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Kodachrome film first hit the photography market in 1936 and on June 22, 2009, Kodak officially retired Kodachrome color transparency film after 74 years. Any photographer who ever took a picture has fond memories of this film and probably a few thousand 35mm Kodachrome slides stashed in a closet somewhere. Paul Simon immortalized Kodachrome film and the Nikon camera with this song in 1973. Lyrics to Kodachrome: When I think back on all the crap I’ve learned in high school It’s a wonder I can think at all Though my lack of education hasn’t hurt me much I can read the writings on the walls Kodachrome, they give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away If you took all the girls I knew when I was single Brought ‘em all together for one night I know they’d never match my sweet imagination Everything looks worse in black and white Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away . . .