Pickles by Brian Crane for November 03, 2012

I wonder what percent of people buy roll film anymore?

Ok, now I feel old…

Break it out and show it to him, Opal.

Now, now. Kodak sells digital cameras.

They stopped making Kodachrome…. and Kodak is getting out of the digital camera business as well. It is going to license the Kodak name to others.

What’s a magazine?

sdebarr – A magazine is a spring loaded ammunition carrier for a firearm. What idiot news reporters almost always call a ‘clip’ incorrectly. If you know enough to use proper terminology the ick factor has already rubbed off on you.

Kodak = A sad,sad story…

Yes it is sad that Kodak is gone……i for one would still buy their film. My camera w/film takes superior photos over my digital camera – Canon Photura takes the very best photos…..this is the down side of a throw-away society.

He‘s employed elsewhere. Just because those were fake, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

I agree that it’s a sad time. We almost lost Xerox a while back. Bausch & Lomb is not what it used to be. The ROC city has taken its lumps.

I have a Ricoh twin-lens reflex camera that’s about as old as I am. It’s one of those boxy things that has the viewfinder on the top of the unit. It takes either 120 film that makes a 6×6 cm. negative or 127 film that makes a 4×4 cm. slide. Everything on the camera is manual – the aperture, shutter speed, and it requires the use of a separate light meter. I can do some neat things with it that I can’t do with a digital camera, like open shutter work and double or multiple exposures. Film is getting harder and harder to find, though. There are almost no photography specialty stores left (there used to be a great place called, simply, The Camera Store just a twenty-minute bus ride away; it’s gone now). 35mm film isn’t that hard to get, but other types are a problem. Here’s what it looks like:

that ain’t half of it. you can now take anyone’s dna, extract present dna from cell samples, impregnate the sample with the hi-jacked dna, and use it as criminal evidence to convict anyone you want that their blood was at a crime scene.

I still have my kodak- I just don’t use it. I did however start printing digital pictures because my youngest daughter was upset that my albums didn’t have many pictures of her.

runar: But watch out for the paralax!

Opal, you’re shooting over his young skull full of mush. . .

Haha… Excellent!

xxx

Sad commentary on a once great corporation that failed to keep pace. They invented digital technology but then put their head in the sand, allowed Far Eastern companies to develop products, all to protect the film business. In other words, trying to force the clock to stand still led to a huge missed opportunity to dominate the future of photography and instead led to bankruptcy. A case study in failed management if ever I saw one.

The story of Kodak is a sad one. They made the mistake of not keeping up on technology and were left in the dust. I do love using a digital camera because you know right away if the picture turned out. That being said, we are turning into a throw away society. There are very few love letters that are written on paper anymore; music is almost all MP3. Is there going to be anything left for future generations of our generation?

Remember the song “In The Year 2525”?

‘Film’ is another business that is virtually no more. Like buggy whips. The world changes every day.

Another American Icon blown away in the wind! Sigh!

alittlebirdie said, about 9 hours ago: Remember the song “In The Year 2525”?

YEP! I SURE AS HE!! DO!