Just shot my last fresh K40

[Angus]

Well I shot my last brand new cart of K40 this week. We were on a camping trip with friends, and I took along my last three fresh cartridges. Found ourselves in a gorgeous forest in bright sunlight and knowing it was my last chance to capture those greens in gorgeous Kodachrome (unless I go back with slide film) I finished my last cart there. It's in the mail now, indeed probably in Swizerland as we speak.

I still have a lot of frozen sound carts which I'll use over the next few months...just waiting for E64 to go on sale now...the end of an era...

[Joe Gioielli]

That sounds like a really cool way to use the last cart. Nature and good friends.

I'm going to use my last cart to film "Old" Florida tourist attraction, stuff that was here before Mickey Mouse. Considering how many feet of Super 8 was used to film these places by people on vacation, it seems like a fitting send off.

Remember, Koda is still going to be availabe in Regular 8mm. John Schwind said he'll keep selling as long as there is a market. So we can still shoot kodachrome if we wish. Just not in Super 8.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Joe

[Evan Kubota]

That sounds cool. I have 10 carts left - you know you can still buy more, right? I'm saving mine for a short that isn't written yet.

[Fergus J. Ó MaoilEoin]

Well I shot my last brand new cart of K40 this week. We were on a camping trip with friends, and I took along my last three fresh cartridges.

Funny, I just came back frrom a camping trip where I shot one of my last rolls of K40, too!

...just waiting for E64 to go on sale now...the end of an era...

I know. But I'm not sure if I'll bother too much with that new stuff. I have a feeling it won't have quite the "home movie" look that I want. I've never used Ektachrome, but it seems to look more like negative film transferred to video. Rather like filmed American television series before they started editing on tape in the eighties. And that's without mentioning the extra processing costs and the need for an 85B filter and - worst of all - manual exposure on most of my cameras, which I'm crap at.

Once my last rolls of K40 are gone, I expect to switch to Standard 8 Fomapan and maybe some Kodachrome, and also the black and white S8 stocks.

[Angus]

That sounds cool. I have 10 carts left - you know you can still buy more, right? I'm saving mine for a short that isn't written yet.

Yes you can still buy more but as things stand I have enough K40 sound carts in the freezer to last me a year or so...and probably by the end of next year processing of super 8 Kodacrhome will cease

So I'm not intending to use any more new K40 in super 8.

Once I've got an 85 filter for my two std 8mm cams I'll look into occasionally using K40 in that format...thanks to John scwhind!

[reflex]

Found ourselves in a gorgeous forest in bright sunlight and knowing it was my last chance to capture those greens in gorgeous Kodachrome I finished my last cart there.

Sounds fantastic. I was thinking the same thing last weekend - I shot my last rolls in the forest around a lake in the Rocky Mountains.

I can sadly declare my last Kodachrome shot to have been filmed with a stabilizer-mounted 4008zmII on a sunny mountain path, with a sea of green trees in every direction. I admit to holding the trigger for a couple of seconds past when I heard the tell-tale "end of roll" sound in the film advance.

No tears, though -- I'm itching to shoot Hr. Wittner's 100D.