Monday saw a press release from Kodak announcing that the iconic Kodachrome film is to be discontinued.
Ok, it's a sad announcement (some people swear by its colour reproduction and its archival qualities), but I take umbrage at the way in which it has been reported!
If you watch the TV reports or read the news articles, the death of Kodachrome has almost universally been attributed to 'the increase of digital photography'. This is not so.
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Submitted by namcom on Wed, 24/06/2009 - 10:01
Wow. There's an awful lot of people seemingly upset by The Polaroid Corporation's recent decision to stop making their eponymous film.
Check out www.savepolaroid.com.
Of course, the current Polaroid Corp. has pretty much nothing to do with the original corporation; the current company being much more interested in slapping their coloured squares onto any number of consumer electronic devices than their traditional analogue imaging processes.
Ironically, Polaroid could well be making the biggest mistake ever. Recent reports seem to indicate that the rush to digital imaging is being stemmed, and consumers are returning to film, whether for
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Submitted by namcom on Wed, 19/03/2008 - 15:09
