Your Kodak moments – in pictures

Santa Monica, California: Everyone is always making fun of me for carrying a disposable camera everywhere I go. But I'm really nostalgic for 1995 and I don't like digital cameras. It's my own little rebellion against new technologies. Disposable cameras actually make good pictures and I'm really into this one. I took it with a Kodak disposable camera, and I called it 'The seagull staring at the sea'
Photograph: Cocovan

A beautiful moment Photograph: Teodora Barzakova

A memorable day Photograph: Sam Gloor

Dover, UK: An analogue picture of my brother skimming stones at Dover beach Photograph: Cariad Martin

Chair lifts Photograph: Alan Mcllrath

Harare, Zimbabwe: Children at sos4children's village in 1998 Photograph: Anna McNamara

This photo was taken on an old Pentax Spotmatic, with a roll of Kodak 35mm film in the New Year. Dad, my brother and myself had a wonderful day out with our horse William. This particular shot captures the moment when we decided not to go any further and stop at the pub Photograph: Niamh Darlington

Early morning January 2012 Photograph: Wendy Kitchener

Gullfoss, Iceland Photograph: Aurelien Thomas

Brighton, UK: Hard not to take a great picture at sunset on Brighton beach Photograph: Cariad Martin

Hole Cottage at night. This photo was taken on my honeymoon. It was a long 10-minute exposure on a beautifully calm night with a full moon providing all the light. We had to sit pretty still, Gatwick Airport is nearby, hence all the light trails Photograph: Tom Leighton/Flickr

I shoot Kodak Portra 160VC through a 1975 Mamiya M645 medium-format camera. As a photographer I always have something in the Jeep for those 'Kodak moments'. This was certainly one of them Photograph: Pete Ferling

In the spring of 1981 my dad took mum and I, in the final stages of her fight with cancer, to watch Prince Charles play polo for his new beau. I had just turned six. I don't remember it too well but remember dad saying how Lady Di became demonstrably upset, perhaps for the first time publicly, by the press onslaught Photograph: Chris Miller

Kansai, Japan: Taken on Kodak Elitechrome colour film, then cross-processed. This picture was taken on a train line that runs through the hills between Osaka and Kobe, where I lived for a couple of years Photograph: Ando Kansai

My favourite colour film at the moment is Kodak Ektar 100, which just has wonderful vivid colours like these Photograph: Antony J Shepherd/Flickr

Fethiye, Turkey: I bought a Kodak disposable underwater camera last summer Photograph: Ekin Kucuk

Kodak film is all about summer trips to the seaside Photograph: Tabsinthe/Flickr

Kodak should be remembered for putting the complex art of photography into everyone's hands. Enabling anyone to pick up a camera saves a moment forever. Without it being that simple, my grandmother might never have picked up my late grandfather's camera and taken this photo for us to remember him by Photograph: Neil Fitzgerald/Flickr

Leamington Spa, UK Photograph: Kevin Mingaye

Alberta, Canada: Taken on a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye in the summer of 1988, while I was working at Chateau Lake Louise Photograph: Tim Holtorf

My Kodak moment by Trace Kaiser Photograph: Trace Kaiser

Florence, Italy: My first visit to the country with my fiancée Photograph: Nathan Sharp

My last sunset in England whilst on a ferry to France Photograph: Claye Gnabroux

Victoria, Australia: This was an example of how Kodachrome colours were not subject to fading as other processes were. This is my favourite Kodachrome slide, taken by my father in the Australian summer of 1945 with a 35mm Leica. My mother and I are pictured outside our house at Badger Creek near Healesville Photograph: Stephen J Fleay

New Zealand: Fishermen shot on Kodak TMAX NC 400 film Photograph: Jonathan M McGee

Oslo, Norway: Two children ran past me in the street and veered off up some steps I had previously not noticed. My instinct was to snap their ascent as I had noticed that the steps lead towards a curious looking door Photograph: Jamie Tilley

I took this photo whilst trying to photograph the Perseid meteor shower, although the meteors didn't quite give the performance hoped I still got a few good images and had a memorable night back at home. The evening was spent freezing in a freshly bailed field, catching up with friends and my brother (who is the subject), till late in the early hours. The image was taken on Kodak Tri-x 120 film, one of my favourite black and white films Photograph: Alexander Murrin

River Wear, Sunderland: Looking upriver from the East End Fish Quay. Taken on a 5x4 camera in July 2009 Photograph: Andy Μartin

Norfolk, UK: Taken a few years ago, this was shot on a roll of budget Kodak film, Color Plus through an old Minolta SLR my grandad had given to me. We were out driving in July, looking for a nice setting to take pictures when we came across this field. The sun was being obscured by a haze that had rolled in off the sea, so the light was very soft and lovely Photograph: Tristan Holden

New South Wales, Australia: Taken with Kodachrome at Surf Beach, Bateman's Bay in January 1957. The group are, from left to right; Sadie Hilton, her daughter Jan, Mrs Hunter, Mrs King and my mother Muffy Young. I was 12 and used my father’s Tamron camera to take this morning beach scene, although the sky looks grey it was a warm summe'rs day. We met these friends at Blandford House. a seaside guesthouse, most years between 1956 and 1964 Photograph: Adrian Young

Ada Bojana, Montenegro: Taken with 79's Olympus OM in 2005 Photograph: Leila Lex M

Sri Lanka: The family. I took all these shots on various foreign film shoots during my years as a documentary director/producer. I always carried two Nikon FMs and I always used Kodak slide film. On the left of the Sri Lankan family group the young boy is holding a Kodachrome Box Photograph: David A Wright

Sweden: This photo was taken on Kodak Tri-X 400 film on an old Olympus OM20 at friends' Åsa & Paul's wedding last August. It's the happy couple processing along after the ceremony, with the groom caught with his head in a cloud of rice Photograph: Dominic Bailey

Brighton, UK: The moment my son was happy to embrace the cold and powerful Brighton waves. Taken with a Nikonos V on Kodak Portra VC 400 Photograph: Fraser Morrison

Ventnor Beach, Isle of Wight: Boxing Day 2011 Photograph: David Champion

We artists miss Kodak Super8 with processing for just £12 Photograph: Patricia Shrigley

Zaragoza Spain: Taken on Kodak film in 1995 Photograph: José Luis Martín

US: My maternal great grandmother worked at Eastman Kodak when she lived in the US. This was taken at some point around the great war Photograph: Paul Baldwin

Bryce Canon, Utah, US: Taken with Canon EOS3 film camera and scanned in via a Canoscan FS2710 film scanner. For a long time you could always rely on Kodak to bring out the reds and yellows in your pictures. Kodak seemed to favour the autumn and summer hues, where their rival Fuji seemed to favour the greens and blues of winter Photograph: Steve Robbins

Albufera Lake, Valencia: November sunset Photograph: Wanda Jarabo Martin

Bondi Beach: portra 160vc Photograph: hurtingbombz/Flickr

One of the most beautiful mornings in my life Photograph: ursulek/Flickr

Taken last year on Kodak Tri-X 400, this is the first negative I ever developed myself, literally the only frame that survived as it unspooled itself in the tank and stuck together due to my sausage-fingered attempts at loading it Photograph: By Back, and to the left/Flickr

Western Mongolia: Taken at 1800m at Tolbo Nuur lake, using Kodak 200 film. I love this photo, both for the memories of the trip, the placid reflections from the crystal clear lake and the way the grain from the film gives it a vintage quality in a way that no digital camera could Photograph: cypherspace/Flickr

Alice: I just had the most wonderful hour going through old pictures, it is amazing how many shots were on kodak (lots on fuji too). This one was taken of my daughter Alice about 19 years ago, I had this picture stuck on the fridge for so many years, I loved her yellow raincoat with the flowers, it was her favourite Photograph: Justine Gordon/Flickr

Largs, Ayrshire, UK: Muffin the mule, gran, mum & me on an outing c.1960. My favourite childhood photograph. I remember my dad's Kodak Brownie, which he must have used to take this picture Photograph: sheilamcw/Flickr

Kenya: Hitch hiking with my friend Jim in 1973 taken with my sister's Kodak Instamatic. Here is Jim standing by the sign near the Voi turnoff Photograph: ART NAHPRO/Flickr

Step into the light: Taken during soundcheck for an Iron and Wine/Calexico show in 2006. Shot on a Bessaflex TM camera using Kodak Tri-X pushed to 3200 Photograph: Stephen Dowling/Flickr