Kodak dropping film

[Lisa]

The company that started amature photography over a century ago with the Brownie camera is dropping film to concentrate on digital photography. All I can say is WOW. I cut my teeth on a 110 kodak camera using kodak film.

[Swampwalker]

Nikon is not going to produce film cameras anymore either. I believe Kodak said they are going to stop making film cameras, I haven't heard anything about them not making film anymore.

[NewLineReptile]

My wife use to work for Qulex canada that is run by Kodak and they shut down 5 labs out of 8 in Canada because of them thinking they were going to stop making film so now there are only 3 qulex labs in Canada I wonder what will hapen to them as all they do is develop film

[Lisa]

My mistake, it's just film camera's that they're dropping but you can also bet the types of film available will slowly dwindle to just a few basic ones.

[JuliusSqueezer]

It's all people like me's fault LOL...I'm a professional photographer and I haven't used film in 2 years. I've gone all digital...it's just too versatile and having no lab bill is a definite plus. Most jobs I do now, I just burn the images to a CD on site or in studio and let people go print their own prints where ever they want to. I sold all my film cameras on Ebay and a good bit of the stuff went overseas. I noticed a lot of other photographers selling off photo equipment too with the..."don't need it anymore...gone digital" excuse.

[Derrick]

lol kodak cameras are crappy anyway. I hadnt heard about nikon going strictly digital that would be too bad. You got the press release for that Swampwalker???

[Lisa]

Film is dead, you can see the progress in the movie industry, we see going from 8mm film to electric analog beta/vhs/8mm tape to pure digital. Look at episode 2- attack of the clones, it was shot digitaly and only released digitaly. With music we went from vinyal, to tape to cdrom. The same thing is happening with still cameras except we are skipping the analog tape stage.
We are at the point where we have affordable digital cameras that rival the quality of a 4X6 print or better.
While I have good memories of playing in the darkroom and I'm not sure which part was more fun, taking the pics or developing them.
Film is dead, long live film.

[Derrick]

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[Vengeance]

Yea, my father works for Canada Press and all their photographers use digital only. Been that way for a few years now, kinda sucks for me though, I used to get free film :P

[Removed_2815]

Originally posted by Lisa
Film is dead, long live film.
Er?

[JuliusSqueezer]

I miss the smell of my darkroom ....hours and hours of red light and then squinting when walking back into the real world. But now, the computer and photoshop is my darkroom and for years, I argued that digital would never equal print film quality...and it didn't....it far surpassed it in my opinion. I held out because I refused to pay 20 thousand US dollars for a digital SLR...but then Nikon made the D100 for about 1/10 that and I was able to purchase a 6.1 megapixel SLR for $2000 (I think the body is down to about 1400 now) and outfit it with everything I want and need for right at a total of $5000. It still sounds like a lot of money but there have been times when I spent at least half that much on film and printing over a 2 month period and I can still print huge prints without pixelation...no worries with grain or scratched negatives...I can easily edit anything that accidently got in the shot that I didn't want ...with a 1 gig microdrive, I can shoot 284 frames at the highest resolution without reloading anything...I can still hook it to studio lighting and use every manual control that any Film camera had plus some including, shutterspeeds, aperature, even ISO...and the ISO thing is really cool because I can change that between shots where with a film camera you have to either use another camera or change film ....I hate to see anything totally die out like film is bound to do someday, but...I'll never go back.

[meow_mix450]

well ya its so much easyer, these days with digital, dont have to wait for the film to develop at the store, with digital you can detle ,pick the pictures you want and print them. but i still use film i can affrd a really nice camera, it would be nice if i got a 6.5 mega pixel camerea heh:)

Meow

[Lisa]

Julius: I miss the chemical smell of the darkroom too. all the figeting with exposure times to get the perfect print, the aloneness, cost of chemicals, paper...

Meow Mix: the cost of film and developing can probably pay for a camera alone.

[reptiguy123]

I miss the taste of the chemicals...but not the feeling afterwards!