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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?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:27PM (7 children)
Proper no-nonsense beige computer cases. Without blue or rainbow colored LEDs. Made of steel. I mean wow it's like "any color you want as long as it is black". Ug. And I don't mean some flamboyant gaming case with a white fake door on the front.
The handful still floating around on various web stores look mostly like old stock and lack sufficient ventilation for newer motherboards. Would probably need replacement power supplies too. On eBay anything beige is automatically labeled "vintage".
What is so wrong with beige?!
(Score: 4, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:34PM (1 child)
Krylon has your back. Think of the black as primer.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:46PM
I've considered that, but painting never comes out right for me. Make messes, dust gets stuck in stuff and all.
Suppose I could take something to a professional, but if I'm going to bother doing something like that it might just work better to get one of the "vintage" beige ATX cases and have someone drill extra ventilation holes. I'm sure there are places that can do metal drilling like that, but never got around to searching.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:44PM (2 children)
No way. I've lost dozens of fingers to the unfinished sharp edges inside those things : P I prefer modern case features over old style any day. You'll have better luck buying a case and painting it. Also, a good case is 100$+ now. Anything under 50$ will probably be aluminum. Newegg has a filter to show you steel cases only. But i think it's worth mentioning that not all steel is equal. If it's too thin then it's just as junk as aluminum.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday June 07 2018, @10:53PM (1 child)
I know what you are talking about :) many early clone AT cases and early cheap ATX cases had sharp edges. But most of the later beige ATX cases, especially retail non-OEM cases, were perfectly fine. But that has zilch to do with color.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Friday June 08 2018, @07:40AM
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday June 08 2018, @06:04PM (1 child)
Beige is that ugly color your parents computers and monitors had. All old beige equipment I've seen looks like trash. The yellowing from age thing just killed the entire beige market. Out with the beige! In with the black! I'd also go with Tie-Dyed looking cases, before I would a beige one.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Friday June 08 2018, @06:43PM
Beige is not ugly. What color is your couch? Solid black? How about your kitchen table? Solid black? How about your potted plants? Solid black pots with blue LEDs?
The original darker "beige" is an earth tone that is generally pleasing to the eye. A lot of research went in to that when Apple released the original Macintosh. Somewhere along the line "beige" lightened up and became more of an ivory color but people still call it beige.
Yellowing is the result of crappy fire retardant mixed in with the plastic that yellows when exposed to too much heat or sunlight. If a beige computer turned yellow, it was because someone took shitty care of it. There is zilch reason why a white/beige case could not done better today.
Black plastic is CHEAP plastic that stinks of shitty manufacturing.
Not even iOmega blue? I vaguely recall one manufacturer (Sony?) briefly made cases that color.
And yet, every now and then pink cases turn up! Yeish.