• kreskin@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        I think they are boomers instead of millennials. I think for them its great depression stuff, like have you tried eating cat food for protein and growing onions in your garden.

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    12 days ago

    Kodak has been circling the drain for decades. I’m shocked they’ve lasted this long.

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      A Kodak engineer invented the first digital camera in 1975. They had their chance, and chose to keep on with collecting money for film. For 50 years.

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        What’s ludicrous is they monopolized the film industry in the interim and yet they still couldn’t make a go of it?

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          Same with the auto industry. King of the world for decades. 2008? O noes we broke, handouts plz.

          Executive management is a gross joke.

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    Really sad, but as someone said, they had their chance at digital and blew it.

    Along those lines, they were also interested in:

    Neutron imaging

    Starting decades ago, Kodak had an interest in neutrons, subatomic particles that can be used to determine the makeup of a given material or to create an image of it without damaging it.

    A steady stream of neutrons is needed for these purposes. Kodak used small research reactors, including one at Cornell University, and possessed a dollop of californium-252, a radioactive isotope that endlessly sheds neutrons.

    But it wanted a more potent in-house system, so in 1974 it acquired a californium neutron flux multiplier, known as a CFX. Small plates of highly enriched uranium multiplied the neutron flow from a tiny californium core.

    Kodak used it to check chemicals and other materials for impurities, Filo said. It also was used for tests related to neutron radiography, an imaging technique.

    The device was not much larger than a refrigerator and, in the one available photo, looked vaguely like Robby the Robot from a 1950s science fiction movie. To house it, Kodak dug a cavity below the basement level of Building 82, part of the company’s research complex along Lake Avenue.

    Did you know? Kodak Park had a nuclear reactor

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      11 days ago

      I wonder if that photograph is fuzzy because of radiation, or because of the quality of cameras at the time.

      Hopefully that photographer ended up okay

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    film is having a little renaissance, i’ve seen other brands selling more 35mm rolls than Kodak, despite their fame, maybe they’ll buy the name

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      Yeah, the tricky thing about the “analog” Renaissance is the folks going for film cameras, typewrites, vinyl, and so on are looking for higher-quality equipment, rather than “mass market” stuff. Kodak could plausibly rebrand itself to appeal to this crowd.