[Don Joe]

Argh, argh, argh!

[Texaggie79]

uh.....yeah.....sure

[Crowcreek]

No sweat, partner. . .

Good Bye Kodak -- Hello Fuji, Konica, ect.

[mlo]

Is there an actual piece of news you are ranting about?

[freedomlover]

Pictures, please.

[Lazamataz]

Kodak is a buggywhip industry. So is Xerox.

Thusly, I left Rochester.

[Timesink]

Well, if anyone was still questioning whether or not to short Kodak stock, they have their answer now. This company is barreling towards Chapter 11 faster than Bill Clinton towards a pair of 36Ds.

[counterrevolutionary]

Sob...those poor little emulsions...silver halide running in the gutters...the horror...the horror....

[Timesink]

(Note to those reading this chart from THE FUTURE!: This chart is dynamically generated every time this page loads, using data up to and including the current day. What we're seeing on March 11 isn't what you're seeing in 2025. Of course, knowing Yahoo, they'll change the URL for their stock charts a week after I post this anyway, and all you'll see is a big empty rectangle. FR really needs to start letting people load graphics onto the FR servers ... not just that stupid "Caption This Image" section, but for anything.)

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Digital photography is still much inferior to film photography, no question. Just like film photography was much inferior to oil paint portraits and landscapes in its infancy. Once film photography became as good or better, painting didn't go away, but veered off into a creative realm of the imagination that couldn't be replicated by film photography, while realistic oil paint portraits became a very specialized nich market. Expect this same pattern to repeat itself.

[Richard Kimball]

Canon EOS D30. Haven't shot film in over a year.

Photo-sho-o-o-p, you give us those nice bright colors...

[SpookBrat]

Never thought I would be debating film at FR. I have a Pentax K1000. Fuji is ALL I will ever use! Fuji 100 especially for pics of my kids in Texas wildflowers. :)

[monkeyshine]

I'm more concerned about being able to buy Polaroid film for the medium and large format cameras. How are you supposed to do a test shot? I sure as heck am not going to spend $30,000 for a digital Hasselblad back.

[oprahstheantichrist]

Betrayed by The Great Yellow Father.

Thanks for posting this. I'm horrified. Sickened. My grandfather is rolling in his grave even as I type. I have K25 slides of his taken before I was born (I'm 44) and the color is still perfect.

K25 was the original color film, correct? Dating back to 1939? I remember that it has (had) four actual emulsions, one black & white, plus one for each of the primary colors of light. Back in my college days I worked for a short time in a K14 lab running the processor, 8mm on one side, 35mm on the other. It was something. Forgot exactly how many tanks the machine had, but with four separate developers plus rinses, fix, and bleach baths for each, it was easily in the twenties. Huge machine. Must have taken a while to pay for itself.

Good luck finding any. And what of National Geographic? They were strictly K25. Have they gone digital (sold out) as well?

There will never be another Tri-X, but does Ilford still make a good B & W?

So it begs the question: Why? Why the big changes? Were all these films environmentally incorrect, or were they just not profitable?

[antaresequity]

Isnt some of this EPA related? The processing has been abandon for certain films becasue it cost to much to meet the EPA regs on it...I think K-12 (?) Kodachrome is very toxic.

That is why its much easier to have E-6 developed. Just a guess

[AlaskaErik]

No problem...I went digital. Kodak is the like Lockheed coming out with the Electra while Boeing was coming out with the 707. Very few people remember the Electra.

[ValerieUSA]

I'm the enemy - I've gone digital.

[Ditter]

You think you have trouble, Estee Lauder discontinued my shade of makeup.

[Valin]

The reason is Digital Photography. Within ten years traditional photography (ie film based) will go the way of cyanotype, photogravure etc. The good news is (once you get over the fact that there's a piece of glass between you and the image) a person can now concentrate on what to photograph and not so much on the how.
If I were you I'd buy lots and lots of your favorite film and store it in the freezer as the price is only going to go up.