p.1 #4 · Whatever happened to the promise of the future?
Ignore that stuff. We had another very good year.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Eastman Kodak Co., despite $564 million in after-tax charges to settle litigation with rival photography power Polaroid Corp., closed 1990 with sharply higher profits of $703 million, boosted by fourth-quarter earnings of $326 million.
p.1 #5 · Whatever happened to the promise of the future?
Desmolicious wrote:
This is really cool. I somehow missed it when you posted it earlier. I had a Sony floppy disk camera and also used disposable film cameras many times in the past. It's wild what 40 years can do, and that was during a time when tech was still moving in a mostly linear way.
Now imagine that same span of time with today's exponential pace of change. It gets a little surreal pretty fast.
I hope we're still out there shooting with proper still cameras in 5 to 10 years. But honestly, there's also a decent chance we'll be the "weird grandpas" clinging to old school gear while everything else has moved on.
Maybe film ends up coming back even stronger for people trying to push back against digital and AI, especially if things start feeling a bit too crazy...
p.1 #6 · Whatever happened to the promise of the future?
Fred Miranda wrote:
This is really cool. I somehow missed it when you posted it earlier. I had a Sony floppy disk camera and also used disposable film cameras many times in the past. It's wild what 40 years can do, and that was during a time when tech was still moving in a mostly linear way.
Now imagine that same span of time with today's exponential pace of change. It gets a little surreal pretty fast.
I hope we're still out there shooting with proper still cameras in 5 to 10 years. But honestly, there's also a decent chance we'll be the "weird grandpas" clinging to old school gear while everything else has moved on.
Maybe film ends up coming back even stronger for people trying to push back against digital and AI, especially if things start feeling a bit too crazy......Show more →
There are more still pictures being taken today than ever before. I guess, as you say, there is a question about whether people will just use their phones or will want something better at imaging.
I think the form factor of real cameras has to compete with the convenience of phones and to begin to offer more of the computational ease of iPhones. And at least some real cameras have to appeal to people who want to make the best pictures possible.
I do think the love of photography is very durable and won't go away. There is something about capturing a slice of reality as it unfolds in a fraction of a second, and at a specific moment in time, and then being able to hold it there in your hand forever, seeing it in a way that it would never otherwise be seen.
p.1 #13 · Whatever happened to the promise of the future?
Desmolicious wrote:
So, like with all cameras?
Not exactly. You had to find the right subject at relatively spaced distances, but still the prints never looked that good to me.
Perhaps some of it was the contrast or my eye-brain 3D mapping function, though my eyes were excellent back then.
Did you like the NIMSLO prints?
p.1 #14 · Whatever happened to the promise of the future?
EB-1 wrote:
Not exactly. You had to find the right subject at relatively spaced distances, but still the prints never looked that good to me.
Perhaps some of it was the contrast or my eye-brain 3D mapping function, though my eyes were excellent back then.
Did you like the NIMSLO prints?
EBH
Were those w the weird plastic ribbed coating? If so, no.
