O Kodak!
Today in the shadow of the soon-to-be-bankrupt corporate headquarters pictured above, my father told me this story — How Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975: "A Kodak engineer credited with inventing the digital camera has revealed how bewildered company executives couldn’t understand why anyone would ever want to look at images on a TV screen when he first proposed the idea of a ‘filmless camera’ to them in 1975."
Labels: America the Beautiful, nology, Rachacha, Technology, The Dismal Science
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Paul Simon - Kodachrome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po
"When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of education
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away "
Sic transit gloria mundi
Amen. I hate to see such a local benefactor on the verge of collapse. I regret every role of Fuji film I bought over the years.
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