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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: 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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