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Photokina 2016: Fujifilm Interview

Fujifilm chose last month's Photokina tradeshow as the venue to launch its new flagship mirrorless camera, the medium-format GFX 50S. At the show, we sat down with Toshihisa Iida, Fujifilm's General Manager of the Sales and Marketing Group and Toru Takahashi, Director, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Fujifilm's Optical Device & Electronic Imaging Products Divisonto talk about the 50S, and why Fujifilm chose to skip full-frame.

Photokina 2016: Fujifilm Interview

How fake images change our memory and behaviour

The year was a memorable one – looking back at the unforgettable images over the past 12 months, you might think of apocalyptic-looking clouds over Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy, or Mitt Romney’s children mistakenly standing in a line spelling out the word “MONEY”, or even the winning US Powerball lottery ticket that became the most shared picture on Facebook. There’s only one problem. All these images are fake.

How fake images change our memory and behaviour.

NASA: Saturn from below

Life After Digital

Well, they took our Kodachrome away, but traditional silver halide photography continues to thrive even with Kodak in chapter 11 and restructuring. This is an interesting point of view from a great store and great supplier of traditional photographic materials in Los Angeles.

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Please don't take my Kodachrome away

As a long time photographer who was a loyal Kodachrome user but who used every other type of film but always returned to his Kodachrome standard, I was devastated when Kodak decided to end its production of Kodachrome film a few years ago. As I scan my archives, there is no film that has the archival permanenance of Kodachrome. Its beauty and its permanence was unequaled by any film available including the competing films from Kodak such a Ectachrome.

The second shoe has dropped and now it seems that kodak itself is about to enter chapter 11 which would have a devastating effect on legacy film processing. No more Tri-X, no more D-76, no more Xtol. What are we to do?

Kodak prepares for Chapter 11 filing: report