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 Friday June 08 2018, @01:33AM
I'd also suggest a replaceable non-proprietary battery.
Having a seperate PDA/Phone also has the advantage that one does not look like a freaking fool talking in to something large enough that that it really could be called a tablet.
But if you turn off communications, then how do they track everything you do? :P