Kodachrome is history. Eastman Kodak Co. stopped manufacturing the chemicals needed to process Kodachrome film the last business day of 2010.
I remember Kodachrome back in the days of film. Super-rich color on slides. Have a lot of slide shots made from that film. And Tri-X 400, great for sharp black-and-white shots. And Gold200, and the film that preceded Gold (can't remember the name offhand). All Kodak film. Upstate NY was and is Kodak country, and Kodak film was all you ever used.
Not that I want to go back. Picture-taking was brutally expensive - the cost of film and processing, and then if you got a really good shot, you'd have to either pay for cropping or develop it yourself (which was only practical for black-and-white shots, and even then it took time and money).
Digital opened up a whole new world of photography, and made experimentation and trial and error, more accessible. And the editing software sure beats the darkroom most of the time. I haven't used film in four or five years.
But I wonder sometimes if a particular digital shot might have been sharper or stronger with film.
With Kodachrome gone, there's one less way to find out.
