Kodak - a reflective moment

[richardcb]

Taking a moment out of our headlong rush into digital wonderment to feel sad about the news that Kodak has just filed for bankruptcy protection. Starting out in photography it literally defined my world. It was a colossus that lead and innovated - the Apple of its day? It seemed inconceivable it would ever not be around.

Now, suffering from years of mismanagement and bad decisions, it has been laid low. Hopefully it can still pull its irons out of the fire but it will never be the force in photography - the market it single-handedly created - it once was.

 

[klassklown0]

Taking a moment out of our headlong rush into digital wonderment to feel sad about the news that Kodak has just filed for bankruptcy protection. Starting out in photography it literally defined my world. It was a colossus that lead and innovated - the Apple of its day? It seemed inconceivable it would ever not be around.

Now, suffering from years of mismanagement and bad decisions, it has been laid low. Hopefully it can still pull its irons out of the fire but it will never be the force in photography - the market it single-handedly created - it once was.

Defined my teenage years of using the brownie and click and toss cameras. My Minolta sits gathering dust. Here's what I still have, gathering dust.

 

[AlyZen Moonshadow]

Defined my teenage years of using the brownie and click and toss cameras. My Minolta sits gathering dust. Here's what I still have, gathering dust.

You could sell those, Nancy, to collectors of antique cameras. They'd fetch a princely sum!

 

[klassklown0]

You could sell those, Nancy, to collectors of antique cameras. They'd fetch a princely sum!

Sad that I can't make my Minolta a digital camera

 

[M_A_N_E]

Nancy it's almost like a shrine to the beloved years of 35mm.

 

[klassklown0]

Nancy it's almost like a shrine to the beloved years of 35mm.

That sits in my cabinet.

 

[sdgareth]

a bit of a weird feeling when I think of "no more kodak"

 

[RoseCat]

a bit of a weird feeling when I think of "no more kodak"

Yeah...it is weird. I remember our instamatic with those square bulbs you snapped on top. I loved that camera.

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[sdgareth]

Yeah...it is weird. I remember our instamatic with those square bulbs you snapped on top. I loved that camera.

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yeah I remember those, could use it 4 times and then throw it away, used to give all those leaky light images

 

[richardcb]

yeah I remember those, could use it 4 times and then throw it away, used to give all those leaky light images

The leaky light images we now pay for apps to create.

 

[richardcb]

Yeah...it is weird. I remember our instamatic with those square bulbs you snapped on top. I loved that camera.

Oh my, Flashcubes - a flash of light and a smell of burning plastic! Did you go beyond the Instamatic into 110 film cameras and the dreaded Kodak Disc Camera?

 

[sdgareth]

The leaky light images we now pay for apps to create.

So true Richard

 

[sdgareth]

Oh my, Flashcubes - a flash of light and a smell of burning plastic! Did you go beyond the Instamatic into 110 film cameras and the dreaded Kodak Disc Camera?

I remember my Dad had one, also the cameras with fold up bellows and Polaroid that spat the image out the front.

 

[sdgareth]

Don't think I ever seen a disc camera. My old man had that huge heavy 8mm silent movie camera, still got the reel of footage

 

[lisamjw]

Yeah...it is weird. I remember our instamatic with those square bulbs you snapped on top. I loved that camera.

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Oh, I do too! A true passing of an era.

 

[klassklown0]

Cat reminded me of the cameras my mom had that had the square flashbulbs

 

[RoseCat]

yeah I remember those, could use it 4 times and then throw it away, used to give all those leaky light images

Oh right, it would twirl!! And you get one flash per side of the cube! Totally forgot that...

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[RoseCat]

Oh my, Flashcubes - a flash of light and a smell of burning plastic! Did you go beyond the Instamatic into 110 film cameras and the dreaded Kodak Disc Camera?

YES!!!! I had some weird camera with 110 film and that's what I brought with me on my 2 month backpacking trip to Europe! Never had the Disc camera tho.

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[richardcb]

An honest-to-gosh Flashcube and genuine Kodak Disc Camera. They did exist!

 

[klassklown0]

An honest to gosh Flashcube and genuine Kodak Disc Camera. They did exist!

I don't have any cubes left. I have the click and toss.

 

[RoseCat]

An honest-to-gosh Flashcube and genuine Kodak Disc Camera. They did exist!

Cool!!

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