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To: DUMBGRUNT
Interesting history.

Even more interesting is that roll paper film, the product that launched Eastman-Kodak, was actually invented by a gentleman farmer named David Henderson Houston in Dakota Territory who sold or was cheated out of the patent (depending whose story you believe) by founder George Eastman.

So the irony is that they are currently left with basically just the product that launched the company, albeit in a technologically advanced form.

29 posted on 06/10/2021 8:32:36 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman
” So the irony is that they are currently left with basically just the product that launched the company, albeit in a technologically advanced form.”

Ironically, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975.

33 posted on 06/10/2021 8:56:17 AM PDT by Flag_This
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I still own but have not used in years a Mamiya medium format camera.

I traded my complete darkroom years ago for an Imsai 8080, not the famous one with the LEDs.

Dreamed of and played with different graphics programs, now widely available I don’t use it enough to remember the basic commands.

Tri-X pushed and long exposures with a cable release... FUN!

I picked up an OM2n because the exposure is read off the film with the shutter open... more fun!

Today a nothing burger.


39 posted on 06/10/2021 9:44:40 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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