ABSTRACT
When Paul Simon sang, “Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away,” little
did he know that before long they would take it away forever. The song was released in 1973 and was named after the Kodak 35 mm
Kodachrome film that had become the standard for print photography
and would continue to be so over the next several decades. I’m certain the singer never stopped to think that eventually film itself would be
taken away from the world of still photos! That was never even a possi-
bility back in 1973. Kodak kept their 1975 prototype for the digital camera under wraps for almost 20 years. During that time, the standard
for location photography was true to 35 mm film-right up until the
advent of digital photography in the late 1990s. How technology has continued to alter the way we capture images!
