The article largely centres around speculation regarding Flash but given Microsoft's rather lacklustre forays into digital imaging it isn't too far out of whack to wonder if they may be going after Adobe's software and development staff.
Posted by Ramamohan Pai on October 8, 2010 at 12:14 AM
Interesting. I don't know what it would mean to folks like us who use Photoshop. I only hope something like this does not happen Your Clone Tool is not responding. If the problem persists, restart your computer.
Posted by Jim DeWitt on October 8, 2010 at 12:35 AM
OK, Kodak and Fiji, get ready to re-introduce film so we won't need software for image making!
Posted by Mel Ladewig on October 11, 2010 at 8:20 PM
Kodak and Fuji have been there the whole time.
Kodak has released Ektar 100, and updated Portra 400NC and then replaced both 400NC and 400VC with the new Portra 400 in the last 2-3 years. They keep making the color neg films easier and better to scan. Portra 400NC went through a significant reduction in grain size and the new Portra 400 is supposed to be even finer than HD400 and the latest Portra 400NC. They also made some improvements in the TMax line of B&W films. On the other hand, they've been trimming their E-6 line and killed off Kodachrome (I just sent in my last three rolls). When they killed off Kodachrome they recommend E100GX as a replacement, then discontinued that before the ink was dry on the Kodachrome announcement. Shame as E100GX was an excellent film. They've reduced all boxes of sheet film to 10 packs for most stuff.
Fuji hasn't been doing so much lately. They went through a major revamp on their slide films a long while back, but lately have just spent their time pissing of large format photographers by removing useful products from the market (quickloads), repackaging, and converging film lines with no improvement and generally sending out confusing information. Their Fujichrome line is excellent, but there is always room for improvement.
They sure have Mel, but have you seen any advertising really promoting the value of film? Not likely since the quality of digital has easily surpassed film in most regards. Oh yeah, not too many labs that offer processing like they used to (my pro lab still does, though) and the availability of chemicals, geez, don't you worry about the terrorists watch list once you purchase them and have them shipped through the mail? We can only hope! To the good old days...
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Kodak has released Ektar 100, and updated Portra 400NC and then replaced both 400NC and 400VC with the new Portra 400 in the last 2-3 years. They keep making the color neg films easier and better to scan. Portra 400NC went through a significant reduction in grain size and the new Portra 400 is supposed to be even finer than HD400 and the latest Portra 400NC. They also made some improvements in the TMax line of B&W films. On the other hand, they've been trimming their E-6 line and killed off Kodachrome (I just sent in my last three rolls). When they killed off Kodachrome they recommend E100GX as a replacement, then discontinued that before the ink was dry on the Kodachrome announcement. Shame as E100GX was an excellent film. They've reduced all boxes of sheet film to 10 packs for most stuff.
Fuji hasn't been doing so much lately. They went through a major revamp on their slide films a long while back, but lately have just spent their time pissing of large format photographers by removing useful products from the market (quickloads), repackaging, and converging film lines with no improvement and generally sending out confusing information. Their Fujichrome line is excellent, but there is always room for improvement.