January 13, 2004

Digital Revolution Complete

This is a telltale sign that the digital revolution is over. The company that basically invented the camera for popular photography will no longer sell film cameras, limiting its product line to digital devices. Kodak to Stop Selling Traditional Cameras in U.S. [YahooNews.com]. That's a major sea-change in the digitization of America and, in all likelihood, the end of a brand that was once synonymous with photography itself. Polaroid went bankrupt when 1-hour photo shops made their instant prints obsolete, and now even Kodachrome itself is largely a thing of the past.

 Posted by glenn

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