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The End of an Era (The Death of Film)

Kodak has recently decided to stop the manufacture of Kodachrome film.


Here is Kodak's statement right from the website

"Eastman Kodak Company announced on June 22, 2009 that it will discontinue sales of KODACHROME Color Film this year, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. 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 other films or digital capture. Today, KODACHROME represents just a fraction of one percent of Kodak's total sales of still-picture films.

Despite all its outstanding features, KODACHROME involves a highly complex development process that led photographers to experiment with and adopt newer KODAK films that deliver outstanding color images through a simpler workflow.

Although KODACHROME has very distinct characteristics and no film will give the exact same results, current users are encouraged to try other Kodak films. Kodak continues to bring innovative new film products to market, having released seven new professional films -- over the last three years alone. "

Here's a good article from Arstechnica on Kodachrome.

I think Nikon Needs to step their Limited Edition Gold Camera Game up.

As some you you may or may not know. Nikon recently put out a limited edition Gold D60. The camera is basically a D60 with gold coloring where there would normally be silver coloring on the camera body. There is also a "Gold Edition" Strap.




This camera is all well and good but I've seen far better limited edition gold cameras and I think it would be amazing to have cool gold digital SLR's like these cameras....


PENTAX LX



CANON F1



NIKON FM Gold



LEICA M3 Gold



PS .CLick on the pictures for more info on these fun cameras.

The Nikon System

Nikon D5000

When looking for information on the latest and greatest in digital cameras we usually go to

Digital Photography Review

They are a site that boasts...."Here you will find all the latest digital photography and imaging news, reviews of the latest digital cameras and accessories, the most active discussion forums, a large selection of sample galleries, a digital camera database and buyers guide and the most comprehensive database of digital camera features and specifications. We believe in quality, original, unbiased content."

It's a good site with a wide spectrum of info and manufacturers. There are sites with more specific information based on manfacturer but we prefer this one because of its unbiased approach.

The have a Preview/Review of the new Nikon D5000. (click on the link to check it out)

New Seminars....Coming Soon

We know it's been awhile since we had a seminar but fear not we will be having some very soon. The reason why we haven't had one in a while is that we are revamping the format of the seminars. We hope to go a little more in depth bu breaking the seminars up into separate sessions. For example the Basic Seminar we have now will be broken into two more detailed parts. We are doing this so we can give everyone more information and give everyone more individual attention.

We are also working on some new seminars. In the works we have a studio lighting seminar which will be taught by local Photographer Jeffrey T. Barnes and we also have a zoo outing planned where the seminar attendees will be able to saple the latest and greatest in Tamron lenses.

So please be patient with us. We are working long and hard to answer all of your questions about digital photography.

If you have any questions feel free to email us
thebox@cameraspot.com

Camera Truck

For all you film diehards


CAMERA TRUCK