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Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback?

posted by martyb on Thursday June 07 2018, @09:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the Film-At-11-Maybe...-Or-Maybe-Not... dept.

All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us writes:

It's easy to think that film cameras are gone forever. But Marketplace has a short story about how Kodak is apparently close to re-releasing the Ektachrome 100 film line. Tweet as covered in the story.

There's news that Kodak is about to bring back Ektachrome 100, a popular slide film for analog cameras, that's been gone for five years. Launched in the 1940s, Ektachrome was one of the first commercially available color films and became the "preferred choice of magazine and advertising shooters." (It was a favorite of National Geographic.)

As far as I can tell, the development has been hanging for quite some time as here is one among several stories back from January of 2017 stating it was coming back. I guess software isn't the only industry that suffers from vaporware potential. Marketplace's question could also be asked here: What pieces of discontinued technology do you wish would come back?

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:07PM (4 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:07PM (#690085) Homepage Journal

    There a shop in Portland that sells it

    Using my itoys camera brought my eye back. I'm going to buy a few rolls of slide film then do some industrial photography- machines, bridges industrial plants and the like

    I'm going to buy a new slide projector. I e never been happy with the one I've got

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Snow on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:26PM (2 children)

    by Snow (1601) on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:26PM (#690093) Journal

    I always liked slide projectors. I liked the sound of changing pictures. I liked the circular slide holder thing on top. Back then showing off pictures was an event. You'd invite people over, make snacks, dim the lights and force them to look at your shitty pictures of your family trip to Milwaukee.

    • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:36PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:36PM (#690100)

      Finally! A plausible explanation of your, um, orientation!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @02:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @02:05PM (#690318)

      Hey, when you've been to the Dells and rode the duck boats, you GOTTA show that off!

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by mechanicjay on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:56PM

    by mechanicjay (7) <mechanicjayNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:56PM (#690110) Homepage Journal

    Yeah and Fuji is slowly winding down it's entire film division, cancelling a couple stocks ever years. There is a lot of fear that they're going to shutdown Provia and Velvia production in the not-so-distant future, which would leave ZERO color reversal film stocks on the market.

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