Kodak to stop selling traditional cameras in U.S.

Reuters | January 13, 2004

[Old Professer]

It'd be nice if the shutter was synchronized with your trigger finger, too.

[Old Professer]

Tip: The picture has to be in your head before it's in the camera.

[Wright is right!]

"The problem is that you have to mix your chemicals, heat them to the right temperature, load the film into a tank in the dark then develop the film, taking care to observe the 3:15 second developing time within 5 seconds, then bleach the film, fix the film, wash and stabilize the film. Then it must be dried. Oh, the used chemistry can't be dumped. It first has to be processed to remove the residual silver from the silver halides in the film."

Which is why, back in the days when I shot for money, I always took the film to a local commercial processor who would do a film-only job for me for $2 a roll, 35 or 120. Then I made all my own prints. You'd have a hard time justifying the cost of a film lab when you can get all the strips done you like for 2 clams a pop.

If you do develop your own fillum, then you'd best have a whole bunch to run thru at one time, because gearing up IS the PITA.

Michael

[bc2]

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[Behind Liberal Lines]

I have a lot of respect for the products and history of Kodak, but I have to wonder if we don't have a modern day version of a buggy whip factory here.

[The Mayor]

Thanks bc2.. Late Bump!

[Aquinasfan]

Tip: The picture has to be in your head before it's in the camera.

LOL! That's true. But it's hard to restrain the old trigger finger, especially when you're shooting kids.

[RightWingConspirator]

I see Kodak was dropped from the Dow-Jones industrial average today. Isn't that just too bad. I guess their obsession with "diversity" has finally triumphed over business sense.

I had sent them a note last year requesting their side of the story about their firing of an employee who complained about Kodak's HR "diversity team" sending out pro-homosexual emails to all employees. They sent back a terse note telling me that they "don't comment on internal HR policies or activities". At that point I emailed them back telling them that I had bought my last Kodak product, a DC290 digital camera in 2000, and wouldn't be buying another Kodak product ever.

[RightWingConspirator]

See post 108.

[Charles Martel]

Every time I look at my bread machine, I wonder why nobody has tried to build and market a film development device.

Polaroid did - sort of. Back in the '80s, they came out with a 35mm color slide film and a developing kit, which contained a hand-cranked apparatus which applied emulsion to the film while protecting it from light. There was a cutting tool and a supply of standard-sized slide frames in the box, too. Surprisingly, the film was still available until recently.

[George from New England]

I also boycott Kodak for this corporate policy reason.

I won't even use there print machines in local drug stores.