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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 Joe Desertrat on Friday June 08 2018, @10:40PM
If one is trying to get a perfect image as a representation of something, say a flower image for a field guide, I think digital beats film hands down. An awful lot of photography though is people trying to create "art", whether they (or anyone else) calls it that or not. Images are edited to look like what people want them to look like. People like the look of film, and there is of course a long history of film photography that is still a base for what photographs "should" look like. There are a lot of software programs that have options to try to emulate the results of various films. I doubt that any of them match the result of the film they are trying to emulate. In the end, it comes down to what you like.