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October 27, 2003
Bye, Bye Slides??
From Monday's Boston Globe. Eastman Kodak has said that they will cease making slide projectors in July 2004. New purchases of slide projectors has dropped dramatically as more people use videotape, CD-Roms or the Internet to present slide shows of visual material.
As more classrooms are equipped with video projectors the audience for new purchases of projectors has dropped. Apparently, few consumers bore their neighbors with slide shows of their vacations anymore either, according to sales figures quoted in the Globe story. While digital scanning and presentations can be effective and may, ultimately, be easier to run, at what cost? Will we lose our appreciation of the crisp color and reproductive quality of slides as we become accustomed to the inferior, but passable, quality of jpegs?
A Projector Slides off Into the Sunset
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at October 27, 2003 12:35 PM
Comments
Now they've announced that they will also cease to make analog film cameras. They are even discontinuing the Advantix (sp?) line of cameras. Amazing, that in only a few short years this circa 1996 cutting-edge technology is already considered obsolete by its makers.
Of course Kodak will continue making 35mm and Advantix film.
Posted by: eleanor at January 16, 2004 01:03 PM