Ultgar, I'm in the same boat as you. I've got Canon A-1's and just about every FD lens Canon ever made including their mirror lens. Worst money I ever spent since now all of this stuff that I paid a fortune for is frankly worthless today with the advent of digital cameras. At least $50,000 down the toilet. MAN DID THAT HURT. Don't even know where you can buy Kodachrome today.
Sadly, as FloorPaint pointed out, Kodachrome is long gone. I personally thought that Kodak were too quick to discontinue it. Sure, it’s use had declined, but I think sales figures would have bottomed out.
The U.K. saw the same thing with monochrome film. Figures initially declined as folks went digital, but the “art” photographers kept using it, and sales have subsequently increased.
I don’t think there was any other colour film that recorded reds as accurately and with such depth as Kodachrome could, or that could withstand long term storage to the same degree.
Sadly, it’s only now that we realise how good it was in that regard. I’m still using photographs taken by my Father 60 years ago on Kodachrome, and they are still good enough to publish. E6 processed Ektachrome of the same vintage, good as it was at the time, has all faded to some degree.
dnschmidt - your lenses are not worthless. A good lens is always a good lens. Although some of todays lenses are “o.k.” optically, the (often) plastic construction is pretty crappy, and when the equally crappy autofocus motors burn out, they really are worthless.
Hang on to your good stuff, use it on a digital body if you wish, but once in a while use a film camera and and enjoy creating something more permanent than any digital image.
