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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 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.