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 bob_super on Friday June 08 2018, @04:19PM
> but the graining noise is terrible - in my opinion.
True. Conversely, thick brush strokes with too much paint haven't exactly hurt the value of Van Gogh paintings, and I really wish recent hollywood offerings had less perfect visuals in exchange for more scenario (the insane cost of the perfect visuals driving the "take no risk, don't offend anyone" narratives).