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Guy Taylor, Jr.
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posted October 06, 2016 04:27 PM

Kodak just put a mysterious post on Facebook stating "A classic is born. Again" Coming October 20th.

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Evan Samaras
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posted October 06, 2016 04:55 PM

From my understanding this post was related to the release of a new smart phone

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Guy Taylor, Jr.
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posted October 06, 2016 05:02 PM

Wishful thinking on my part. We are, of course, in the final quarter of the year and they said 2016.

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Tom Spielman
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posted October 06, 2016 05:06 PM

There was a tweet to a phone related twitter account that Kodak has but it was deleted. I think one or two people speculated that it might mean a new phone and now there's all kinds of posts saying that Kodak is releasing a new phone. No one would consider Kodak's previous entry into the phone market to qualify as a "classic" so I suspect that's not it.

Maybe I'm not quite old enough remember but I don't know if any of Kodak's super 8 cameras could be considered classics either. Kodachrome is definitely a classic, but whatever it is apparently has a button. [Wink]

Kind of exciting.

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Guy Taylor, Jr.
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posted October 06, 2016 05:17 PM

Classic in the fact that Kodak invented Super 8. Fingers crossed. I think this is it. Let's just hope for a release of color reversal film from the "Yellow Giant".

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Tom Spielman
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posted October 06, 2016 05:32 PM

Given the design of the camera and their proposed processing and scanning service, it seems unlikely that there will be a new reversal film but we can always hope.

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Evan Samaras
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posted October 06, 2016 05:53 PM

I'm hoping it's the camera myself!

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Peter Harrison
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posted October 06, 2016 08:57 PM

For color reversal the current work and progress of Film Ferrania is cause to celebrate (among the optimists at least).

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