What I Won't Miss About Kodachrome

I sent twelve rolls of Kodachrome off to Dwayne's for processing; Dwayne's, of course, is the only place in the world that can still process Kodachrome, so there's no real choice in the matter.

Much of the returned film is badly scratched, mostly horizontal scratches running length-wise along the film, with other scratches thrown in for good measure. Infrared cleaning in the scanning process is troublesome with Kodachrome and often does more damage than it cures.

In a sky area like this (where the scratches are most visible) it's relatively easy to clean up in Photoshop. In areas with actual detail, it's a real pain. If I'm going to spend a half hour processing each image, I might as well be shooting digital.

One thing I won't miss when Kodachrome is gone: not being able to do my own processing.