Near the end of last year, Eastman Kodak Eastman reportedly explored selling off or licensing its vast portfolio of patents
in order to stave off bankruptcy. This is after the 100-year-old-plus company shuttered its film factories.
David Bennett
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Film cameras, which have been pushed aside by our need for all things convenient, efficient, and disposable, now have gone
the way of tape cassette recorders and gasoline carburetors.
Still, it's a good chance that if you're a longtime traveler, you once packed a film camera in your bag before embarking on
an assignment, especially those assignments where fun could be found. Like the time you successfully limboed on a Hawaiian
beach while balancing an umbrella drink, or that point of rapture when you caught a rainbow trout on that weekend excursion
in Idaho.
Even if these experiences aren't in your memory bank, the chance that you used a Kodak film camera at one time to capture
a slice of life is a good bet. It could have been a bar mitzvah, high school graduation, sweet 16 birthday party, wedding anniversary, summer vacation, or
family reunion.
Once the drug store converted the negatives into prints, they were just the ticket to wax nostalgic when your friends and
family visited.
Even loading up the Kodachrome film rather than a memory card seemed more personal somehow. The very act of loading the camera
and selecting the best light source was an experience onto itself.
Even if Kodak disappears entirely, it doesn't mean that we will cease collecting memories. It just means we'll capture them
digitally. However, it raises the question: In our quest to embrace convenience, efficiency, and disposability, have we lost
out on something along the way?
Anyway, your next trip to South Carolina's South of the Border beckons. And, don't forget to collect some images to share.
David Bennett
Senior Editor
dbennett@advanstar.com
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