RIP Mr. George Eastman

[ddbowdoin]

A sad day in the photographic world!

http://www.itp.net/590208-kodak-to-stop-selling-camera-film

 

[wiigirl]

He will be missed

 

[Doombuggy13]

Sadly, I'm from the Rochester, NY area where Kodak started and was the hub of all industry for years. It's just sad to see "The Big Yellow Box" dying before our eyes. Unnecesessarily I might add as Kodak developed digital photography but insisted that it would not take over film so they just sat there and watched everyone else capitalize on digital technology. Now in bankruptcy, I think I'm seeing the final twitches of a now dead, once great company.

 

[Nemo14]

Sad indeed. I do enjoy my digital camera, and many people today don't even remember what it was like before the digital era, but there's really something specail about film, and I for one will miss that.

 

[ddbowdoin]

Sad indeed. I do enjoy my digital camera, and many people today don't even remember what it was like before the digital era, but there's really something specail about film, and I for one will miss that.

I think with today's technology, specifically higher end DSLR's match the quality of 35MM film... maybe not the color profiles but you can replicate in post. Where film shines is in larger formats... when you pull that 120 or 4x5 slide on a light table it destroys anything from even a 4000 dollar DSLR

 

[ddbowdoin]

Sadly, I'm from the Rochester, NY area where Kodak started and was the hub of all industry for years. It's just sad to see "The Big Yellow Box" dying before our eyes. Unnecesessarily I might add as Kodak developed digital photography but insisted that it would not take over film so they just sat there and watched everyone else capitalize on digital technology. Now in bankruptcy, I think I'm seeing the final twitches of a now dead, once great company.

yeah, not many people realize they invented the digital sensor in the 1980's... it's more a convenience factor they didn't take into account

 

[Doombuggy13]

RIP KODAK!

 

[jlevis]

I think with today's technology, specifically higher end DSLR's match the quality of 35MM film... maybe not the color profiles but you can replicate in post. Where film shines is in larger formats... when you pull that 120 or 4x5 slide on a light table it destroys anything from even a 4000 dollar DSLR

Yeah, back in the day I shot 3 1/4 X 4 1/4 Ektachrome lantern slides. More than one pathologist told me the quality of that film was so high they could make a diagnosis from it. Not so from a 35mm.

 

[ddbowdoin]

Yeah, back in the day I shot 3 1/4 X 4 1/4 Ektachrome lantern slides. More than one pathologist told me the quality of that film was so high they could make a diagnosis from it. Not so from a 35mm.

I shoot 6x7 120 medium format, usually Fuji Velvia transparency film... but I've tossed a few Kodak Ektar through the camera and the film is nice, it will be missed