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Kodachrome shooter here, let me debunk some myths.
YES Kodachrome colors were fucking awesome, all versions of it. It was one of my favorite films to shoot of ALL TIME, ever. The way it rendered reds and oranges was nothing short of magical.
However, there were E6 films at the time that could almost do the same thing without having to mail the film back to Kodak or send it to Kansas for processing. Old-emulsion Velvia 50 the original competitor to Kodachrome would give you much of the same color rendition. V100 could do it too. Ektachrome E100VS could almost do it but in my experience it would saturate everything across the board, like having Provia 400x and Velvia 50 on the same emulsion.
Those films were also cheaper than Kodachrome and easier to develop, which led to its demise. Kodachrome was too expensive to produce and develop at a time when Kodak was about to go out of business so they killed if off and if you ask me it probably helped save the company.
Now, would I like it to come back? Absolutely, and I'll take lots of trucker snaps with it, but realistically K14 is not coming back. The development process makes nuclear waste look like cupcakes. It's a very long process to develop the film and not enough people were using it to sustain that cost, where as C-41 and BW films are cheap as all fuck to make.
Glad to see 3200 tmax come back, I'll get a brick soon
