years ago) have completely upended photography. As I've noted before, for myself the freedom to take as many photos as I want has been the biggest impact. With film, I carefully rationed each frame, as they were expensive. With my modern digital cameras I can take thousands of photos and store them on a single SD card, or even hours of video – and the incremental cost to me is precisely zero...