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

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: 3, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Friday June 08 2018, @01:21AM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Friday June 08 2018, @01:21AM (#690145)

    I'd also vote for public/pay phones, although these days they would be more of an emergency service. Not everybody owns a cell phone, not everyone takes a cell phone with them, not everybody has charged or good batteries. It seems perfectly reasonable although they would not see loads of use. The only reason densely occupied areas don't already have something like this is because someone wants to sell moar cell phones.

    Some might point out technical issues with traditional style pay phones, but some more modern designs could address many of those issues.

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday June 08 2018, @03:57AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Friday June 08 2018, @03:57AM (#690192)

    Also without pay phones it's impossible to make an anonymous phone call.

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