A groundbreaking film to photography when it was introduced, Kodachrome has finally been culled from the market by Kodak.

Most surprising of which is that it took so long.

While there still are people shooting this medium, it is for novelty only, as opposed to it offering any tangible benefit towards the image. Resolution, ISO-sensitivity, color and image quality have long been surpassed by digital.

Apparently, there is only one lab in the US still processing the film! And, according to Yahoo news, “unlike any other color film, Kodachrome is purely black and white when exposed. The three primary colors that mix to form the spectrum are added in three development steps rather than built into its layers.

Kodak’s gist is here

The answer to the simple question “Where can I download PDF manuals for my Nikon products?” is given by Nikon’s US website with a pretty comprehensive collection of all their manuals.

All nicely sitting in one place!

D-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s!

Here’s the link.

The floodgates are open.

Both Nikon and Canon have shown their capability to build video into their DSLRs.

Granted, the implementations are far from perfect, but they’ve done it.

But: except for picture quality, they have thrown Camcorders back 15 or more years back in time, when there was hardly any image stabilization and back practically forever with lacking autofocus.

We want more. We want these faults to be fixed. We want high quality video on a video recorder which is at least as capable as conventional camcorders. And the biggie: WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO USE OUR DSLR LENSES ON THIS!

Do you realize what this means?

The death of DSLR!

If we can have perfectly capable Liveview, the use of the viewfinder will drop dramatically. And with that the neccessity of the mirror mechanism. And with that the mirror slap.

Yay, quiet high-quality photography at last?! This will revolutionize wedding photography!

Who will be first: Canon or Nikon? Thank goodness we’ve got stiff competition!