They've finally taken my Kodachrome Away...

I'm a huge Paul Simon (and Simon & Garfunkel) music fan, and I'll probably admit that Simon's "Kodachrome" steered me at least a little towards Nikon when I was determining what camera company I wanted to buy into when converting to digital.

The Seattle Times reports today that Kodak has pulled the plug on Kodachrome. Now, there's only one place that develops it any more -- not exactly the one-hour processing that we can get with other films. But before you stock your freezer with any last rolls you may scramble to find, Dwayne's photo has only agreed to keep processing it through 2010.

I've never shot a roll, and it looks like I never will. Still, I'm a sentimental sucker and I'm a little saddened by this news.

Crop Factor...

Just a quick post to ponder the difference between 17mm on my 'new' F4s and on my D2H (with a 1.5x 'crop factor'). The difference in the distortion/skewing is very noticable. I'm not sure if it's just a different viewing angle, or if it's really as noticable between the cameras. I'm going to have to do something more 'scientific'...

(D2H)

(F4)

Any color/exposure differences come about because I let the 1-hour photo lab scan the negative for me. I'd ideally, too, like to get the processing a little closer to each other, too.

Still, it's very weird seeing the difference in the distortion with the same lens.